Brittany Wong is a senior reporter covering lifestyle topics at HuffPost. She is a graduate of UCLA and a native Angeleno. She can be reached at [email protected]
“My default mode is to feel that what I have to say isn’t important, so 'lol' is also sort of a great eraser,” one millennial said.Nick Russell, a millennial from Memphis, Tennessee, tacks “lol” onto texts to sidestep potentially awkward or loaded conversation.
Let Gen Z and Gen Alpha scoff at “lol” all they want. Most millennials say if you want to take their “lol,” you’ll have to pry it from their cold, dead hands.Too many emojis in texts can make you look unhinged. But you also don’t want to look like an ice queen. Even a simple, straightforward period at the end of a sentence feels too stern, Pasta said.
It started out as “laugh out loud,” but it’s long since transmogrified into a mark of humility and self-deprecation: “Don’t take this — or me — too seriously. I sure don’t.”“For millennials, it’s a way to either make a neutral message warmer and more casual or a way to make a more negative message polite,” Bahtina said. “It’s like hedging or minimizing a request with ‘no biggie if you disagree.’”Interestingly, every once in a while,"lol" is explicitly passive-aggressive.
Plus, millennials have grown up alongside social media, where criticism and judgment are rampant and the potential to be dragged is ever present.
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