tweet: Millennials use “lol” like STOP at the end of a telegram lol

tumblr response: REGRET TO INFORM YOU YOUR SON HAS DIED FROM TRENCH FOOT LOL HE SERVED WITH COURAGE AND HONOR LOL PLEASE ACCEPT OUR DEEPEST CONDOLENCES LOL

  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
    15·
    17 hours ago

    I’m positive it was “for the win” long before “fuck the world”. This sounds like Gen Z co-opting our acronym and gaslighting us into thinking we’re wrong, to me.

    • xylol@leminal.space
      3·
      16 hours ago

      I guess it meant ‘forever two wheels’ or ‘fuck the world’ pre-internet. Im not sure exactly where i picked it up as fuck the world but thats just always what it meant to me growing up in the 90’s

      • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
        5·
        16 hours ago

        I’m an older millennial, and I definitely never heard it used for anything other than “for the win”, but if we’re talking pre-internet, it’s very possible that it was a regional thing. I don’t recall ever seeing the acronym pre-internet at all.