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      It’s from a meme, “Money printer go brrrr” which was I think a spin off of the “It prints money!” meme for the original Wii (Edit: did some research and I think they’re unrelated.) Its the sound of the machine, printing money, it go brrr.

      I’ve seen it used for all kinds of things, but “go brrr” is basically a dismissive way of talking about how “winning” something is.

      Edit: I think Picard Manuever explains it better actually, and while I don’t think my usage note is untrue from how I’ve seen the meme used in evolutions, I’d have to agree that it originally and usually takes the form they described.

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      It’s just the sound of some machine running, but the meme is usually something along the lines of:

      “You can’t do X, you have to do Y!”

      “X goes brrrr”

      The humor is in stubbornly doing something in a dumb way.

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      Pretty sure it’s supposed to be the sound of a machine running. Most popular example I can think of is “haha money printer go brrr”.

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      It can also be a reference to the A-10 close air support fighter, whose main gun is notable for emitting a very loud brrrrrrrt sound.

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      It’s the sound of the A-10 Warthog’s main gun. It became a meme over a couple decades of war. “If brute force isn’t working, you’re not using enough of it,” kind of captures the gleeful power and arrogance.

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      The US government printed a lot of money after the 2008 financial crisis. Some people criticised this, saying it would devalue the US Dollar. But the government went ahead with the plan, resulting in a meme where critics bring up a lot of arguments and Obama (?) says ‘haha money printer go brr’.