Back in the Abe administration, at first in an article on Hoshusokuho, one of those Livedoor Blog–type aggregator blogs, there was a story about an opposition lawmaker (probably either Renho or Shiori Yamao…)
Back during the Abe administration, at first in an article on the Livedoor blog–type aggregation blog Hoshusokuho (a right-wing news-summary blog), there was a memory that an opposition lawmaker (probably Renho or Shiori Yamao) used intense, big words like “(I can’t quite recall the preface, or rather, the drift or gist of the sentence feels hazy like it’s shrouded in mist) to be perfectly frank, this is abnormal!” and because the frenzied intensity and volume of those sentence-ending words were funny, it became an internet meme, and on Twitter and so on everyone held a composition contest where they’d append “to be perfectly frank, this is abnormal!” to the end of sentences, and it caught on.
This case is part of the Mandela Effect case database based on "The Window of Opportunity: A Guidepost to the Mandela Effect — The Ultra-Secret X-Files" by Aoyama Takuto.