Its similar to ‘as per my last email’ actually meaning: “I literally already answered the question you are asking, learn how to read you fucking moron.”

I read some scientific paper that used language like that to absolutely chew out a particular theory (I believe it was the presence of an Afro-Asiatic linguistic substrate in Europe) and it was fun to read

Meme culture is out of control. This is a compassionate way for a writer to acknowledge they also made the same assumption before the data forced them to reconsider it.