I’m gen z rather than a millennial, but for me putting lol at the start of a sentence just means I have a 75% chance of putting multiples lol in the sentence.
I’ve recognized this enough times that now when it happens there’s a little alarm that goes off in my head to remove some lols
Depends where you live, it's somehow still alive and well in Poland! You'd usually use the lowercase xd for a more refined and low-key vibe tho, the full caps ones are reserved for special occasions.
I love how you can get the evolution from the original "XD", which low key resembles a facial expression to the "more refined" "xd", which resembles nothing at all but just relies on cultural awareness to be interpreted.
I'm a Xennial and I have hated the LOL shit right from the start. Actually aside from the basic abbreviations from IRC, I tend to avoid acronyms entirely and prefer properly typed messages. Anyone sending "lol" with every message won't see a lot of responses from me.
We're all borrowed matter dancing upon the firmament of an indefinable thing called reality, and our conscious existence is nothing more than an emergent property of this farce within a farce, lol
Yeah, I never became a lol'er, dunno whether or of spite or what, but haha was my go-to response for someone said something that I'm supposed to express some reaction of humor to. Heh sometimes. Ha has a different feel to it.
This is me on discord. I find myself starting and ending messages with it. I’ll go back and edit messages when I finally notice it to dial it back a little.
I finally found out about the ellipses phenomenon amongst the older gen a while ago, and how it was a common format in writing that they tried to transfer to texting and millennials constantly misinterpret as it passive aggression, which causes all sorts of anxiety lol
Shit you not, once asked for a recommendation letter from a summer job employer on campus for an open mic music lounge I hadn't visited in a long time, and all he emailed me back was
"Sure..."
Needless to say, I thought "Oh fuck, he hates me. Nevermind. I should have come by more-" and never bothered to follow up on it lmfao
For me and the ppl I chatted/texted with was it mostly smiles like: xD xP XD xd x3 and the laughing was haha, hahahahaha, HAHAHA, sometimes lol and rofl but most of the times were lol used as a way to say "that was weird" or "that is stupid", could also be a question "is it supposed to be funny?" Or a statement about what you said or will say "I am silly" so ppl would know they can find it funny/it is ok to laugh.
I rarely used lol for actually laughing, it was more used as "that/this is silly". I think the younger millenniums said lol and rofl instead of smilies more often but I am unsure about that one.
I actually used to hate it back in the day because it was so overused but then when I hit the Skype era, I succumbed to my friends and started spamming it along with lmao because it was easy to type on a keyboard with zero effort.
Also that one evolution extinction meme of all the dead ones like rofl and roflmao.
It's weird to be one of the only millennials I know who doesn't use lol at all. It always feels so weird when I try. I think it's because I never used MSN growing up.
Yeah, I used to use "LOL" more as a teenager on MSN, etc. At some point it became more exaggerated; people began using it to show genuine laughter or to mock others, and "lol" became a more relaxed acknowledgement of general humour.
Another interesting change is "lmao". That also used to be capitalised and used to indicate a level of laughter greater than "LOL", but at some point it became lowercase and very passive aggressive. I almost exclusively see it being used to taunt/mock others, often by Gen Z.
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ArfArfWoof@europe.pub · 86 pts · 99d
i'm sorry to have to tell you, but grandma is dead LOL
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works · 39 pts · 99d
I just told little Davey and he’s devastated lol
DeadDigger@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 99d
All the love lol
rdrunner@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 99d
Early internet days on ICQ, my family members would use lol as "lots of love" which just made some messages hilarious. "Bye, miss you lol!"
qprimed@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 99d
pure. internet. classic.
sending LoL!
MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works · 73 pts · 99d
Zwiebel@feddit.org · 21 pts · 99d
iocase@lemmy.zip · 68 pts · 99d
pero@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 98d
Yo this is so real frfr 😭💀
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 7 pts · 98d
Lmaooooo bussin
iocase@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 98d
💀😭
MapleFawn@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 56 pts · 99d
lol it’s quite easy if you put it first.
JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 99d
I’m gen z rather than a millennial, but for me putting lol at the start of a sentence just means I have a 75% chance of putting multiples lol in the sentence.
