• @brap
    97•10 months ago

    Oh shit I’m in this picture lol

  • @[email protected]English
    65•10 months ago

    I have to check my previous couple messages to make sure I didn’t add “lol” at the end of them so I don’t make it weird by saying lol too much

    Lol

  • @So_zetta_slowpoke
    63•10 months ago

    I’ll stop doing this when we make a new punctuation that conveys my need for people to like me lol

    • deweydecibelEnglish
      17•10 months ago

      We did, they’re called emojis.

      Gen z seems to have figured that out, too. They use emojis like punctuations, in much the same way we use lol. I was annoyed by it at first but I got used to.

      • @[email protected]English
        16•10 months ago

        I’m pretty sure Millennials never caught onto that because we either used emoticons, or were traumatized into thinking that emojis were somehow “girly”. So the lol or lmao ended up being the way to show emotion/sentiment.

        • @yamanii
          8•10 months ago

          It was because there were all kinds of tacky and terrible looking emoticon packs back then, pretty much everyone agreed you looked like a dork. Nowadays they are used to produce shitposts.

          • @theangryseal
            3•10 months ago

            Everyone who used them back in the day had malware too.

            Google dawt cawm… Fun smily face pack 4 chat on yahoo and aim Download Ooh, desktop strippers? Sweet! I’ll go ahead and get that too. Oh no way, a purple ape assistant! Sweet, lemme git that. I’ll be ur buddy bonzi.

            Remember porn dialers? They’d call 1-900 numbers in the background when your computer was idle and make parents really angry.

            At least I think that’s what they did.

        • @[email protected]
          3•10 months ago

          I use emojis when talking to specific people, lol with others and some I don’t use any text slang at all.

          Strangely because I grew up with lots of phpBB forums, the few of them that I still engage with for things like classic cars and farm talk I always use the emojis because that’s what we always did :mrgreen:

      • @aulin
        1•10 months ago

        What? Are we out of sync? As a millennial I use a lot of emoji, and gen z’ers almost don’t use any, and tell me it’s cringe to use them.

  • RandomStickman
    44•10 months ago

    Gotta add it to lighten up the dark thoughts and the implications of the message lol

      • @AnticorpEnglish
        10•10 months ago

        I use “haha” when I actually laugh out loud, since “lol” just means “I’m not being serious” or “I’m mildly amused right now” these days, even though it is literally an abbreviation for laughing out loud.

  • @[email protected]
    31•10 months ago

    I used to end every sentence with lol

    I mean, I still do more often than I’d like to admit lol

  • @[email protected]
    26•10 months ago

    I try to write the extended “Lots of Love” now instead of shortening it to “lol” every time.

  • @[email protected]
    25•10 months ago

    lol, that’s silly. I do it at the start so that I can punctuate with an ascii emoticon, even in forms of communication where it’s not supported. ;)

  • no banana
    24•10 months ago

    That’s fucking hilarious lol

  • BlanketsWithSmallpoxEnglish
    21•10 months ago

    I’ve literally been called out on using lol on Lemmy. Probably ~3 months back or so?

    I forget how I responded, but it definitely would’ve had lol in it a few times just for emphasis.

    Guys, we’re on knockoff reddit, not a debate forum. Having a few lols when pointing out hypocrisy or incorrect shit with citations is just the creme of the lol crop.

  • DestideEnglish
    19•10 months ago

    Hi guys my wife left me and I have to put my dog down LOL