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[–] [email protected] 87 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

That's my xD, lmao, >:)

Lmao

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago

You add it after trauma dumping to have plausible deniability lol

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

Live, Love, LOL

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Hehe reads sexual to my millennial eyes

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

It's my emotional support mood indicator!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Like we didn't use msn emoticons

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Lol, what a funny meme, lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

We use lol to honor trolololol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

This is me lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Life is a joke so why not laugh at it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

You'll see it's all a show

Keep 'em laughin' as you go

Just remember that the last laugh is on you!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

It stays til the day I die lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

haha stop me lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

lol wait this is a millenial thing?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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

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