I’ve recognized this enough times that now when it happens there’s a little alarm that goes off in my head to remove some lols
zip@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 49 pts · 99d
Well, at least we grew out of adding xD to the end of everything! XDDD
Syndication@lemmy.today · 23 pts · 99d
LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 99d
D: me too
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 98d
:c
FerretyFever0@fedia.io · 20 pts · 99d
xDeez Nuts Hahahahahahahahahahahhaahhaahahahahahhahahahahahahahaahahhahahahahahahajajahauaauuaha I'm so funny
troglodytis@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 99d
IoI
Rinn@awful.systems · 6 pts · 99d
Depends where you live, it's somehow still alive and well in Poland! You'd usually use the lowercase xd for a more refined and low-key vibe tho, the full caps ones are reserved for special occasions.
thebestaquaman@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 99d
I love how you can get the evolution from the original "XD", which low key resembles a facial expression to the "more refined" "xd", which resembles nothing at all but just relies on cultural awareness to be interpreted.
Zwiebel@feddit.org · 3 pts · 99d
Thats why xD is clearly superior to xd
Zwiebel@feddit.org · 1 pts · 99d
Germany too, but I prefere the more elegant looking xD
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 2 pts · 98d
I cringe internally at the part of me that once used XD unironically hahaha
Zealotte@lemmy.zip · 27 pts · 99d
As an elder millennial, I don't use "lol," but you'll have to take : ) from my cold, dead hands.
: )
DisasterTransport@startrek.website · 11 pts · 99d
if im feeling fat and sassy i hit em with the silly little guy with a nose :^)
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 99d
I live in a giant bucket.
ramius345@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 99d
Tuesdays coming, did you remember to bring your coat?
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 99d
DoYOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH!
JargonWagon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 99d
I AM A BANANA
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 98d
Everybody together now!: "MY ANUS IS BLEEDING!"
ramius345@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 96d
For the love of god and everything that is holy!
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 99d
Hit em with the Japanese imports ^ _ ^
Leg@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 99d
I get pretty silly with it ( ͡◉ ͜ ʖ ͡◉)
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 99d
why that long face? :)
MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 99d
Too much joy to contain on a short face.
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 98d
Possibly to avoid it auto"correcting" to the emoji, if they're on mobile.
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 99d
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 99d
Agreed. Nine is too much silly nose stuff.
PlasticExistence@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 99d
I’m so glad woot died out : )
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 99d
Woot!
zikzak025@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 98d
But wootz is forever
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wootz_steel
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 98d
:^)
Nikki@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 24 pts · 99d
not a millennial but lol
WraithGear@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 99d
it’s just another intonation marker, a hedging particle, or a pragmatic tone indicator.
it signals the sentence is for comradery, but not immediate action
banause@feddit.org · 11 pts · 99d
lol
stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 99d
Lol, just add it to the beginning, jk lol.
Hupf@feddit.org · 2 pts · 98d
https://youtu.be/m31Qh1uonJQ
SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 99d
i'm in this picture and i dont like it lol
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 16 pts · 98d
Technically a xennial, but yeah it's a necessity lol
My speech is really blunt so I feel like every other thing I write would otherwise be misinterpreted as some personal attack lol
(Now reread it without the lols)
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 98d
Sometimes I do exclamation points instead of lols!
Routhinator@startrek.website · 1 pts · 98d
I'm a Xennial and I have hated the LOL shit right from the start. Actually aside from the basic abbreviations from IRC, I tend to avoid acronyms entirely and prefer properly typed messages. Anyone sending "lol" with every message won't see a lot of responses from me.
Jarix@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 98d
Roflmao
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 98d
Roflcopter
_lilith@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 99d
life is a joke lol
rabidhamster@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 99d
We're all borrowed matter dancing upon the firmament of an indefinable thing called reality, and our conscious existence is nothing more than an emergent property of this farce within a farce, lol
MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 99d
We have no reason to be here, whatever God made us only did it because He could and needed fun on watching our mudane lives lol
niktemadur@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 99d
life is a joke 2 U rotfl
pewpew@feddit.it · 15 pts · 99d
I'm gen z lol
niktemadur@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 99d
LOL!!!
