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Surely you mean: Em dashes aren’t an actual tell IMO — many people use them.

Maybe he isn't one but has a close friend who is? That would describe me.

Em dashes aren’t an actual tell IMO: many people use them.

There are dozens of us!

— dozens!

It is though if the rest of the prose is trash.

Jokes on you—humans write trash all the time.