It's probably too late to change, lol

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TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 131 pts · 251d (18 replies)

Wish granted. Haha

Zephorah@discuss.online · 62 pts · 251d (11 replies)

Could make it worse with a hehe.

ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 34 pts · 251d (7 replies)

hoho

Greddan@feddit.org · 25 pts · 251d (6 replies)
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half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 251d

bur

Supervisor194@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 251d (3 replies)

huehuehue

fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip · 8 pts · 251d (1 reply)

teehee

wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 250d

ははは

ken@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 250d

wwwww

wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 250d

555

TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 251d

Shishishi

kieron115@startrek.website · 8 pts · 250d

wish granted, uwu.

binarytobis@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 251d

Heh heh. 👹

funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 251d

Due to your actions placing this company in a bad light, your employment is hereby terminated with immediate effect. Tee hee xoxo

pohart@programming.dev · 14 pts · 251d (2 replies)

Haha at the end definitely bothers me lol

mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 251d (1 reply)

what really bothers me is jajaja

Kraiden@piefed.social · 3 pts · 251d

jar jar binks thumbs up gif

unknown@piefed.social · 7 pts · 251d

Lmao

Fmstrat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 249d

Or "Hah!"

It's clear older edge-millinials were not consulted in the making of this meme.

pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 77 pts · 251d (2 replies)

It's a good tone indicator

MisterFrog@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 250d (1 reply)

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.

JackbyDev@programming.dev · 2 pts · 250d

Haha, hehe, heh, hehheh are all very different.

sparkles@piefed.zip · 58 pts · 251d (7 replies)
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KoboldCoterie@pawb.social · 39 pts · 251d (5 replies)

Use :3 just to make it awkward.

SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 251d (2 replies)

You can pry :3 from my cold, dead, hands

TheFresh16@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 250d (1 reply)
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SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 250d

RAWR XD

Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 251d (1 reply)

What about :D

Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 250d

:P sends its regards.

abbadon420@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 251d

Haha IKR XD

L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works · 49 pts · 251d (3 replies)

I ain't using the skull emoji as a replacement for perfectly good ASCII

blinfabian@feddit.nl · 13 pts · 251d

bro 💀

floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 250d

Some of you youngins have never typed a >.< and it shows

tehmics@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 251d

Ok boomer

Apocalypteroid@anarchist.nexus · 47 pts · 251d (2 replies)

I'm a Xennial, so I put lol at the end of my sentences, but hate it. lol

dubyakay@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 251d

Least we are not forgotten for once kek

Matriks404@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 251d

I am a Zillenial and I do the same.

Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 43 pts · 251d (1 reply)

Well crap my username announces my age.

mrnobody@reddthat.com · 25 pts · 251d

Well crap my username announces my age, lol.

There, fixed it for you, lol

BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip · 40 pts · 251d

I literally can't stop myself lol

It's a problem lmao

Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 37 pts · 251d

How will people know my tone? It's stupid, but effective.

Lol.

semperverus@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 250d (6 replies)

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.

__Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 250d (3 replies)

What does "it's giving" mean? I don't think I've heard anyone say that.

zammy95@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 250d (1 reply)

"it's similar too" or "it reminds me" I think? That's how I'd describe it from my understanding

slappyfuck@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 250d

That’s correct! It started out as “it’s giving X vibes” to state the similarity, then just naturally shortened to “it’s giving”.

slappyfuck@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 250d

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”.

JackbyDev@programming.dev · 2 pts · 250d

It's giving lol

lesnout27@feddit.org · 1 pts · 249d

"fr fr"

Nariom@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 251d (3 replies)

lol, ok

OpenStars@piefed.social · 5 pts · 251d (2 replies)

Aren't you supposed to add "boomer" to that? (also, isn't everyone over 40 a boomer now, according to some? 😜)

FlordaMan@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 251d (1 reply)

Ok boomer

OpenStars@piefed.social · 3 pts · 251d

That's the good stuff! 😁👴

ebolapie@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 251d

lol. lmao, even.

psx_crab@lemmy.zip · 25 pts · 251d

Sure lol

bizarroland@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 251d (3 replies)

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.

Kraiden@piefed.social · 8 pts · 251d (2 replies)

This. Unless it's uwu. Unironic uwu users must be shunned for the good of us all

Speculater@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 250d (1 reply)

uwudn't!

yakko@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 250d

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.

tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 24 pts · 250d

I alternate between that and "haha". You can pry my lol off my cold dead lolerskate feet as I fly away in my roflcopter

lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 21 pts · 251d (6 replies)

how do you ask someone to change their whole identity like that

Nangijala@feddit.dk · 7 pts · 250d (5 replies)

Username, lol

lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 250d

(glares intensely)

Mim@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 249d (3 replies)

You also have a very nice username.

Nangijala@feddit.dk · 2 pts · 249d (2 replies)

Thank you! And you too! Even though I dunno how to pronounce î. You're Scandinavian too?