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 99d
Lol
ColdWater@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 98d
Unrelatable lmao
kamen@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 98d
Narrator: "They did not actually ltao"
tobebannedbygaymods@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 99d
I'm gen z , lol
imjustmsk@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 99d
I'm not even sure I'm genz, im kinda at the edge but sure I'm a genz too lol and I cnt stop using lol, lol
edit: by edge, I mean on the younger side btw
Zwiebel@feddit.org · 4 pts · 99d
Do the gen alpha peeps use it too?
It has to become cringe at some point since their parents probably use it lol
imjustmsk@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 98d
I don't think gen alpha uses it lol
8oow3291d@feddit.dk · 14 pts · 99d
Sorry for your loss, lol
biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 99d
:.|:;?msage@programming.dev · 12 pts · 99d
lol, fuck that
Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 99d
You did it wrong lol
9point6@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 99d
I want you to know I'm not taking your request seriously lol
Fmstrat@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 98d
I'll see you a "haha"
Dozzi92@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 98d
Yeah, I never became a lol'er, dunno whether or of spite or what, but haha was my go-to response for someone said something that I'm supposed to express some reaction of humor to. Heh sometimes. Ha has a different feel to it.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 98d
Ha!
Fmstrat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 98d
Yea, heh
JigglySackles@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 99d
I know I overuse lol. I hate it. Lol
bless@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 98d
It's not that hard lol
SirSamuel@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 98d
Get bent lol
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 99d
No, I'm not trying to do that. lol
lol_idk@piefed.social · 8 pts · 99d
I start all posts with it
banause@feddit.org · 3 pts · 99d
Paradoxon lol
MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 99d
This is a comment not a post lol
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 99d
But look at their name. They don’t even have to type it…
MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 98d
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 98d
MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 98d
Oh, I'm dumb as hell
Karl@literature.cafe · 1 pts · 98d
Lol
inzen@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 99d
lol
raker@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 98d
rofl
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus · 8 pts · 99d
lol
thesdev@feddit.org · 8 pts · 99d
That's not even a thing lol
dasrael@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 99d
I am personally attacked...fuck you lol
Feddinat0r@feddit.org · 8 pts · 99d
Well... I dont need lol xD
tootoughtoremember@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 99d
haha
DannyMac@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 98d
What is the Gen Z approved way to express emotion?
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 98d
💀
Alsjemenou@lemy.nl · 5 pts · 98d
thanks 💀 lol
iocase@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 98d
😭
exist@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 99d
lmao
AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 99d
holy crap I'm so self-conscious about this now and just looked back at a bunch of messages on multiple platforms and the ratio is insane...
Zwiebel@feddit.org · 7 pts · 99d
Dont worry about it lol
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 6 pts · 99d
lol?
xistera@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 98d
This is me on discord. I find myself starting and ending messages with it. I’ll go back and edit messages when I finally notice it to dial it back a little.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 99d
I prefer the roflcopter.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 99d
Safe flight lmao
Ichiro_kun@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 98d
For me the thing which i do the most is adding "..." Multiple times between the sentences or at the last of the sentences. 😭
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 6 pts · 98d
I finally found out about the ellipses phenomenon amongst the older gen a while ago, and how it was a common format in writing that they tried to transfer to texting and millennials constantly misinterpret as it passive aggression, which causes all sorts of anxiety lol
Shit you not, once asked for a recommendation letter from a summer job employer on campus for an open mic music lounge I hadn't visited in a long time, and all he emailed me back was
"Sure..."
Needless to say, I thought "Oh fuck, he hates me. Nevermind. I should have come by more-" and never bothered to follow up on it lmfao
Ichiro_kun@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 98d
Well i think I just use multiple ellipses to show that I’m thinking before I answer. Without ellipses, it sounds too fast and straightforward.
farting_gorilla@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 98d
I thought it was only me…
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 98d
...nah I overuse ellipses too, lol
w3ird_sloth@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 99d
Me trying not to use lol in normal conversation.
Kuma@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 98d
For me and the ppl I chatted/texted with was it mostly smiles like: xD xP XD xd x3 and the laughing was haha, hahahahaha, HAHAHA, sometimes lol and rofl but most of the times were lol used as a way to say "that was weird" or "that is stupid", could also be a question "is it supposed to be funny?" Or a statement about what you said or will say "I am silly" so ppl would know they can find it funny/it is ok to laugh.
