Unpopular Opinion:

I didn't wake up one day and decide to write a song about LinkedIn. It built up, scroll after scroll, watching one content format explode across LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok at the same time, powered by the same AI tools everyone suddenly had. What got me wasn't the volume. It was how good everyone suddenly became at "being vulnerable" in the exact same handful of formats: "Unpopular Opinion:", "Unsolicited advice", "Hot take", "POV:". Pick an opener, insert crisis, insert lesson, post. The colon in the title isn't a typo. It's the literal opener people are using. Being in Bulgaria makes it worse. It's a small market, so when a format lands, half your network repeats it within a month. And what really makes me cringe is watching people translate these posts into Bulgarian instead of localising them. Not adapting the idea to how people here actually talk, just running it through a translator and posting it as their own voice. "Forty seven thoughts" is a dig at something I keep spotting in AI text: the number 47. "At 2:47am." "47 people showed up." The models seem to have a favourite fake-precise number, and once you notice it you can't stop. (I've caught it in my own catalogue too. I'm not claiming immunity.) The AI verse came straight from my inbox. In two weeks I got somewhere between ten and fifteen cold emails opening with "Hi {first_name}... just kidding :D". Different senders, presumably different tools, the exact same bit. Nobody checked whether the joke was worn out before hitting send. Phonk started as pure instinct. I like phonk. It only made sense afterwards: these posts have always smelled a bit funky to me, in the musty, slightly off sense of the word. My brain got from "funky" to "phonk" before I'd consciously decided anything, and the techno grit went on top.

LSLachezar, writing songs so you don't have to cry alone