Brain Rot โ€” a fruit fly brain rates your LinkedIn post

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๐Ÿฌ Sugar โ€” humblebrags, "let that sink in", "Agree?", hashtags, one-line paragraphs, origin stories, the word "journey". Goes to the fly's sugar-sensing neurons. Sugar makes the tongue come out.

๐Ÿงช Bitter โ€” numbers, percentages, long sentences, real paragraphs, "because", "however", specifics like churn or a termination clause. Goes to all 65 bitter-sensing neurons. Bitter keeps the tongue in.

๐Ÿ‘ƒ Smell โ€” delve, tapestry, testament, pivotal, leverage, "it's not X, it's Y", em dashes, rules of three. Goes in through the antennae. Too much and the whole brain runs away with itself.

๐Ÿ‘‚ Hearing โ€” SHOUTING, exclamation marks!!!, "LET'S GOOO". Goes to the auditory neurons in the antennae.

๐Ÿ‘ Sight โ€” emoji, bullet points, arrows, ticks. Goes to 800 photoreceptors. The optic lobes light up. The fly sees your post. It does not read it.