I'm sorry but "lol" is a totem of the fact that our generation was the first that grew up with the internet. Instant messengers were a cornerstone of our youth, and it's been embedded into our language. There is no changing this.
It would be like us asking you to stop using "it's giving" or similar.
It started out as being “it’s giving X vibes” to describe things being similar (as the person who replied before me said). As slang is wont to do, it got shortened to “it’s giving”.
I pilfered my name from Tolkiens Silmarillion. Mîm was A petty dwarf during the First Age.
Don't know for sure how to pronounce it, but since "Mîms" are used as a replacement for "memes" in The appropriate sub's on reddit, it probably Is something similar.
The brothers lionheart is peak <3 did you know that Astrid got the idea for that book after reading a headstone for two dead brothers in a cemetery in Sweden? I think that is so sweet and heartbreaking.
For a number of years, in my town's cemetery, there was a little headstone for a stillborn baby and on the headstone they had written "Vi ses i Nangijala" = see you in nangijala. The last words Karl speaks before he dies.
A Norwegian friend of mine found the headstone and dragged me over to it and we both started bawling our non-scandinavian classmates didn't understand what was happening while all the other Scandinavians were immediately like 😢
I love the story behind your username, friend! That is both clever and nerdy af xD
Also, love Germany! 🤗 have visited several times and it's a beautiful country and cool people. I think the only criticism my parents had on one of our visits back in the 2000s was that the Germans have more horrific wallpaper than the British. Personally, I disagree. The British are way worse xD
I'm just a bit old to be a millennial (The Oregon Trail generation, thank you very much) and I will often add a ", lol" to the end of a sentence just to hopefully help the lighthearted tone come through.
I was talking to someone about a serious and personal topic, and caught myself saying "lol" quickly, and apologised in advance explaining that it's a habit.
"Man, that sucks lol". They understood it already as a force of habit, yet I didn't realise how difficult it is to shake lol!
Edit: damn it..
Firmly Gen Y here and I use it all the damn time, but I blame that on computers not showing up until I was an awkward teen in high school and needed a neutral way to respond where people wouldn't think I was AFK. We didn't have ways to react to messages so lol and every varient (up to and including the roflcopter, lol) became our way to fill the silence. We were a generation that developed a way to communicate that you found annoying... just like every other generation, GenX gave us "Whatever" as the exclamation of frustrated, GenZ gave us stuff like "drip" for great fashion taste... GenY had a 9 key layout to type as we entered the workforce so we tried to keep it short.
The full stop feels way more serious to me, like an accusation. It feels like something that your manager might say before pip-ing you. The latter feels way less serious, like a friend about to remind you that you're meeting up later today so you don't forget. Periods mean serious. On the other side, lol means light hearted. "I don't think you're on top of things lol" is like something a friend would say after I lay out my elaborate plan that misses something totally obvious
Wish granted. Haha
Could make it worse with a hehe.
hoho
bur
huehuehue
teehee
ははは
wwwww
555
Shishishi
wish granted, uwu.
Heh heh. 👹
Due to your actions placing this company in a bad light, your employment is hereby terminated with immediate effect. Tee hee xoxo
Haha at the end definitely bothers me lol
what really bothers me is jajaja
Lmao
Or "Hah!"
It's clear older edge-millinials were not consulted in the making of this meme.
It's a good tone indicator
Indeed, lol is not the same as haha
It's more of a sarcastic vibe. Which fits, because you are definitely not laughing out loud when you write lol
Uppercase LOL feels like a haha fuck them kind of schadenfreude laugh to me.
Perhaps LOL is a softer version of HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, which I use to the same effect.
Haha, hehe, heh, hehheh are all very different.
Use :3 just to make it awkward.
You can pry :3 from my cold, dead, hands
lol :3
RAWR XD
What about :D
:P sends its regards.
Haha IKR XD
I ain't using the skull emoji as a replacement for perfectly good ASCII
bro 💀
Some of you youngins have never typed a >.< and it shows
Ok boomer
I'm a Xennial, so I put lol at the end of my sentences, but hate it. lol
Least we are not forgotten for once kek
I am a Zillenial and I do the same.
Well crap my username announces my age.
Well crap my username announces my age, lol.
There, fixed it for you, lol
I literally can't stop myself lol
It's a problem lmao
I'm sorry but "lol" is a totem of the fact that our generation was the first that grew up with the internet. Instant messengers were a cornerstone of our youth, and it's been embedded into our language. There is no changing this.
It would be like us asking you to stop using "it's giving" or similar.
What does "it's giving" mean? I don't think I've heard anyone say that.
"it's similar too" or "it reminds me" I think? That's how I'd describe it from my understanding
That’s correct! It started out as “it’s giving X vibes” to state the similarity, then just naturally shortened to “it’s giving”.
It started out as being “it’s giving X vibes” to describe things being similar (as the person who replied before me said). As slang is wont to do, it got shortened to “it’s giving”.
It's giving lol
"fr fr"
How will people know my tone? It's stupid, but effective.
Lol.
lol, ok
Aren't you supposed to add "boomer" to that? (also, isn't everyone over 40 a boomer now, according to some? 😜)
Ok boomer
That's the good stuff! 😁👴
lol. lmao, even.
Sure lol
I alternate between that and "haha". You can pry my lol off my cold dead lolerskate feet as I fly away in my roflcopter
I hear you.
Hear me out, though, don't censor the way other people speak as long as that speech is inoffensive.
If it makes people happy to add lol, or any other thing into their speaking pattern, then that's perfectly fine.
