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Individuals displaying mischievous, spiteful, or teasing behavior in a playful manner, rather than engaging in genuinely cruel actions.
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Did you literally read the post?
Hi. Third party here. They're correct: that's literally not what literally means. Ok thanks bye.
Fourth party here: definitions are descriptive not prescriptive and vary by common usage. Due to current common usage, literally means both literally and figuratively, with the original definition slowly losing ground. So no one is correct.
If everybody was jumping off a bridge, would you do that, too?
Depends on how many survive, but I don't see what that has to do with linguistics.