The origin of the joke was making fun of self-important nerds who would type out banal and trite screeds about the kind of society we lived in like they were revealing some edgy profundity, the same kind of guys who identified with Heath Ledger's Joker. That so many of them started off with phrased like "We live in a society where" became just "we live in a society :joker-che: "

I still find that funny, especially when someone makes fanart of another character looking like the joker

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Pretty sure it was just making fun of people that thought that they were the Joker from the batman movies.

People who say it with any semblance of profundity are missing the simple joy of standing on a street corner and yelling it like George Costanza

It was funny to me because it reminded me of guys who post pictures of Literally Mes with some dumb quote next to it

I think it came from "we live in a society where XYZ thing happens" and then reactionaries cut off the last part to try to mock it, and then it got reappropriated through irony idk

I thought it was a reference to Thatcher's famous "And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families." quote.