It's so no one thinks we're being aggressive!
lol
It's so no one thinks we're being aggressive!
lol
No shame, I'll continue unapologetically lol
It is a millennial trauma response.
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.
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
Ooooooh that took me ages to break and only from being harassed about it.
I replaced it, almost exclusively, with the happy sweating emoji 😅 because it properly conveys what I want to communicate. The hope and anxiety. Hope that I will be properly understood, and anxiety knowing I won’t.
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 😄
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'll continue apologeticall. sorry there bud, but I'm not going to stop eh. sometimes you just need to give'r
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.
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
Big trans wiener?
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'
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.
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
Lol what?
Lol
I've always preferred to begin my statements with 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.
your grandfather just died lol
dad and I are getting a divorce lol
I have cancer lol
I feel personally attacked
Being raised by boomers will do that to you. Can’t come off aggressive or you’ll have to deal with their rage or a tantrum
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It’s funny because lol is never pronounced in English, only written, but it actually does get vocalized in other languages that borrowed it.
Born too late to lol, born too early to 67
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.
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
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.
Well… I feel called out absolute value of o
It's so hard to leave off. It like totally sets the noncommittal tone or whatever that I'm going for
"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 ;) 🤭
bottoms gain access to the humble :3
What’s a telegram? Is it the app?
When i read it, I dont read a difference to STOP
I stopped saying since it was bullied out of me by the youth.
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