I am gen x and I regret that I once engaged in this. I am so very sorry.
I’m so sorry for your loss lol
Language habits always shift with generations. It’s interesting how small things like this become part of how people connect and express tone online.
I alternate between that and “haha”. You can pry my lol off my cold dead lolerskate feet as I fly away in my roflcopter
I use this too much lol
same lol
I’m sorry but “lol” is a totem of the fact that our generation was the first that grew up with the internet. Instant messengers were a cornerstone of our youth, and it’s been embedded into our language. There is no changing this.
It would be like us asking you to stop using “it’s giving” or similar.
“fr fr”
It’s giving lol
What does “it’s giving” mean? I don’t think I’ve heard anyone say that.
It started out as being “it’s giving X vibes” to describe things being similar (as the person who replied before me said). As slang is wont to do, it got shortened to “it’s giving”.
“it’s similar too” or “it reminds me” I think? That’s how I’d describe it from my understanding
That’s correct! It started out as “it’s giving X vibes” to state the similarity, then just naturally shortened to “it’s giving”.
Wish granted. Haha
Or “Hah!”
It’s clear older edge-millinials were not consulted in the making of this meme.
Could make it worse with a hehe.
hoho
kekekek
555
huehuehue
wwwww
teehee
ははは
bur
wish granted, uwu.
Shishishi
Heh heh. 👹
Due to your actions placing this company in a bad light, your employment is hereby terminated with immediate effect. Tee hee xoxo
Haha at the end definitely bothers me lol
what really bothers me is jajaja
Lmao
Firmly Gen Y here and I use it all the damn time, but I blame that on computers not showing up until I was an awkward teen in high school and needed a neutral way to respond where people wouldn’t think I was AFK. We didn’t have ways to react to messages so lol and every varient (up to and including the roflcopter, lol) became our way to fill the silence. We were a generation that developed a way to communicate that you found annoying… just like every other generation, GenX gave us “Whatever” as the exclamation of frustrated, GenZ gave us stuff like “drip” for great fashion taste… GenY had a 9 key layout to type as we entered the workforce so we tried to keep it short.
Gen X was meh
It’s a good tone indicator
Indeed, lol is not the same as haha
It’s more of a sarcastic vibe. Which fits, because you are definitely not laughing out loud when you write lol
Uppercase LOL feels like a haha fuck them kind of schadenfreude laugh to me.
Perhaps LOL is a softer version of HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, which I use to the same effect.
Haha, hehe, heh, hehheh are all very different.
I’m just a bit old to be a millennial (The Oregon Trail generation, thank you very much) and I will often add a “, lol” to the end of a sentence just to hopefully help the lighthearted tone come through.
Yeah I was gonna say! We Xennials absolutely add the lol too. But I guess “true” Gen Xers don’t?
How will people know my tone? It’s stupid, but effective.
Lol.
I literally can’t stop myself lol
It’s a problem lmao
I ain’t using the skull emoji as a replacement for perfectly good ASCII
Some of you youngins have never typed a >.< and it shows
bro 💀
Ok boomer
I cannot unless I substitute in :)
Use :3 just to make it awkward.
You can pry :3 from my cold, dead, hands
lol :3
RAWR XD
What about :D
:P sends its regards.
Haha IKR XD
lol. lmao, even.
