Yes it is real:

https://twitter.com/SDSUCR/status/1324419964544053248

  • lvysaur [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    oh, didn't know it was from the office, but knew it was a dumb reddit thing

    IMO repeating dumb reddit things brainlessly like that is inherently fascist because you also repeat the other stuff they say

    • No_Values [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Ah I see, I just see it so often these days that it seems conceivable the people writing it and by extension those reading it; don't realize they are making a joke/reference and believe they are using the phrase in the 'correct' way, and when it is used in an otherwise 'serious' comment/post it can be quite jarring

      • lvysaur [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Ah I see, I just see it so often these days that it seems conceivable the people writing it and by extension those reading it; don’t realize they are making a joke/reference

        Yeah but do people really not know the phrase "how the tables have turned"?

        • No_Values [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          You would have assumed so, but a lot of kids are pretty much raised on the internet so it would not surprise me that there are a lot of people out there who do not, and I've seen it used where a joke clearly wasn't intended, I also think it's been repeated so much that some who know better have in internalized it so much they use it without realizing

          • lvysaur [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            but alot of kids are pretty much raised on the internet

            Paul Krugman is a ghoul but I wish he was right sometimes

            imagine entire generations of kids raised on reddit

            • No_Values [none/use name]
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              4 years ago

              Unimaginable horror

              at least they're would be a sub group of kids banned from reddit and raised on ChaCha