- lolz: Occasionally used in place of LOL.
- lulz: Often used to denote laughter at someone who is the victim of a prank, or a reason for performing an action. This variation is often used on the Encyclopedia dramatica wiki and 4chan image boards. According to a New York Times article about Internet trolling, “lulz means the joy of disrupting another’s emotional equilibrium.”[31] Can be used as a noun — e.g. “do it for the lulz.”, shortened into “ftlulz” (to distinguish it from “ftl” - “for the loss”).[32][33] See also LulzSec.
- lolwut: lol + wut, used to indicate bemused laughter, or confusion.
- Lawl or Lal: Pseudo-pronunciation of LOL. Saying “lawl” is sometimes meant in mockery of those who use the term LOL, and is not meant to express laughter.
- LOLOLOLOL: For added emphasis, LOL can be appended with any number of additional iterations of “OL”. In cases such as these, the abbreviation is not to be read literally (i.e., “Laughing out loud out loud out loud out loud”), but is meant to suggest several LOLs in a row.
- trolololol or trollololol: A portmanteau of troll and LOL iterated. Indicates that the prank or joke was made by internet trolls, or the user thinks the prank or joke qualifies as internet trolling.
- LMAO: For “Laughing my ass off”.[4] Variant: LMFAO (“Laughing my fucking ass off”).
- ROFL: For “Rolling on the floor laughing”. It is often combined with LMAO for added emphasis as ROFLMAO (“Rolling on the floor laughing my ass off”). Variant: ROTFL.[34]
- Roflcopter: A portmanteau of ROFL and helicopter and popularized by the website www.roflcopter.com. The website contained the animated gif and nothing else. The term was supposedly first used by a Blizzard Entertainment moderator in the Warcraft III forum in 2003.[citation needed]
- lqtm: For “Laughing quietly to myself”.[35]
- *G* or *g*: For “grins”.[36] Like “lulz” it is used in the initialism “J4G” (“just for grins”).[37]
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