• tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
    2·
    13 minutes ago

    I alternate between that and “haha”. You can pry my lol off my cold dead lolerskate feet as I fly away in my roflcopter

  • ITGuyLevi@programming.dev
    3·
    1 hour ago

    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.

  • Semperverus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    16 hours ago

    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.

      • slappyfuck@lemmy.ca
        2·
        2 hours ago

        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”.

      • Zammy95@lemmy.world
        8·
        15 hours ago

        “it’s similar too” or “it reminds me” I think? That’s how I’d describe it from my understanding

        • slappyfuck@lemmy.ca
          2·
          1 hour ago

          That’s correct! It started out as “it’s giving X vibes” to state the similarity, then just naturally shortened to “it’s giving”.

  • Zink@programming.dev
    19·
    16 hours ago

    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.

    • slappyfuck@lemmy.ca
      2·
      1 hour ago

      Yeah I was gonna say! We Xennials absolutely add the lol too. But I guess “true” Gen Xers don’t?

  • A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl
    102·
    14 hours ago

    Lemmy is full of boomers Who sometimes feel they never have meet a person in their 20’s, as a gen Z, I have only one thing to say, lol

  • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    15 hours ago

    Gen X/Millenial or Oregon trailer or whatever here: Having a hard time not ended every sentence with a FUCK.

    FUCK