Yes it is real:

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

  • 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