And I Cannot Stress This Enough

About

And I Cannot Stress This Enough is a emphatic phrase used in a sentence to label a point extremely important subject. The phrase has been used for centuries but in 2019 the phrase became used over-exaggerate something or create anticipation for comedic effect.

Origin

On November 23rd, 2000, BelMarduck posted a query on a Wordsmith^[1] forum using the phrase marking on of the earliest use of the phrase online. On June 17th, 2008, Twitter user @sharilyn^[2] was the first to use the phrase on Twitter by saying, "seriously, people, and i cannot stress this enough: there is no crying in the newsroom" (shown below).

Spread

On May 19th, 2019, Redditor chris-guy uploaded a video using the caption "Yee, and I cannot stress this enough, yaw" of men with cowboy hats on catching fire to r/instantregret.^[3] The post gained over 5,300 points (98% upvoted) in four months. On August 23rd, Redditor Chanzy94 posted an unusual screenshot of a Facebook thread to r/insanepeoplefacebook^[4] with the caption. "What, and I cannot stress this enough, the fuck?!" (shown below).

In August 2019, Twitter users began using the phrase often creating a trend in which people began adding the phrase to quotes or other popular phrases. Many celebrities began to join in on Twitter. On September 8th, Patton Oswalt^[5] and Elijah Wood^[6] both posted short tweets using the phrase (shown below). Their tweets accumulated over 2,000 and 300 likes respectively in a week.

Various Examples

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