"You look nice today". This habit of saying horribly false compliments to the user is an awful trend that is affecting programmers everywhere.
See https://www.npmjs.com/login, for example.
See https://www.npmjs.com/login, for example.
you look lovely today, btw.
you need help
At least Slack rotates through a few different sayings that tend to be goofy instead of creepy - and you can change them.
This stuff has been around for a long time, it's just cheekier now. Ever install a Windows app and the last setup page says, "Congratulations! You have successfully installed $APP." Congratulations? For what? You congratulate people for an achievement. Are you saying that it was an achievement on my part to successfully install your app? Was the more likely outcome that I would fail to install it? :-0
Hilarious.
Well, I think all these things are suspicious and maybe (I don't know) even bad in nature, but they have levels of badness, "you look lovely today, btw" is considerably worse than any form of birthday congratulations -- although I'm also suspicious of the second, which, here in Brazil, is a little more common thing to say than "happy birthday" (people just say "congratulations!").
It'll get good and comforting soon enough..
Makes me cringe SO HARD every time. Why are we telling people they're amazing for existing? Haven't we identified the issue with much of today's youth is that their egos were often overinflated by their parents, teachers, etc, leading to problems of entitlement and whatever else that entails?
I'm not sure why you're confused -- is it because things aren't the way that you think they should be? To me, the explanation above is pretty concise and fits the situation neatly.
This probably comes off as looking the gift horse in the mouth but at some point it does come off as excessive, like when I get bum rushed to be helped the second I look at a product in a department store.
But on the NPM site I think it's different, it's a joke. It says "you look lovely today, btw". That's clearly mockery/irony. The help section is headed "you need help", for example.