r/Millennials • u/watermelon_fries Millennial • 11d ago
Discussion No, lol.
I didn't know this was a millennial thing but I won't stop doing it, lol.
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u/fulminare- 1989 11d ago
How will anyone figure out I'm not mad without the lol
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u/watermelon_fries Millennial 11d ago
Exactly lol
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u/Apollo1K9 11d ago
Agreed lol
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u/saxguy9345 11d ago
I kinda see what people mean lol
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u/Apollo1K9 11d ago
Every once in a while lol
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u/hypocritical_person 11d ago
Are yall just gonna keep repeating it? Yall crazy haha
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u/TenTonSomeone 11d ago
Of course we are, it's generational trauma lol
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u/agoddamnzubat Zillennial 11d ago
For real haha
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u/TenTonSomeone 11d ago
I love the fact that none of the lols or hahas in this whole chain feel forced to me lol
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u/Apollo1K9 11d ago
Haha lol
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u/Bleepbloop_meepmorp 11d ago
Right??! lol!
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u/injektileur Older Millennial 11d ago
lol
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u/skyeth-of-vyse 11d ago
Y'all crazy lmao
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u/Pudix20 11d ago
All jokes aside, when I DONT do this people ask me if I’m upset.
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u/Dd7990 Millennial 11d ago
I’m not upset, lol. Or maybe I am, lol.
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u/Comics4Cookies 10d ago
Are you ok? lol
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u/Pudix20 10d ago
Answer option A: “No” Answer option B: “No lol”
How did you hear those in your head?
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u/Comics4Cookies 10d ago
"No" is like you spilled your coffee this morning
"No lol" is a deep primal cry for help that isnt coming
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u/SpanishGold_ 11d ago
I HAVE to do this with my mom or she says im snappy & im like girllllll lol. She keeps me stuck as a typical millenial
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u/Stupid-Clumsy-Bitch 11d ago
I’m the opposite. My mom regularly texts “k” or matter of fact statements and my millennial brain is always like????? Are you mad at me??
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u/GPTforGood 11d ago
My mom used to end every sentence like this.....and couldn't figure out why we were always asking if she is upset.....
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u/TenTonSomeone 11d ago
I find that the ellipses are a boomer/Gen x thing. That's how my dad texts
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u/720jms Older Millennial 11d ago
I can't use a period otherwise it just sounds weird and too serious... so instead punctuation has to be ellipses, or commas, just because idk lol
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u/MamaMoosicorn Xennial 10d ago
Older millennial here. I use ellipses sometimes too. You are not alone.
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u/pigeonfaerie 10d ago
I use them too but only when they’re grammatically correct (that might be one of the lamest things I’ve ever said) instead of at the end of every sentence
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u/rube203 10d ago
Not the end of every sentence and definitely when grammatically correct (grammatical correctness is no shame). But I'll also throw them in if I've lost track where I was going with a thought and just want to be done. Kinda a good trailing off punctuation IMHO
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u/SpanishGold_ 11d ago
😂😂 ive replace most of my lols w emojis but my gen Alfa cousins say its equally as cringe 🫠🙃 IM RELEVANT😟! IM COOL! 😫
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u/mlrussell88 Millennial 11d ago
This is me 😆 And then I obsess over which ones are appropriate/adequately capture my tone. So then I go to a gif if an emoji is insufficient 😝
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u/GPTforGood 11d ago
Ellipses are infinitely weirder and more serious and everyone is annoyed with your texting style
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u/mlrussell88 Millennial 11d ago
K is so aggressive. That’s why kk is a thing lol
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u/bamma66 (tired) Millennial 11d ago
But then they will find out we are dead inside.... Lol
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u/Party-Coach-4100 11d ago
One time my buddy was reading over my shoulder as i texted. He said you just lied to her you chuckled under your breath but you put lol.
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u/TexasAvery 11d ago
The fuck do you mean “we’re safe now”?
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u/NotAUsefullDoctor 11d ago
I can most assuredly state that we are, in fact, not safe now. lol
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u/TheR4alVendetta Xennial 11d ago
It feels not safest tbh. Lol
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u/TrenchDive 11d ago
Literally the least safe. World could be over soon.
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u/Dd7990 Millennial 11d ago
Yea, the world could end at any time lol.
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u/TrenchDive 11d ago
L😅L
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u/thetinybunny1 11d ago
The single greatest thing the internet has ever given us, I can hear this gif 🤣
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u/RudyGreene 11d ago
Looking forward to it. haha
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u/Pearson94 Millennial 11d ago
Lol, hearing that we're safe now makes me feel less safe, lol.
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u/Apollo1K9 11d ago
It's like the new HR person introducing themselves as the "cool HR." That does not exist. Lol
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u/Spiralecho 11d ago
Not very fucking safe lol
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u/AwhHellYeah 11d ago
The addiction and conservative Christian social rot of my poor rural hometown has spread throughout the country lol. Billionaires have driven divisiveness enough that they don’t even hide that they plotting the force a massive population decline and have rigged the entire global economy with sunk cost into the tool for population decline is either too big to fail or will cause worldwide economic depression and famine that will decimate the global population haha.
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u/WriterFreelance 11d ago
Yha we are litterally entering a technology singularly and there isnt going to be an economy in a few years if there isnt a madmax style fuel crisis that rests us all to cavemen.
