tweet: Millennials use “lol” like STOP at the end of a telegram lol
tumblr response: REGRET TO INFORM YOU YOUR SON HAS DIED FROM TRENCH FOOT LOL HE SERVED WITH COURAGE AND HONOR LOL PLEASE ACCEPT OUR DEEPEST CONDOLENCES LOL
My mum would always end messages with lol. It wasn’t until a year or so that me and my sister realised she meant lots of love.
I would never lmao
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I’ve always preferred to begin my statements with lol.
lol no you don’t
What happened?
I guess we don’t have the skibidi riz anymore lol
No shame, I’ll continue unapologetically lol
Same lol
It is a millennial trauma response.
this is accurate
edit: I have been told at work that I’m too difficult/aggressive/rude because of my straightforward text conversation manner. I add lols to messages to make tone more clear. every time I do that, I think of the millenial lol and that I’m not even doing it by choice there. dw, there are plenty of conversations at work that I do use it willingly in though. and overly much, at time
I use lol at the start, but more often I’ll use XD or :P at the end of a sentence in lieu of lol.
Lol
I hate this mirror I’m being shown.
As an elder millennial with social anxiety and late ADHD diagnosis related guilt trauma, I feel seen and it brings me both joy and shame 😄
Without the tracking bullshit: https://youtube.com/shorts/m-MYPdqkycE
Oh thanks, I didn’t realize. Edited to remove. What does it track?
It’s a token so Youtube can track user groups. Basically, if Youtube can ID every user that clicks on that link, YouTube knows that those users share something in common. And if that link gets indexed by Google’s crawlers,Youtube also knows what those users have in common.
YouTube can map out friend groups, acquaintances, families and online groups.
Gross. I will fix that going forward, thank you!
How do you fix it?
When you paste a yt link, if the end part has ?si= followed by a string of letters, delete anything from the right end of the link up through the question mark.
eg:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLQ4by3lUJo ? si = bQE9ROEkQSQ(normally the ?si= part doesn’t have spaces)
becomes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLQ4by3lUJo
I hate how much sense this makes lol
I’ll continue apologeticall. sorry there bud, but I’m not going to stop eh. sometimes you just need to give’r
Rofl
It’s so no one thinks we’re being aggressive!
lol
I think it’s our trauma.
OR to emphasize that you’re being passive aggressive. lol.
OR to reply to a message, without actually having anything of substance to add to the conversation.
Lol
I’ve always interpreted it the opposite way. To me, it comes off as highly sarcastic and feels mocking. I always read it as an insult, like the person is dismissively laughing at what I said.
lol
Lol what?
Lol. what? .
What, what?
I’ve seen this happen before but with boomers who thought “lol” meant “lots of love”.
I’ve seen that with FTW where some people think it means ‘for the win’ or something like that
I definitely associate FTW with ‘for the win’ first. Now I’m heading to wikipedia to read the disambiguation page to see what else it means.
Edit: for the win, for those wondering, and fuck the world have wildly different meanings.
for the win, for those wondering, and fuck the world have wildly different meanings.
Whereas “fuck the world for the win” is the general career strategy of Bonnie Blue.
I don’t know if it’s a generational thing but I also read it as meaning “For the win”. It would need to be in a very specific context for me to see someone meaning “fuck the world”
Late millennial here btw
I’m positive it was “for the win” long before “fuck the world”. This sounds like Gen Z co-opting our acronym and gaslighting us into thinking we’re wrong, to me.
I guess it meant ‘forever two wheels’ or ‘fuck the world’ pre-internet. Im not sure exactly where i picked it up as fuck the world but thats just always what it meant to me growing up in the 90’s
I’m an older millennial, and I definitely never heard it used for anything other than “for the win”, but if we’re talking pre-internet, it’s very possible that it was a regional thing. I don’t recall ever seeing the acronym pre-internet at all.
Big trans wiener?
Butthole Teleportation wanderer, actually
weird im also a millennial, I asked my brother who is older just now what FTW meant, and he said the same thing, fuck the world. we probably picked it up on tv at some point. looking it up it looks like it was a hell’s angels tattoo thing ‘forever two wheels, or fuck the world’
Cause that is what it means
What does it mean apart from “for the win”? It definitely meant that in the online spaces I was in when I was a teenager.
this is what I could find https://valiantbiker.com/blogs/news/decoding-ftw-in-the-biker-community-what-does-it-really-mean
Im not sure exactly how I came across it growing up
Really puts the “oh well” in LOL.
Hahahaha
I feel personally attacked
Don’t worry lol.
