Oof acknowledges someone’s feelings, and bruh expresses empathy. These sentiments are important and often overlooked. You don’t have to always launch into your own story. Simply acknowledging and empathizing is a powerful way to build social bonds.

Also brevity is the soul of wit, so oof and bruh might qualify as the greatest things anyone has ever said in history.

bruh

I bring you: broof

contributes confusion to the conversation

Me when the next generation comes up with slang and I don't like it:

Showing empathy is a valuable contribution.

Me being equally useless with "oof bruh".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backchannel_(linguistics)

"I acknowledge that I could interject my own thoughts here, but choose not to. Please continue with that topic, I am interested."

Of course, doesn't work as well in online forums.

Big oof

That’s crazy, wow

Ugh

Oof

Yikes.

Woof

...dude.

bros never heard about phatic expressions💀

Ok, boomer

Broof.

In my college Sociology class, my professor ran us through a couple situations, then ran them back for us. Gender-wise, women tended to make small interjections, nod their heads, etc, as the conversation went among, to indicate that they were listening. Which apparently leads into two "classic" complaints between M/F partners.

Men tended to think that women were "always changing their minds", because the men interpreted the women's nods and interjections as agreement instead of "I'm listening to you".

And women tended to think that men "weren't listening to them" because men never provided this feedback.

☝️This

Dude..

Damn.

Shit.

That is whack.

Bruh

Bruh

Same

Mood.

Hell yeah

Oof, bruh, same..

I probably didn't want to have the conversation in the first place, now you want me to contribute to it too?

Thats kinda the point

oof

The way yanks use bro or bruh is like glass in my ear. Its so boorish and stupid sounding.

Me saying broof to actively take away from the conversation:

Ope

Wat

Ding ding ding!

snick

“Oh shit! Sorry pall!”

Literally nobody:

POV: Bruh, not cool.

This is like when people repeat the joke contributing nothing to the conservation.