If you are into videogames, you will more than probably have played Portal. The 2004 popular videogame by Valve. In this game, you are a test subject that has to follow GlaDOS instructions in order to complete a serie of puzzles in the Aperture Science laboratories by using the double portal Gun. The sarcastic robotic voice, encourages you to complete all the puzzles by promising you a delicious cake once you finish all of them.
As the game progresses, you can see messages of the previous test subjects writen in the walls telling you not tu trust this voice, such as this:
The funny thing is that after the games release, “the cake is a lie” was widely popular between Portal players, but soon it spread to forums and blogs where the phrase began to take on a new meaning outside of the context of the game. People were using the phrase, “The cake is a lie”, on forums as an idiom meaning, “You are chasing after an empty, unattainable goal.” This mean that an idiom related to food was created from a videogame.
You can learn more about portal in the following video:
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