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It's a colloquialism of Internet denizens that I've seen floating around for many years. In fact it's somewhat baffling to me that you haven't seen it until now.
I was saying I see it everywhere?
Right, my bad. I guess I'm hinting at your comment needing a bit of a massage until it says what you mean. My suspicion is you actually just don't like the turn of phrase, not that you don't get why it's used, right? Which is perfectly fine yo.
Hell, the way you phrased not liking something as "not getting it' and yor statement just now with the "?" At the end of it are both standard interwebby colloquialisms.
Not fighting, just saying
Well like other people were saying, there's a trend of people posting this prompt, and then others responding with funny answers. You're right, I don't like it when people use the same formulation in response to a comment. I also don't get why people are doing it, for the same reason: I don't think it's funny, and it doesn't really add anything to the conversation.
Usually memes are funny because there's a familiar pattern and then people riff on the pattern and make little unexpected tweaks. The type of usage I don't like and don't get is when people are just saying "you're this" in a more wordy way. It has the form of a joke with no punchline.
I get what you're saying bout the repetitiveness of the way people communicate. Someone it can feel like a bunch of LLMs slapping together the same 10-15 lines together to mimic speech.
I attemt to say things in different ways and have a "voice" you can hear to fight this repetitiveness, and out of sheer boredom towards the ways things are commonly said. THAT said I'm "guilty" of using memespeech too, and if course it can be clever shorthand to convey feeling if used properly.
Dunno where I'm going with this but i do feel ya.
Personally I think this was a good use of the phrase. I was thinking it already when I read it. Good comment.