I rarely used lol for actually laughing, it was more used as "that/this is silly". I think the younger millenniums said lol and rofl instead of smilies more often but I am unsure about that one.
Randelung@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 98d
Lol. Roflmao even.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 99d
OMG I literally just literallied lol
mlg@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 98d
I actually used to hate it back in the day because it was so overused but then when I hit the Skype era, I succumbed to my friends and started spamming it along with lmao because it was easy to type on a keyboard with zero effort.
Also that one evolution extinction meme of all the dead ones like rofl and roflmao.
Rest in Spaghetti Never Forgetti lol
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 99d
the problem is sending a signal from your hand.
MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 99d
No, no, that's a cool power.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 99d
respond ending your sentence with "haha hahaha haaa" they love that haha hahaha haaa
Shameless@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 99d
I love a lol but definitely love a hahaha to switch things up and keep it fresh
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 99d
That's where I use lmao or lmfao
BilSabab@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 98d
nah, we good. lol
lugal@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 99d
Who uses that word anymore rofl
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 99d
True, lol. xD
henfredemars@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 99d
How are they going to know this isn't a threat lol?
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 5 pts · 99d
Lots Of Love
Little Old Ladies
Languishing Over Lancaster
Lovely Onlyfans Laddies
Flower@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 99d
Literally Outright Lies.
Aids@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 98d
lol
Suavevillain@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 98d
It is legit hard not to do it lol.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 99d
That’s a lie ^^
chrizzly@feddit.org · 1 pts · 98d
Tbf it's fairly easy :D ^^
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 98d
true ^^ xD
Chezus9247@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 99d
roflmao
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 99d
Literally impossible lol
InterestingUsername@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 99d
lol
Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 98d
Millennials are in their 40’s ffs
BehavioralClam@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 98d
That's why it's a middle aged guy in the meme. Also, it's goodo have older people talking like normal humans and not corporate chatbots.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 98d
Maybe the generation who historically is most into texting is doing it right actually lol
Naz@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 98d
Lol lmao
👋👏
ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 98d
LOL XD
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 98d
lol yeah this is very accurate lol
slaacaa@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 99d
lol
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 99d
Do what I want lol
someguy3@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 99d
ROFL
los0220@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 98d
It's really not that hard XD
lemminger@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 98d
xD
brave_lemmywinks@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 99d
looooool
niktemadur@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 99d
Why does he look like Colin Hanks?
Fichtre@programming.dev · 2 pts · 99d
HA ! We don't do that in honhon baguette land mdr
GhostFace@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 98d
There's no difference between this and emojis. People use them out of nervousness.
0x0@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 98d
ok boomer 🍆💦☠️
33550336@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 99d
Relatable lol
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 99d
I found one!
HuePony@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 99d
)
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 98d
Its because this stupid word was everywhere when our minds were being trained on IRC and MSN lol
vaionko@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 98d
I'm older gen Z and definitely use lol, lol
Dequei@piefed.social · 2 pts · 99d
It's xd not lol xd
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 98d
No u wrong lol
N0tTr0xy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 98d
Might be possible if you consume a trace of xylol
Leviathan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 98d
It's weird to be one of the only millennials I know who doesn't use lol at all. It always feels so weird when I try. I think it's because I never used MSN growing up.
Soleos@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 98d
I mean, in-person North American boomers had the effusive smile. Basically the same thing.
quarkquasar@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 98d
Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 99d
kamen@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 98d
Mild kek
BingBong@sh.itjust.works · -10 pts · 99d
This is more of a boomer thing than a millennial thing though?
Ilandar@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 99d
It's not, but if you're seeing Boomers using it too it's because their children are often Millennials.
Zwiebel@feddit.org · 2 pts · 99d
The smileys :D :) B) and so on were invented by boomer nerds in the pre-www era.
lol was definitetly capitalized LOL in the (milennial?) beginning
Ilandar@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 99d
Yeah, I used to use "LOL" more as a teenager on MSN, etc. At some point it became more exaggerated; people began using it to show genuine laughter or to mock others, and "lol" became a more relaxed acknowledgement of general humour.
Another interesting change is "lmao". That also used to be capitalised and used to indicate a level of laughter greater than "LOL", but at some point it became lowercase and very passive aggressive. I almost exclusively see it being used to taunt/mock others, often by Gen Z.