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- memes@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- memes@lemmy.ml
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
It is a millennial trauma response.
https://youtube.com/shorts/m-MYPdqkycE
Ooooooh that took me ages to break and only from being harassed about it.
I replaced it, almost exclusively, with the happy sweating emoji 😅 because it properly conveys what I want to communicate. The hope and anxiety. Hope that I will be properly understood, and anxiety knowing I won’t.
Lol
Without the tracking bullshit: https://youtube.com/shorts/m-MYPdqkycE
Oh thanks, I didn’t realize. Edited to remove. What does it track?
It’s a token so Youtube can track user groups. Basically, if Youtube can ID every user that clicks on that link, YouTube knows that those users share something in common. And if that link gets indexed by Google’s crawlers,Youtube also knows what those users have in common.
YouTube can map out friend groups, acquaintances, families and online groups.
Gross. I will fix that going forward, thank you!
How do you fix it?
When you paste a yt link, if the end part has ?si= followed by a string of letters, delete anything from the right end of the link up through the question mark.
eg:
(normally the ?si= part doesn’t have spaces)
becomes:
Thank you!! I will keep this in mind when posting links!
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I hate this mirror I’m being shown.
As an elder millennial with social anxiety and late ADHD diagnosis related guilt trauma, I feel seen and it brings me both joy and shame 😄
These responses are making me scared to actually watch the video
You should! It’s very illuminating and a good watch 😁
I use lol at the start, but more often I’ll use XD or :P at the end of a sentence in lieu of lol.
I hate how much sense this makes lol
this is accurate
edit: I have been told at work that I’m too difficult/aggressive/rude because of my straightforward text conversation manner. I add lols to messages to make tone more clear. every time I do that, I think of the millenial lol and that I’m not even doing it by choice there. dw, there are plenty of conversations at work that I do use it willingly in though. and overly much, at time
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I don’t know if you want to responds but I’m going to give it anyways since your comment was still in my inbox
I’m a dude that’s clearly a dude, but no aggressive appearance or attitude or anything. it’s just that I am a remote employee and so I’m often dealing with people who haven’t even met me in person yet, or if they have maybe it’s only been once. and I’m working on so many different things that I’m not going to take the time to do pleasantries for each thing