Lol means a lot of things to us. It’s hard to put into language. A signal we’re kidding, we’re uncomfortable expressing an emotion through text, we’re nervous, we don’t want something taken the wrong way, we’re expressing casual empathy. There’s more to lol than laughing, I’m sure someone has done a study on it by now.
Edit: for some background context, we’re the children of the most successful generation in human history. They were born in a time that had some of the most favorable conditions for success at any point in human development. People paid for college with part time jobs. People bought houses on one wage. People could afford a nice vacation, and had a pension.
Things changed, but our parents didn’t notice. They couldn’t handle failure so they invented participation trophies and then ridiculed us for them when it became convenient. They used their money to make investments in property, drove up rent and prices and then called us lazy for not owning a home yet.
We are a nervous generation. We were told things that aren’t true anymore and then held up against that untrue standard to measure our success in a game that was always rigged. So we say lol.
"lol" is punctuation. A carryover from a time before we had a thousand different emoji to pick from, and also when casual IM communication was not yet so ingrained our culture that conveying subtle tone came naturally. Lol
It used to annoy me a bit first, but after a while I realised this. It's true. So I incorporated lols in my conversations with millenials, in moderation of course. Definitely an improvement
I want to be fired for sending an acronym in which one of the letters stood for a swear. Not even the dumbest thing that's ever happened to me. The ability to anger my boss via one letter being an A instead of a B should be a plus
Lol means a lot of things to us. It’s hard to put into language. A signal we’re kidding, we’re uncomfortable expressing an emotion through text, we’re nervous, we don’t want something taken the wrong way, we’re expressing casual empathy. There’s more to lol than laughing, I’m sure someone has done a study on it by now.
Edit: for some background context, we’re the children of the most successful generation in human history. They were born in a time that had some of the most favorable conditions for success at any point in human development. People paid for college with part time jobs. People bought houses on one wage. People could afford a nice vacation, and had a pension.
Things changed, but our parents didn’t notice. They couldn’t handle failure so they invented participation trophies and then ridiculed us for them when it became convenient. They used their money to make investments in property, drove up rent and prices and then called us lazy for not owning a home yet.
We are a nervous generation. We were told things that aren’t true anymore and then held up against that untrue standard to measure our success in a game that was always rigged. So we say lol.
"lol" is punctuation. A carryover from a time before we had a thousand different emoji to pick from, and also when casual IM communication was not yet so ingrained our culture that conveying subtle tone came naturally. Lol
It used to annoy me a bit first, but after a while I realised this. It's true. So I incorporated lols in my conversations with millenials, in moderation of course. Definitely an improvement
That's my xD, lmao, >:)
Lmao
I'm Gen X and I do that shit all the time. Lol
You can tell you're a filthy Xer because you don't put lol before your period lol.
Fuck. You right. Lol
Now it looks like a policeman directing traffic instead of a person drowning lol
You add it after trauma dumping to have plausible deniability lol
That’s my emotional support lol you will not take it from me
Live, Love, LOL
i will stop adding lol immediately fr fr. no cap.
This meme is straight bussin', on god, fr fr.
Ong?
Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me lolol.
It's my emotional support mood indicator!
It's just some extra spice for a sentence, lol.
I feel like I'm being personally attacked, lol.
I used to use "aal" to be edgy. "Actual audible laugh". No one knew what the fuck I was talking about. Yeah, I'm embarrassed about that.
You should be embarrassed, but are you aae, though?
We like laughing, what can I say 🤷... like it's fucking crime, shees 😒.
As soon as you fucks stop adding emojis and gifs all over yours
Like we didn't use msn emoticons
Y tho? Lol
We use lol to honor trolololol
If I can't use lol I'll go back to hehe
Hehe reads sexual to my millennial eyes
lmao
This is me lol
Life is a joke so why not laugh at it.
Life's a piece of shit when you look at it. 🎵
You'll see it's all a show
Keep 'em laughin' as you go
Just remember that the last laugh is on you!
It stays til the day I die lol
haha stop me lol
Lol lol
Lmao
Lmao is the only acceptable one. Lol is for everyone's grandparents
Lmao isn't professional when having a work conversation with your boss but lol definitely is, so it's clearly superior lol
"you're fired!"
"lmao"
I want to be fired for sending an acronym in which one of the letters stood for a swear. Not even the dumbest thing that's ever happened to me. The ability to anger my boss via one letter being an A instead of a B should be a plus
gg lol
Afk
lol :-)
lol wait this is a millenial thing?
Nah lol
LoL
Looool! I'm Gen X, and do it for the lulz.
Laaaaawll.
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I pretty much downvote any argument that is ended with an emoticon.