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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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[–] 34 points 1 day ago (8 children)

It's so no one thinks we're being aggressive!

lol

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  • [–] 7 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

    OR to emphasize that you're being passive aggressive. lol.

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  • [–] -1 points 21 hours ago* (2 children)

    I've always interpreted it the opposite way. To me, it comes off as highly sarcastic and feels mocking. I always read it as an insult, like the person is dismissively laughing at what I said.

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  • [–] 60 points 1 day ago (20 children)

    No shame, I'll continue unapologetically lol

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    Oh thanks, I didn’t realize. Edited to remove. What does it track?

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  • [–] 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    Gross. I will fix that going forward, thank you!

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  • [–] 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

    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
    
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  • [–] 4 points 15 hours ago

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

    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 😄

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  • [–] 2 points 19 hours ago*

    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

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  • [–] 14 points 1 day ago (15 children)

    I've seen this happen before but with boomers who thought "lol" meant "lots of love".

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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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  • [–] 8 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

    I've always preferred to begin my statements with lol.

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    Really puts the "oh well" in LOL.

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  • [–] 10 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • I guess we don't have the skibidi riz anymore lol

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    I feel personally attacked

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  • [–] 5 points 13 hours ago

    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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  • [–] 2 points 19 hours ago

    I would never lmao

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  • [–] 2 points 9 hours ago*

    It’s funny because lol is never pronounced in English, only written, but it actually does get vocalized in other languages that borrowed it.

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  • [–] 2 points 15 hours ago

    This is the first time I've actually laughed out loud in a while, lel.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago

    Funny enough I actually saved it lol

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  • [–] 1 point 13 hours ago

    This is the way lol

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    [–] 22 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Born too late to lol, born too early to 67

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    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago*

    I feel seen lol

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day 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.

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  • [–] 6 points 23 hours ago (1 child)

    Well… I feel called out absolute value of o

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago

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

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  • Way go generalize, lol

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  • "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 ;) 🤭

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    bottoms gain access to the humble :3

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    What’s a telegram? Is it the app?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

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

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