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[-] MrMamiya@feddit.de 88 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] dmention7@lemm.ee 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"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

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 19 points 1 year ago

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

[-] fushuan@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

That's my xD, lmao, >:)

Lmao

[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 38 points 1 year ago

You add it after trauma dumping to have plausible deniability lol

[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago

I'm Gen X and I do that shit all the time. Lol

[-] blanketswithsmallpox@kbin.social 31 points 1 year ago

You can tell you're a filthy Xer because you don't put lol before your period lol.

[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago
[-] saltesc@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Now it looks like a policeman directing traffic instead of a person drowning lol

[-] kimpilled@infosec.pub 27 points 1 year ago

That’s my emotional support lol you will not take it from me

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 year ago

Live, Love, LOL

[-] kvothelu@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

i will stop adding lol immediately fr fr. no cap.

[-] Cabrio@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

This meme is straight bussin', on god, fr fr.

[-] model_tar_gz@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me lolol.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

It's just some extra spice for a sentence, lol.

[-] Tigbitties@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] NielsBohron@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

You should be embarrassed, but are you aae, though?

[-] spiderjuzce@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 year ago

If I can't use lol I'll go back to hehe

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Hehe reads sexual to my millennial eyes

[-] Loudambiance@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I feel like I'm being personally attacked, lol.

[-] Laticauda@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

It's my emotional support mood indicator!

[-] 0x4E4F@lemmy.rollenspiel.monster 11 points 1 year ago

We like laughing, what can I say 🤷... like it's fucking crime, shees 😒.

[-] holycrap@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

As soon as you fucks stop adding emojis and gifs all over yours

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Like we didn't use msn emoticons

[-] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago
[-] 001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago

Lol, what a funny meme, lol

[-] Voli@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

We use lol to honor trolololol

[-] hyperplane@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Life is a joke so why not laugh at it.

[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Life's a piece of shit when you look at it. 🎵

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You'll see it's all a show

Keep 'em laughin' as you go

Just remember that the last laugh is on you!

[-] ashaman2007@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

This is me lol

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

It stays til the day I die lol

[-] Dwarvy@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago
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[-] rubythulhu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

haha stop me lol

[-] SomeBoyo@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

That's what they get for filling >50℅ of a reply with emojis

[-] Nfntordr@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago
[-] SilentStorms@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

lol wait this is a millenial thing?

[-] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago
[-] blanketswithsmallpox@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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[-] Dr_Fetus_Jackson@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Looool! I'm Gen X, and do it for the lulz.

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