Funny LinkedIn posts, decoded

How What Really Happened scores

Every post you decode right is worth 100 points. Right answers in a row pay 20 more each time, so the second pays 120 and the sixth pays 200. A wrong pick scores nothing and starts the count again. Six right in a row makes 900.

There’s no clock. Like Real or fake job titles, the game pays for a run of right answers, so read every post down to the hashtags.

On some days the round gets a twist, printed on the start panel before you play. Cut for length drops the line that starts “The short version”. One for the shredder leaves three options instead of four.

The daily six are the same for every player and turn over at your local midnight. A solo six, any time, skips today’s posts and the ones this browser showed you lately. Only the daily six earn merit toward your next job title, on days the game is on the shift.

How each post gets written

Each post starts as one plain sentence, such as “I was let go after a quarter that did not go to plan.” Our translator reads its words and picks one of 11 kinds of post, from the layoff post to the lunch post. Then it builds the post: a hook, a few one-line beats, a lesson, sometimes a sign-off, “Agree?” and three hashtags.

Most kinds have two hooks and two sets of beats, so one sentence can come out several ways. It’s the same machine that runs the LinkedIn speak translator, where it writes up your own news or turns a post back into plain English. The corporate bullshit generator builds its sentences from a fixed bank of words the same way.

The 220 events are made up, and so is everyone in them. Of the 660 wrong answers, 618 would come out as a different kind of post, and picking one tells you which kind. The other 42 would make the same kind of post about another relative or another small event.

Written for the feed

In March 2026 LinkedIn said it would show fewer posts built on engagement bait, and named “comment to agree” prompts as one kind. Every post the translator writes still closes with “Agree?” before the hashtags.

The same announcement said LinkedIn was reducing recycled posts. The translator recycles by design, with 22 hooks for 220 events.

The layoff post

In January 2025 LinkedIn said more than 220 million people had switched on its “open to work” setting, publicly or only for recruiters. Our layoff posts sign off the same way, with “open to work” or an offer to take DMs from anyone hiring.

No resignation post in the game has a layoff or a new job among its wrong answers, because a resignation post can hide either one.