If you have a judgment about it, keep it to yourself.
There are more important things to worry about.
This. Unless it's uwu. Unironic uwu users must be shunned for the good of us all
uwudn't!
It's time to just support cringe as long as it's not fascist cringe.
It's time to be groovy with any type of 'other' that accepts others.
how do you ask someone to change their whole identity like that
Username, lol
(glares intensely)
You also have a very nice username.
Thank you! And you too! Even though I dunno how to pronounce î. You're Scandinavian too?
No, German. Love the Brothers Lionheart.
I pilfered my name from Tolkiens Silmarillion. Mîm was A petty dwarf during the First Age.
Don't know for sure how to pronounce it, but since "Mîms" are used as a replacement for "memes" in The appropriate sub's on reddit, it probably Is something similar.
The brothers lionheart is peak <3 did you know that Astrid got the idea for that book after reading a headstone for two dead brothers in a cemetery in Sweden? I think that is so sweet and heartbreaking.
For a number of years, in my town's cemetery, there was a little headstone for a stillborn baby and on the headstone they had written "Vi ses i Nangijala" = see you in nangijala. The last words Karl speaks before he dies.
A Norwegian friend of mine found the headstone and dragged me over to it and we both started bawling our non-scandinavian classmates didn't understand what was happening while all the other Scandinavians were immediately like 😢
I love the story behind your username, friend! That is both clever and nerdy af xD
Also, love Germany! 🤗 have visited several times and it's a beautiful country and cool people. I think the only criticism my parents had on one of our visits back in the 2000s was that the Germans have more horrific wallpaper than the British. Personally, I disagree. The British are way worse xD
I'm just a bit old to be a millennial (The Oregon Trail generation, thank you very much) and I will often add a ", lol" to the end of a sentence just to hopefully help the lighthearted tone come through.
Yeah I was gonna say! We Xennials absolutely add the lol too. But I guess “true” Gen Xers don’t?
How about this? Ü
Üzgünüm...
Just starting to learn Turkish, lül.
Germans 🤝 Turks
Makes me think about that Truth or Dare movie.
It's the only way I can avoid both Poe's law and involuntary institutionalization, lol
I could never bring myself to do that, actually.
So I just ended up replacing it with an equally annoying onomatopoeic expression to end almost every sentence, haha
I unapologetically balance my lols and hahas. Loha if you will lol
This is the way. Lol
lol
ฅ^>⩊<^ ฅI was talking to someone about a serious and personal topic, and caught myself saying "lol" quickly, and apologised in advance explaining that it's a habit.
"Man, that sucks lol". They understood it already as a force of habit, yet I didn't realise how difficult it is to shake lol!
Edit: damn it..
Cry about it, lol.
Rofl lmao XD
Ya got to many "l"s
I literally can't help it lol
It's just what I do haha
Ho ho ha ha hee hee ha ha
Ho ho ha ha hee hee ha ha
Ho ho ha ha hee hee ha ha
Ooooooihhhhhhhh
(If you know this reference and can hear it, you’re really weird)
Lemmy is full of boomers Who sometimes feel they never have meet a person in their 20's, as a gen Z, I have only one thing to say, lol
xd
Okay rofl
Got em lmao
lawl
ROFLMAO!
:3
If you are particularly deranged, you can also use "^^"
Kitty!
These are not cat ears, but rather squinted eyes of a happy face
At least that was my interpretation at the time
So cute! uWu
(am I doing this right?)
Are you trying to do ^_^
No
I am late 90s Gen Z and still do it. I guess I am lame and cringe now huh?
I use this too much lol
same lol
No lol
Lol, no.
I end every sentence with :3
Gen X/Millenial or Oregon trailer or whatever here: Having a hard time not ended every sentence with a FUCK.
FUCK
LOL lol
Fine I’ll stop, lol
Kek
Lol
lol xd
xDDDDDDD
🤣
Semi-related:
I feel this in my bones.
Lol isn't an acronym. It's an initialism. L.O.L.
who said it was?
The people who literally say "lol" irl
So what
Firmly Gen Y here and I use it all the damn time, but I blame that on computers not showing up until I was an awkward teen in high school and needed a neutral way to respond where people wouldn't think I was AFK. We didn't have ways to react to messages so lol and every varient (up to and including the roflcopter, lol) became our way to fill the silence. We were a generation that developed a way to communicate that you found annoying... just like every other generation, GenX gave us "Whatever" as the exclamation of frustrated, GenZ gave us stuff like "drip" for great fashion taste... GenY had a 9 key layout to type as we entered the workforce so we tried to keep it short.
Gen X was meh
LOL 🤪
I'm so sorry for your loss lol
lol 🤣
Ok!
wait gen z doesn't do this? so now I'm last gen? what?
XD
Still better than spamming useless cancer emojis.
I am gen x and I regret that I once engaged in this. I am so very sorry.
Language habits always shift with generations. It’s interesting how small things like this become part of how people connect and express tone online.
This always felt like a boomer/zoomer thing to me
I think millennials don’t like to do a hard stop at the end of sentences. It feels overly harsh* or something, so I’ve heard, lol.
vs
The full stop feels way more serious to me, like an accusation. It feels like something that your manager might say before pip-ing you. The latter feels way less serious, like a friend about to remind you that you're meeting up later today so you don't forget. Periods mean serious. On the other side, lol means light hearted. "I don't think you're on top of things lol" is like something a friend would say after I lay out my elaborate plan that misses something totally obvious
No, a boomer may still ask what lol means.
Lots of love
I thought it changed now to something to do with Labubus...