... Given this is a Yoko Taro game, we can't tell if this is a joke or real.
It's real (spoilers for the entire game if you scroll much down the page)
https://steamdb.info/app/1113560/localization/
And some people sincerely believe that small details and touches like these do not matter at all!
They were also in the original 360/PS3 version! http://blog.hardcoregaming101.net/2011/07/nier-status-messages.html
This absolutely rules, glad that they deemed these important enough to preserve in the remake and extend to other platforms! Interesting to see the differences between the original messages in-character of Papa Nier and remake's Brother Nier, too bad that the list you linked is much shorter (incomplete?), as Steam version lists 150 different statuses, still great to see!