They were attempting to use a meme acronym sarcastically -- an example of content-free commenting that works well for karma elsewhere but hopefully doesn't gain a foothold here.
On topic, I agree with your amplification of your point.
I guess while syntactic sugar is usually considered a functionality of the language itself, it surely is used in the way I meant it, too... random search result:
They were attempting to use a meme acronym sarcastically -- an example of content-free commenting that works well for karma elsewhere but hopefully doesn't gain a foothold here.
On topic, I agree with your amplification of your point.