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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

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[–] GargleBlaster@feddit.org 45 points 2 days ago (2 children)

There was a meme where a mother thought lol means 'lots of love' which lead to 'your grandma died, lol'

[–] join@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 days ago
[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Grandma died LMAO (Love, Mom And Others)

[–] firn@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 days ago
[–] XiJinpingStanAccount@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's a piece of punctuation that signals the precedeing text was meant to be lighthearted and to please not take it too seriously. Which is very much needed as on the internet sometimes people take things very seriously.

[–] 1Malayali@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] baronofclubs@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

chill bro lol its not that serious lol

[–] 1Malayali@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Chill bro lol

[–] Ethalis@jlai.lu 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Born too late to lol, born too early to 67

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 days ago

Born just in time to lmao?

[–] folaht@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Don't lol 'till you get enough

[–] Kefla@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago

This is how all veterans should be talked about

[–] 48954246@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I feel seen lol

[–] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I had to watch the World Trade Center collapse on live TV when I was 9 years old lol I will use lol however and whenever I see fit lol

[–] erinyes@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago

i had to learn about the jumpers and hear people speculate on their motivation on the evening news lol. i had to live through the subsequent extremification of american politics and watch it destroy not only several countries but my hope for the future lol. what a way to start middle school lol.

[–] WereCat@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well… I feel called out absolute value of o

[–] TheHotze@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

What an interesting pronunciation of tie fighter.

[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

It's so hard to leave off. It like totally sets the noncommittal tone or whatever that I'm going for

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

bottoms gain access to the humble :3

[–] LpQr26@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

When i read it, I dont read a difference to STOP

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

Don't LOL believing!

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Don't lol thinking about tomorrow.

Don't lol it'll soon be here.

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 6 points 2 days ago

All right LOL collaborate and listen
Ice is back with my brand new invention

[–] awesomeperson300@reddthat.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What’s a telegram? Is it the app?

[–] khanh@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

TL;DR an old form of communication (before and during WWI) where people used electrical signals and morse code to send messages to each other.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

i think LOL is used similarly to singlish "lah" sometimes

[–] Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Way go generalize, lol

"Lol" is just so we can joke about killing ourselves without getting sent to the hospital. Especially important since the bastardization and rebranding of "literally".

Because my generation is so hopeless that I literally want to drive off a fucking bridge into a volcano, infested with wolf-pirhanna hybrids.

Lol jk ;) 🤭

[–] jade52@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I stopped saying since it was bullied out of me by the youth.