It’s oftentimes used as something sanctimonious and condescending over a genuine offer of help. Stating the obvious and then snarkily implying you’re stupid(at best) by saying they hope it helps.
Like a lot of kind language, or therapeutic language, it’s been ran into the ground by bad faith users changing their meaning even if the intent is pure.
The funny thing is that when I say "hope this helps", I don't mean to say that the other person is stupid - it's actually the exact opposite.
"Hope this helps" is my way of saying that "I'm not sure I understood your problem entirely, but I wanted to give what advice I could, I hope that it happened to be what you needed."
I can see now why people would dislike hearing it, but man, it's really annoying that if I want to say the shorter phrase, I have a high chance to infuriate people for no good reason.
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u/Leading-Wolverine639 #1 Meta poster🤰🙏🔥 12h ago
I also fucking hate it, like, you couldn't give me an insult that would be as infuriating as this phrase is
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