• cobysev@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I voice chat with friends on Discord pretty regularly. I have one friend who, instead of laughing, will click a laugh track on our soundboard, filling the voice chat with boisterous sitcom laughter. I don’t know why, but that’s kind of unsettling.

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      2 months ago

      That kind of thing is funny if done infrequently but annoying if it’s all the time. I hope your friend does actually laugh a good chunk of the time

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        2 months ago

        I don’t think I’ve ever heard him laugh.

        It’s like posting “lol” or “roflmao” in text, when your face doesn’t even change IRL. Except we’re voice chatting, so he’s using a laugh track instead of “lol.”

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    2 months ago

    People who send audio of themselves laughing are the same people who shove multivitamins in their urethra. In fact I wouldn’t be surprised if they also eat fermented chocolate egg salad sandwiches on public transit too. Fuck those people.

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      lol serves its own grammatical function now I reckon.

      It’s a marker for response to irony (actual irony, Americans…), or as a way to indicate you think something is stupid to the point of humour, or as a kind of “that tracks”.

      Or at least, that’s how it’s used amongst people my age in Australia.

      I don’t think I use it in a positive sense at all any more

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        Fascinating! I still use it unironically mostly.

        Another one brought to my attention is ROFL. Though personally that one has aged out.

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      It is an evolution of the old “asdasdasd”, which popped into existence because it’s easier to type into game chat without lifting your left hand off the WASD keys.

      I once heard a young man laugh asdasdasd out loud. As in he actually made the sound “asdasdasd” when laughing instead of the more natural haha sound. Bizarre experience it was.