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About
/r/LinkedInLunatics or LinkedIn Lunatics is a subreddit dedicated to gathering bizarre, cringeworthy, sociopathic and humorous content from the business and employment-focused social media platform LinkedIn. Content posted in the subreddit, which was created in late 2019, has repeatedly gone viral online as was shared on other social platforms.
History
On October 1st, 2019, Redditor Kerbal27 launched /r/LinkedInLunatics,[1] a subreddit dedicated to collecting cringeworthy, sociopathic, humorous and bizarre content posted by users on the employment-centered social media website LinkedIn.
Scroll through LinkedIn and you will find a mix of rampant virtue signaling, cringeworthy titles, and stories that could come from r/thathappened. This subreddit is for sharing and discussing these LinkedIn characters.
The subreddit experienced slow but steady growth in the first year and a half, reaching 10,000 followers by mid-March 2021.[2] The subreddit reached 100,000 followers by June 2022 and had over 540,000 followers as of early June 2024.
On April 9th and 27th, 2021, the subreddit[3][4] had two of its earliest viral posts, submitted by Redditor Looking4OpposingView and an unknown user. The posts (shown below, left and right) garnered over 27,000 upvotes and 18,000 upvotes in three years, respectively.
Features
The /r/LinkedInLunatics subreddit is used to collect LinkedIn posts that stand out in a certain way, be it humor, virtue signaling, promoting grind culture or a poster's perceived lack of connection with reality (examples[5][6] shown below).
Over the years, the subreddit developed a set of in-jokes that mock the way people often compose LinkedIn posts, such as ending the post with the open questions "Thoughts?" or "Agree?"
Highlights
Here's What It Taught Me About B2B Enterprise Sales
Here's What It Taught Me About B2B Sales refers to a viral satirical LinkedIn post in which a user described seven things about B2B sales his proposal to his girlfriend supposedly taught him. The post went viral across social media in late April and early May 2024, inspiring parody memes using it as a catchphrase.
Traffic
As of early June 2024, the /r/LinkedInLunatics subreddit had over 540,000 followers.
Various Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1] Reddit – /r/LinkedInLunatics
[2] Subreddit Stats – /r/LinkedInLunatics
[3] Reddit – Work from Home is old news, Work from ICU is the new trend
[4] Reddit – Finally, some honesty.
[5] Reddit – Poor Singapore, they're forgetting culture is more important than money!
[6] Reddit – 'i’M oN vACaTiOn bUt WiTh A hOtEl LoBbY sO nIcE, HoW cAn I nOt WoRk?' 😜🥴🤡🤪🙃
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