Phrases like A/S/L and TTYL may have bit the dust post-chatroom era. But there’s one term from the early days of the Internet that continues on as a major part of our lexicon: LOL. It’s an acronym, a ...

There are several impressive top laners in League of Legends that dominate each other when going head to head. If you're a LoL pro, you know top lane is where most 1v1 matches take place, so having a ...

What are the best League of Legends champions right now? Metas change, the LoL tier list will fluctuate, and it could be that your favorite champion might not be in a great place right now. While you ...

The internet slang term "LOL" (laughing out loud) has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary, to the mild dismay of language purists. But where did the term originate? And is it really a threat ...

There's a deceitful act I've been engaging in for years—lol—but it wasn't until recently, while texting a massive rant to a friend, that I became aware of just how bad it is. I'd just sent an ...

Are you overly reliant on an emotional-support “lol” at the end of a text? Do you stop yourself from adding “lol” to work emails and Slack messages? Are you, by chance, a millennial? In the comments ...

University of Pittsburgh provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. Laughter is uniquely human. Sometimes deliberate, sometimes uncontrollable, we laugh out loud to signal our reaction to a ...

A Korean word? A new boy band? This new acronym is replacing LOL and ROFL on social media. By Shirley Wang First there was LOL (“laugh out loud”), an acronym that first appeared in the 1980s and ...

Those who read me regularly at The Week and on Twitter have probably noticed an occasional tendency toward nihilism. I don't mean that I sometimes act as if everything is permitted in a godless ...