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My guess would be an ironic intentional misuse of the phrase that got out of hand.
Either "let us contemplate the utopian setting of fallout where everyone has the liberty to shoot anyone else at any time and there are robots and monsters and other cool things" or "can you believe this dystopian socialist vision where NOBODY is rich, we have to just feed everyone, and you can spend a night in jail for throwing pigs blood on a trans man who had an abortion?"
... Come to think of it, maybe the originating usage wasnt so much ironic as just ignorant.
~and yes I'm perfectly aware that what I described is probably satirical or sardonic rather than classical irony. Blame Alaniss Morissete~
This, more than likely
My little sister used to think "you couldn't have" meant "you could have" because she didn't get that I was being sarcastic with that phrase
Gen Z does overall does seem to have a lot more trouble understanding sarcasm than previous generations and I wonder where it came from. Too much communicating online rather than in person while growing up, maybe?
I think the world has just gotten less justifiably absurd.