Depends on the context. They can be in literature and serious publications, because a double hyphen is a kick in the eyes and not a substitute. It's also pretty common to see in some forums online with pretentious people that mastered remembering its ALT code (0151) and want to show off. But it's something LLMs picked up and abuse (even if sometimes it's better at punctuation than most people), and is an obvious hint a post may not be written by a real person in part or full.
Nobody writes this shit seriously outside school to pad their assignments. But those models really like to spew that gibberish.
I'm going to spit them ever finer. On iOS, as I mentioned, when you write
word--word you get word—word with an em-dash, but if you write word -- word (note the spaces) you get word–word with an en-dash. You can find people searching for how to turn off the auto-punctuation em-dash feature to this very day.
I've not noticed this so good to know. I am wondering if Reddit's markdown converts the double dash -- to an em/en-dash as well. I tend to be a bit hasty and see AI everywhere because I've met far too many people who are too lazy to write stuff out themselves any more.
On my Android phone (Samsung, more specifically), I can just long-click on the hyphen key to type en-dashes and em-dashes instead of hyphens. You do have to go out of your way to long-click, so I'm pretty sure it doesn't happen automatically, but the option is still there and pretty easy to use if you actually know about it. There's also the option to add up to 10 custom characters on the period long-click, and you can choose to add en-dashes and em-dashes there, too.
Manchester is not unique in this trend. It has become very common for people to think public spaces are stages for them to record tik tok content. They will get angry with you if you suggest not putting the camera in your face and that you do not consent to being part of their tik tok show. The later is important because we're seeing a return of prank style videos where tik tokers will do things to annoy or harass random people so they can upload their reactions to tik tok.
This snarky 'quip' culture cancer is by far the worst thing to come out of R*ddit & social media as a whole. You might think it is contained there, but think again. I've seen college aged people squirt these turds out in the middle of class, to professors, out loud. Baffles me how they don't find it embarrassing. I'd rather pound sand into the eye of my dick than say something so childish in front of other people.
There's a whole lot I could say about this post, but
It's about Joshua from Final fantasy 16. He's the sick prince troupe and they think it makes him a faggot. It's got nothing to do with anime and wasn't hard to figure out.
That retard should just be threadbanned, or better yet, completely banned, entirely. His entire post history is just posting tweets and videos from somewhere else. He is a shill, not a person.
Works fine for me using old.reddit.com/r/letgirlshavefun
Stopped reading there. It's all males, right?
It is 100% all males roleplaying as pornstars from anime.
This decision has been reversed by the new mods:
>says it wasn't hard to figure out that it's about FF16