Spyke
Yeatherreply
lemmy.ca

Wojack doesn’t really belong in the mass extinction category since it is an evolution from the earliers. However Smug Wojack 2 and Tired Wojack are survivors of the earlier Wojack offshoots and Crying Nooo Soyjack is a survivor of a Soyjack offshoot.

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pythonreply
lemmy.world

Oh god, my brain has decided to read the "Rofl Copter" part with the intonation of that "Chicken Jockey" meme. That feels very wrong.

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fedia.io

Got into its roflcopter and flew away.

ROFL:ROFL:LOL:ROFL:ROFL _________||_________ L / [ O\ LOL===== |_|_\ L B|O M B ) F |______,-------¬_____/ T // }-OMGROCKET)) W // _______||_||_________/_/

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DrDystopiareply
lemy.lol

Funny, now I got that Super Mario song stuck in my head.

You know exactly which one.

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

I remember that too. I also remember when 80% of conversations online started with "a/s/l?" and canines roamed the chatrooms like never before or since.

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The days before profile pictures and text. Nowadays anybody can check my profile and be none the wiser.

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I knew rofl in the early 90s and did not start seeing rotfl until the later 90s.

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MJKee9reply
lemmy.world

Rotflmao was always the form i saw. I was a PowWow chat guy in the mid-90s. That and Chathouse. A lot fewer acronyms back then.

I sound like the pepperidge farm guy ...fuck me.

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::: spoiler roflcopter

         ROFL:ROFL:ROFL:ROFL
           _______^_____
  L      /         []   \
 LOL=====                \
  L      \_______________]
              I      I
            ----------/

:::

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Cousin? They were conjoined twins, known by ROFLMAO. Only one survived the operation.

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Ventrilo macro spamming was almost an entirely distinct hobby from gaming

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feddit.org

Does anyone read el-o-el or ar-o-ef-el?

LMAO is definitely el mao for me.

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I still use rofl because thats what iOS uses to autocomplete 🤣 emoji. It looks like lmao does too, but i always use rofl.

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lemmy.ml

Rofl doesn't involve ass, that's certainly why it's not popular lol.

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lemmy.zip

"rolling on the floor laughing" but i'm not. Things are funny, sure, but so funny I'm on the floor? Years pas between such moments.

"laughing my ass off" has a swear in it

need I say more?

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Zozanoreply
aussie.zone

I laugh out loud every time I type out 'lol'.

Not sincerely, just one, loud, assertive...

Because then I'm not a liar.

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lemmy.ml

In my gaming circles roflstomp was quite entertaining during it's hayday.

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I feel like BRB kinda disappeared too. It’s like we took it for granted and one day it decided “you know what? I’m not gonna be back”.

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how far are you away from keyboard though? One usually has their phone and people are used to asyncing chats. it's not like I sit down and put memes in the group chat as a scheduled event

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lemmy.world

I believe it's because you can't stretch ROFL the way you do lmaoooooooo.

The extra Os don't make sense as an abbreviation, but it's fun to shout it out

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lemmy.ca

I still rofl, gotta keep that shit strong

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Don't forget to take your medicine, gramps.

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lemmy.world

LMAO indicates something a person actually does, whereas ROFL isn't really a thing people do, so its more of a meme than it is useful.

That's my guess anyways. Like the latter is less mature because of that and so people use it less.

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lemmy.ca

I hope you can get your ass reattached soon. Sucks when it comes off.

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Nah I haven't read a lmao since the 2000's, only lol has managed to survive, the lone warrior

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Well, after the rebrand, LMFAO had a few banger hits. I couldn't remember a single good song that ROFL brought out though.

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I think it was honestly the popularity of ROFL over LAMO that signed its death warrant. It became associated with Internet culture at the time. Usually the popular slang isn't the ones that stick around. It's the less flashy ones that trickle out of the subculture and latches onto the lexicon.

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