I am late 90s Gen Z and still do it. I guess I am lame and cringe now huh?
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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.
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.
What does "it's giving" mean? I don't think I've heard anyone say that.
"it's similar too" or "it reminds me" I think? That's how I'd describe it from my understanding
lol xd
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
I've never heard anyone actually complain about this, lol.
ROFLMAO!
LOL lol
No lol
Semi-related:
Gen X/Millenial or Oregon trailer or whatever here: Having a hard time not ended every sentence with a FUCK.
FUCK
LOL 🤪
How will people know my tone? It's stupid, but effective.
Lol.
I literally can't stop myself lol
It's a problem lmao
Okay rofl
Got em lmao
lol. lmao, even.
Wish granted. Haha
Could make it worse with a hehe.
Due to your actions placing this company in a bad light, your employment is hereby terminated with immediate effect. Tee hee xoxo
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how do you ask someone to change their whole identity like that
Username, lol
(glares intensely)
It's a good tone indicator
wait gen z doesn't do this? so now I'm last gen? what?
Well crap my username announces my age.
Well crap my username announces my age, lol.
There, fixed it for you, lol
I ain't using the skull emoji as a replacement for perfectly good ASCII
Some of you youngins have never typed a >.< and it shows
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I hear you.
Hear me out, though, don't censor the way other people speak as long as that speech is inoffensive.
If it makes people happy to add lol, or any other thing into their speaking pattern, then that's perfectly fine.
If you have a judgment about it, keep it to yourself.
There are more important things to worry about.
This. Unless it's uwu. Unironic uwu users must be shunned for the good of us all
uwudn't!
It's time to just support cringe as long as it's not fascist cringe.
It's time to be groovy with any type of 'other' that accepts others.
I'm a Xennial, so I put lol at the end of my sentences, but hate it. lol
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Lol, no.
I could never bring myself to do that, actually.
So I just ended up replacing it with an equally annoying onomatopoeic expression to end almost every sentence, haha
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I literally can't help it lol
It's just what I do haha
Ho ho ha ha hee hee ha ha
Ho ho ha ha hee hee ha ha
Ho ho ha ha hee hee ha ha
Ooooooihhhhhhhh
(If you know this reference and can hear it, you’re really weird)
Sure lol
Cry about it, lol.
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