Is it because people feel special advertising that they're part of some elite/secret ring of true knowledge sharers? Literally if the phrase was excluded, it's factualness would still be true.
Basically, I find people who say "IYKYK" to commonly be completely insufferable performance artists.
Can you imagine complaining about being fired from a company after publicly declaring that you were abandoning its product and that you preferred their competitor's product?
Same Twitter employee today (November 4): furiously posting on Twitter about having gotten fired from Twitter.
Karma?
Ref:
- https://twitter.com/ruchowdh/status/1583518479210393600
- https://twitter.com/ruchowdh