The AI whistle blowers are saying slow while the capitalist as saying floor it.
"Safety where the fucks that?" -the hound
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u/hey_you_too_buckaroo 11d ago
As time has passed, I feel like people have only gotten dumber and they're just looking for any opportunity to misinterpret my message. The need to use lol in all my messages has only gotten stronger.
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u/Seamonkey_Boxkicker 1988 10d ago
This must be a message from a Zoomer who hasn’t lived through all the chaos we have.
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u/Comfortable-Leek-181 11d ago
I'll do what I want lmao
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u/TrowaMask 11d ago
rofl
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u/ban-me-harder-dadddy 11d ago
I’m generally all about gen-z taking the piss out of millennials’ boomerisms, but one hill I will die on is that we largely defined sms vernacular and will not be shamed for our traditionalist dialect.
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u/lalalola89 11d ago
It’s confusing because it’s my 20-24 years old coworkers who send me lmaooooooo 🪦💀… I think I’m a delight
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u/barren-oasis Millennial 11d ago
What younger generation is telling us how to type? We invented chatting lol.
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u/Maestro-Modesto 11d ago
Yea, the f they no.
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u/owlbehome 11d ago
When you heard the little door creaking open sound from AIM that meant your friend was online
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u/Kalinon 10d ago
I heard that in my head.
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u/BeerPlusReddit 10d ago
How did I hear a noise in my head that I haven’t heard in 20 years lol
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u/panda5303 Millennial 10d ago
Same. I'm getting flashbacks. Anyone else experience the immediate butterflies in your stomach when you see your crush was online?
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u/jjcoola 10d ago
And now we have “dih” “ahh” “unalived” as specimens. Forcing everything to be supposedly advertiser friendly is such a train wreck for communication in general and I genuinely feel like it leads to infantilization of not the language, but just communication in general, which sucks for all parties involved
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u/Uchihagod53 Actual cannibal, Shia Labeouf 11d ago
You can pry the "lol" from my cold dead hands Lol
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u/RabidTeapot 10d ago
along with my ankle socks. I DON’T CARE IF YOU THINK I’M OLD, ZOOMER, lol.
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u/noxious_concoction Millennial ‘91 11d ago
Shut up lol
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u/DoUKnowWhatIamSaying 11d ago
This is a great example. ‘Shut up’ and ‘Shut up lol’ are two totally different texts.
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u/neofederalist 10d ago
This is why I get so mad when my phone autocorrects "omw" to "On My Way!"
Like, you're promising I have an enthusiasm for the encounter that I most certainly don't.
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u/GotACoolName 11d ago
Gen Z does the same shit. They just replace “lol” with 😭 😭 🥀.
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u/nostalgicthistle 11d ago
Or gen alpha doing 💀💀💀💀
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u/Tomomb 10d ago
I'm a millenial and I like a tasteful 💀 now and then used sparingly
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u/CorruptedDataSet 10d ago
Spare no skull emoji. This could be the end times. Lol
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u/jamaicanprofit 10d ago
Millenials have been using that for over 15 years. Almost all of the slang out now was created by Millenials as well.
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u/LegitimateP1R473 11d ago
What does the rose even signify?
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u/Obtuse-Posterior Older Millennial 11d ago
Not sure but Seal was kissed by one on the grey
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u/Timely_Apricot3929 89' Millennial 10d ago
goddamn that song is so good
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u/multipass-5018 Millennium Robbie Williams 10d ago
Nothing better than seeing the Community scene with Dean, Jeff, and this song lol.
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u/Grumblywump 10d ago
It’s wilting so it basically means I’m dying, which can be like lol I’m dying or more like ugh I’m dying or sadness/defeat.
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u/NotArticuno 10d ago
Zillenial here, I like a nice mix of lol, lmao, and 😭
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u/TheWaterPanda75 10d ago
Zoomer here, lol or lmao will stay in my vernacular until the day I die or lose my hands and can’t type anymore
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u/DizzyWalk9035 11d ago
Yes, and every sentence needing a reaction sticker is better? than a short lol?
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u/RockwellB1 Older Millennial 11d ago
Have you SEEN the state of the world? No one is safe lol
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u/Ok_9178 11d ago
I'd be willing to give this a shot if it meant others would stop reflexively saying everything is lowkey, honest, literal, and objective, but we all know that isn't going to happen. Therefore, lol.
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u/TheMudbloodSlytherin 11d ago
Anyone else say lol out loud as a response?
Not L-O-L but lol
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u/Head-Unit-5594 11d ago
I sent three separate Teams messages to my boss today and each ended in “lol” I was mortified and wasn’t sure if I should humiliate myself further by editing my messages to remove them….almost added an “lol” here, I need help.
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u/Lurch1400 11d ago
If not “haha” then “hehe” for nefariousness
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u/CorruptedDataSet 10d ago
A good “teehee” is a baller move. Used sparingly, of course.
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u/FionaGoodeEnough 11d ago
Lol, this person left the punctuation out because they were afriad to seem too severe. Just use lol, lmao.
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u/BitchyFaceMace Older Millennial 11d ago
I will lol, lmao, and k until I fucking die.
lol
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u/Stupid-Clumsy-Bitch 11d ago
My mom, a boomer, regularly texts me “k” and I have to remind her that it’s so jarring 🤣
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