Mim@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 249d (1 reply)

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.

Nangijala@feddit.dk · 2 pts · 248d

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

Zink@programming.dev · 20 pts · 250d (1 reply)

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.

slappyfuck@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 250d

Yeah I was gonna say! We Xennials absolutely add the lol too. But I guess “true” Gen Xers don’t?

rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 19 pts · 251d (3 replies)

How about this? Ü

Matriks404@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 251d (1 reply)

Üzgünüm...

Just starting to learn Turkish, lül.

rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 3 pts · 251d

Germans 🤝 Turks

       Ü
Nangijala@feddit.dk · 1 pts · 250d

Makes me think about that Truth or Dare movie.

deacon@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 251d (3 replies)

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

spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 251d (1 reply)

I unapologetically balance my lols and hahas. Loha if you will lol

MacAttak8@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 251d

This is the way. Lol

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 251d

lol

PunnyName@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 251d

It's the only way I can avoid both Poe's law and involuntary institutionalization, lol

JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 251d

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..

CatZoomies@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 251d (1 reply)
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unknown@piefed.social · 4 pts · 251d

ฅ^>⩊<^ ฅ

Nangijala@feddit.dk · 14 pts · 251d

Cry about it, lol.

StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 251d (1 reply)

Rofl lmao XD

Mcdolan@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 251d

Ya got to many "l"s

jacecomix@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 251d (1 reply)

I literally can't help it lol
It's just what I do haha

LillyPip@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 250d

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)

FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz · 11 pts · 251d

xd

BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 251d (2 replies)

Okay rofl

JargonWagon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 250d (1 reply)

Got em lmao

eah@programming.dev · 1 pts · 250d

lawl

A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl · 11 pts · 250d (1 reply)

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

thatradomguy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 250d

classic lol face meme template image

SpicyTaint@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 250d (1 reply)
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MehBlah@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 250d

ROFLMAO!

Una@europe.pub · 10 pts · 251d

:3

Laser@feddit.org · 10 pts · 251d (5 replies)

If you are particularly deranged, you can also use "^^"

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 251d (1 reply)

Kitty!

Laser@feddit.org · 5 pts · 251d

These are not cat ears, but rather squinted eyes of a happy face

At least that was my interpretation at the time

OpenStars@piefed.social · 4 pts · 251d

So cute! uWu

(am I doing this right?)

TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 251d (1 reply)

Are you trying to do ^_^

Laser@feddit.org · 3 pts · 251d

No

baatliwala@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 250d (1 reply)

I use this too much lol

JackbyDev@programming.dev · 2 pts · 250d

same lol

PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 250d

I am late 90s Gen Z and still do it. I guess I am lame and cringe now huh?

Speculater@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 251d

Lol, no.

gherkin@piefed.social · 8 pts · 250d

No lol

kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 251d

I end every sentence with :3

Ste41th@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 251d

Fine I’ll stop, lol

anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 250d

Gen X/Millenial or Oregon trailer or whatever here: Having a hard time not ended every sentence with a FUCK.

FUCK

LillyPip@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 250d

LOL lol

stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 251d

Lol

Visstix@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 251d

Kek

ITGuyLevi@programming.dev · 5 pts · 250d (1 reply)

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.

deHaga@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 249d

Gen X was meh

orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 251d

I feel this in my bones.

Vinylraupe@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 250d (1 reply)

lol xd

JackbyDev@programming.dev · 2 pts · 250d

xDDDDDDD

joyjoy@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 251d (3 replies)

Lol isn't an acronym. It's an initialism. L.O.L.

Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 251d (2 replies)

who said it was?

joyjoy@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 250d (1 reply)

The people who literally say "lol" irl

derg@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 250d

So what

PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space · 5 pts · 250d

Semi-related:

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 251d

🤣

sirico@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 249d

I'm so sorry for your loss lol

OldGrayDog@lemmynsfw.com · 4 pts · 250d

LOL 🤪

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 251d

lol 🤣

xorollo@leminal.space · 3 pts · 251d

Ok!

SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 248d

XD

hectorcruz123@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 249d

Language habits always shift with generations. It’s interesting how small things like this become part of how people connect and express tone online.

thatradomguy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 250d

wait gen z doesn't do this? so now I'm last gen? what?

BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 249d

I am gen x and I regret that I once engaged in this. I am so very sorry.

justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 248d

Still better than spamming useless cancer emojis.

iatenine@piefed.social · 0 pts · 251d (5 replies)

This always felt like a boomer/zoomer thing to me

TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 251d (1 reply)

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.

pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 251d

I don't think you're on top of things.

vs

I don't think you're on top of things

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

Zephorah@discuss.online · 9 pts · 251d (2 replies)

No, a boomer may still ask what lol means.

orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 251d (1 reply)

Lots of love

OpenStars@piefed.social · 4 pts · 251d

I thought it changed now to something to do with Labubus...