"R U TRIGGERED" and all its subvariants were radioactive toxic waste and turned a valid and important psychological concept into bullying vector that for a time had nearly universal acceptance.
I still see vestiges of "le epic bacon" out there but it's mostly confined to aging :grillman: types and some :up-yours-woke-moralists: cultists and a few contrarian carninist edgelords that want to "trigger the vegans." Yes I know all of the above have a lot of overlap.
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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 admit that I use it too sometimes, and for probably the same reasons most who use it do: it's so absurd and vapid a statement that it's just a way to dress up "I am frustrated with how things are going in general."
I thought it was the opposite of Thatcher's "There's no such thing as a society, there are individuals and there are families" or some such nonsense
That'd be a good thing in that case; it'd mean people saying "fuck you, Thatcher. We aren't isolated consumer units in a vacuum, we have to function together somehow."
I still find that funny, especially when someone makes fanart of another character looking like the joker
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.