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I think it's more like "grok"[0], where it's a weird little in-group signal that makes some small portion of people who read it cringe inwardly, but never becomes outdated because it never had a date in the first place.

[0] Which is functionally identical to "understand" whenever it's used, except 99% of the population has no goddamn idea what it means and 1% of the population can read the subtext that the person using who said it is a nerd



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