I made this thing called LOL Verifier: a device that only lets you type lol if you’ve actually laughed out loud pic.twitter.com/Gsc63yGEm0
— Brian Moore (@lanewinfield) January 3, 2023
Because we live in fallen times, it has become commonplace for people to use initalisms, such as LOL or LMAO, instead of actually communicating in the English language properly.
Once upon a time, people used the initalism LOL to represent actually laughing out loud during text-based communication. Then that degeneration of the English language decayed into representing mild amusement.
Now LOL is a punctuation mark that has no meaning beyond an acknowledgement of having read something that someone else has typed. It is a sort of online grunt that emerges as a sputtering, eschatological gasp from a dying civilization.
Standing athwart this catastrophic outcome is digital tinkerer Brian Moore. His LOL Verifier records you to make sure that you're actually laughing when you type LOL. It will not allow you to proceed unless you are, indeed, laughing out loud.
-via Laughing Squid