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
132 Comments
TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 131 pts · 199d
Wish granted. Haha
Zephorah@discuss.online · 62 pts · 199d
Could make it worse with a hehe.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 34 pts · 199d
hoho
Greddan@feddit.org · 25 pts · 199d
Supervisor194@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 199d
huehuehue
fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip · 8 pts · 199d
teehee
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 198d
ははは
ken@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 198d
wwwww
half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 199d
bur
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 198d
555
TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 199d
Shishishi
kieron115@startrek.website · 8 pts · 198d
wish granted, uwu.
binarytobis@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 199d
Heh heh. 👹
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 199d
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 · 199d
Haha at the end definitely bothers me lol
mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 199d
what really bothers me is jajaja
Kraiden@piefed.social · 3 pts · 198d
unknown@piefed.social · 7 pts · 199d
Lmao
Fmstrat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 197d
Or "Hah!"
It's clear older edge-millinials were not consulted in the making of this meme.
pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 77 pts · 199d
It's a good tone indicator
MisterFrog@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 198d
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 · 198d
Haha, hehe, heh, hehheh are all very different.
sparkles@piefed.zip · 58 pts · 199d
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social · 39 pts · 199d
Use :3 just to make it awkward.
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 199d
You can pry :3 from my cold, dead, hands
TheFresh16@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 198d
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 198d
RAWR XD
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 199d
What about :D
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 198d
:P sends its regards.
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 199d
Haha IKR XD
L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works · 49 pts · 199d
I ain't using the skull emoji as a replacement for perfectly good ASCII
blinfabian@feddit.nl · 13 pts · 199d
bro 💀
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 198d
Some of you youngins have never typed a >.< and it shows
tehmics@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 199d
Ok boomer
Apocalypteroid@anarchist.nexus · 47 pts · 199d
I'm a Xennial, so I put lol at the end of my sentences, but hate it. lol
dubyakay@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 199d
Least we are not forgotten for once kek
Matriks404@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 198d
I am a Zillenial and I do the same.
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 43 pts · 199d
Well crap my username announces my age.
mrnobody@reddthat.com · 25 pts · 199d
Well crap my username announces my age, lol.
There, fixed it for you, lol
BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip · 40 pts · 199d
I literally can't stop myself lol
It's a problem lmao
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 37 pts · 199d
How will people know my tone? It's stupid, but effective.
Lol.
semperverus@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 198d
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 · 198d
What does "it's giving" mean? I don't think I've heard anyone say that.
zammy95@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 198d
"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 · 198d
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 · 198d
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 · 198d
It's giving lol
lesnout27@feddit.org · 1 pts · 197d
"fr fr"
Nariom@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 199d
lol, ok
OpenStars@piefed.social · 5 pts · 199d
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 · 199d
Ok boomer
OpenStars@piefed.social · 3 pts · 199d
That's the good stuff! 😁👴
ebolapie@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 199d
lol. lmao, even.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip · 25 pts · 199d
Sure lol
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 24 pts · 198d
I alternate between that and "haha". You can pry my lol off my cold dead lolerskate feet as I fly away in my roflcopter
bizarroland@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 199d
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 · 198d
This. Unless it's uwu. Unironic uwu users must be shunned for the good of us all
Speculater@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 198d
uwudn't!
yakko@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 198d
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.
lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 21 pts · 199d
how do you ask someone to change their whole identity like that
Nangijala@feddit.dk · 7 pts · 198d
Username, lol
lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 198d
(glares intensely)
Mim@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 197d
You also have a very nice username.
Nangijala@feddit.dk · 2 pts · 197d
Thank you! And you too! Even though I dunno how to pronounce î. You're Scandinavian too?
Mim@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 197d
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 · 196d
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 · 198d
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 · 198d
Yeah I was gonna say! We Xennials absolutely add the lol too. But I guess “true” Gen Xers don’t?
deacon@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 199d
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 · 199d
I unapologetically balance my lols and hahas. Loha if you will lol
MacAttak8@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 199d
This is the way. Lol
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 199d
lol
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 19 pts · 199d
How about this? Ü
Matriks404@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 198d
Üzgünüm...
Just starting to learn Turkish, lül.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 3 pts · 198d
Germans 🤝 Turks
Nangijala@feddit.dk · 1 pts · 198d
Makes me think about that Truth or Dare movie.
PunnyName@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 199d
It's the only way I can avoid both Poe's law and involuntary institutionalization, lol
JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 199d
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 · 199d
unknown@piefed.social · 4 pts · 199d
ฅ^>⩊<^ ฅNangijala@feddit.dk · 14 pts · 199d
Cry about it, lol.
StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 199d
Rofl lmao XD
Mcdolan@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 199d
Ya got to many "l"s
jacecomix@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 199d
I literally can't help it lol
It's just what I do haha
LillyPip@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 198d
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)
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl · 11 pts · 198d
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 · 198d
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 198d
Okay rofl
JargonWagon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 198d
Got em lmao
eah@programming.dev · 1 pts · 198d
lawl
FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz · 11 pts · 199d
xd
SpicyTaint@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 198d
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 198d
ROFLMAO!
Laser@feddit.org · 10 pts · 199d
If you are particularly deranged, you can also use "^^"
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 199d
Kitty!
Laser@feddit.org · 5 pts · 199d
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 · 199d
So cute! uWu
(am I doing this right?)
TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 199d
Are you trying to do ^_^
Laser@feddit.org · 3 pts · 199d
No
Una@europe.pub · 10 pts · 199d
:3
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 198d
I am late 90s Gen Z and still do it. I guess I am lame and cringe now huh?
baatliwala@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 198d
I use this too much lol
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 2 pts · 198d
same lol
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 199d
I end every sentence with :3
gherkin@piefed.social · 8 pts · 198d
No lol
Speculater@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 199d
Lol, no.
Ste41th@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 199d
Fine I’ll stop, lol
LillyPip@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 198d
LOL lol
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 198d
Gen X/Millenial or Oregon trailer or whatever here: Having a hard time not ended every sentence with a FUCK.
FUCK
Visstix@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 199d
Kek
stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 199d
Lol
Vinylraupe@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 198d
lol xd
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 2 pts · 198d
xDDDDDDD
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 199d
🤣
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 199d
I feel this in my bones.
joyjoy@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 198d
Lol isn't an acronym. It's an initialism. L.O.L.
Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 198d
who said it was?
joyjoy@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 198d
The people who literally say "lol" irl
derg@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 198d
So what
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space · 5 pts · 198d
Semi-related:
ITGuyLevi@programming.dev · 5 pts · 198d
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 · 197d
Gen X was meh
OldGrayDog@lemmynsfw.com · 4 pts · 198d
LOL 🤪
sirico@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 197d
I'm so sorry for your loss lol
xorollo@leminal.space · 3 pts · 199d
Ok!
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 199d
lol 🤣
SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 196d
XD
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 196d
Still better than spamming useless cancer emojis.
hectorcruz123@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 197d
Language habits always shift with generations. It’s interesting how small things like this become part of how people connect and express tone online.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 197d
I am gen x and I regret that I once engaged in this. I am so very sorry.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 198d
wait gen z doesn't do this? so now I'm last gen? what?
iatenine@piefed.social · 0 pts · 199d
This always felt like a boomer/zoomer thing to me
TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 199d
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 · 199d
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
Zephorah@discuss.online · 9 pts · 199d
No, a boomer may still ask what lol means.
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 199d
Lots of love
OpenStars@piefed.social · 4 pts · 199d
I thought it changed now to something to do with Labubus...