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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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[–] -2 points 1 day ago (12 children)

I've seen that with FTW where some people think it means 'for the win' or something like that

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  • [–] 28 points 1 day ago* (8 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 day ago* (6 children)

    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

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  • [–] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    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'

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    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.

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