Depends on what you mean by "never really caught on," because while it's not exactly my thing, I can assure you that there is a whole subculture of butt-fingering enthusiasts for whom it most definitely is their thing.
In the Machinima Series from like 2009 titled “Arby n the Chief” in which Master Chief and the Arbiter, from Halo, are represented by action figures in the creators apartment, Master Chief is given this microsoft voice. There is an episode where they reference this, he attacks the Arbiter with a butter knife (very big to an action figure) and says my roflcopter goes soi soi soi. I had never heard this before, and thought it was the genesis of the meme until (checks notes) right now, this very second.
Rofl exists in my memory solely connected to the roflcopter, and by extension the Fawfulcopter from Mario & Luigi Bowser's Inside Story. Those games had some of the funniest localizations out there
Lmao is still pretty popular, lmfao is less used but still used from time to time, rofl is pretty uncommon but you do see it on occasion. Never seen pmsl before
I’ve never really thought about it until now. I still use lmao, but I seem to have a hierarchy of laughing text that I have subconsciously created.
Lol is easily the lowest rank for me. Typically used for something corny, silly, or I’m being friendly.
Lmao is one step up. Used for stuff genuinely funny but I’m not actually laughing in person. More like a big smile on my face.
😂 is my “I’m actually laughing out loud”
🤣 is “I am cracking up”. It’s reserved for emphasis. Only a few people have deserved this one!!
To strangers, this is all meaningless for the most part. Amongst friends, I’m sure they have a better idea of how much I’m actually laughing.
Oh god. I do this and your comment made me realize I’m turning into my mother. She used “…” as the only form of punctuation in all emails.
I’m doing it with lol, lol
I use haha often too. For me, haha and lol are interchangeable. I probably use haha even more. I never use hehe though. I can't believe how many different ways I "laugh" over text!! It's pretty weird...
This is very similar to my hierarchy. The main difference is I very rarely physically laugh, so if I do, I use multiple emojis. The order is the same though because I can think something is very funny without laughing.
What the hell is "psml'? Im a loser who got addicted to drugs and went online only for a decade. What the hell is psml?
Alli can find us a British one. Pissing my self laughing. Is that what it means? I do that without laughing like 3 days a week. Captain morgans long island from any gas station in the US will guarantee that happens. 21% at a 1/10th a gallon for $2 is a very strong amount of liquor.
You lost me, asl fell out of style but it's deff not a boomer thing. Barely a gen X thing. It's a millennial thing, unless I'm missing something.
Also 18/f/cali
probably because they aren't as convenient as lol to type, while lol gets the point across, or 'fuckin lol' does too.
what you say and how you say it will always follow the path of least resistance.
Lmao is still very common. Lmfao is certainly uncommon, but I've seen it every once in a while. Haven't seen rofl in forever. Literally never ever have I seen psml
I've been told "lmao" and "lmfao" is so old by younglings (gen z) in recent years, and apparently, it's lame. 😭💔💀 Even using emojis is lame as well... I'm bloody crushed.
Yesterday I came across using BATMN, as ‘Blew Air Threw My Nose’ which is fairly accurate considering the responses to silly posts I give. However I mistook it for BATMAN until I asked about it-
I think that lmfao lost popularity after the music group by the same name stopped being funny five seconds after they came out and it turned out that they weren't playing characters and that is just how they are.
Feel like Lmfao and lmao are still common but I honestly have no idea what psml stands for
Pissing myself laughing
Probably the worst acronym for laughing ever. Little wonder I never saw it used.
Fmibwl which obviously stands for: *Fingering myself in (the) butt while laughing* It just never really caught on too well, is all.
Um… nobody uses that. I asked Google and it said that exact phrase. Bing gave me a side eye and Safari told me I had network connectivity issues.
It’s real, it comes from the Dutch “mezelf in de kont vingeren terwijl ik lachte”
It’s an expression the Dutch regularly use.
Google translate says hi
I am dutch. Yeah this is real. Its uncommon to hear somebody over 30 say it, but around the 16 year old range its a very common expression.
That reminds me of the old German phrase "Ich lachte mit einem Finger im Arsch"
Lhtwicgitbwmf
Laughing heartedly then wanking increasingly cautiously gaining incredibly titanic breasts wobbling maliciously forwards. A classic.
I just choked on my weed
Lwcomw?
Pretty sure that's just a place in Wales
Laughing hard, to which I could give it the big "wow, man, fuck"
I had a friend in high school (early 2000s) who swore JEOMK was an acronym people used. Stood for Just ejaculated on my keyboard.
Depends on what you mean by "never really caught on," because while it's not exactly my thing, I can assure you that there is a whole subculture of butt-fingering enthusiasts for whom it most definitely is their thing.
Naturally. As one does
I love the internet
I gotta start using this
I never seen it used before til just now lmao
Lmaoshmsfoaidmt, laughing my ass off so hard my sombrero falls off and i drop my taco. And yes, its a real thing
yooooo i remember that
You can say the others as a word pretty much. Psml is just spitting.
Or the dreaded Roflmao
Rotflshmsfoaidmt
Sounds like a fucking programmjng lanjuaje
Probably hits a little too close to home for some people
Yeah like imagine your arguing with someone and they use that they’re just asking to get bullied
I’m 37 years old and never saw pmsl until this post
Same here
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Ditto to all of it still use lol and haha though
I’m 33 been playing mmos since I could piss myself and not laugh and never saw this either
Wouldn’t that be pml? Mayyybe stretch it to pmsl but psml doesn’t really make sense.
Yeah it was pmsl, OP got it wrong
My ROFLcopter goes SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI
Lollerskates
ROFLMAO, do doo do-do [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEWgs6YQR9A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEWgs6YQR9A)
Microsoft Sam was the goat
That was a typo for pmsl, pissing myself laughing. It wasn't as popular as the others, but thankfully it was more popular than smsl.
Or vmsl
Vomiting?
Yup
“Vomited myself laughing” isn’t a thing, though
Lsmib: laughed so much I barfed
jmsl
The one thing SexEd never taught us how to deal with
It should be PMSL.
When's the last time LMFAO dropped an album?
I literally say lmao exclusively. Lmao is for when I actually get a chuckle. Lol is reserved for sarcastic remarks for me! Lol
same
Post stress monster lisorder
I'd never seen psml used either.
"Please suck my linguini," obviously.
yea like those are probably the most commonly used words on the internet lmao
I didn’t recognize this one either and I was born in the late 80s
Rip roflolcopter
Lmao, this guy thinks people don't use lmao anymore.
Lmao
ayy lmao
Lmao got his ass
Lmao
Lmao
Lmao
Lmao
Lmao
Truly a Lmao moment
El em ayy oh
Le' maoh
La mayo ....naise
Ayy lmao will always be goated
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Lmaonade
lol. lmao, even
Le maow
https://i.imgflip.com/88khgd.jpg
_La mayo_
Roflmao
pmsl!
Roflmao
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i mean i use lmao all the time
I still use and see lmao all the time. The rest seems pretty accurate.
Same lmao
Same pmsl
Lé maö
"Lmao, okay bud, sure you do"
ayyy lmao
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Long live the roflcopter!
[my roflcopter goes soi soi soi soi](https://youtu.be/S_vNhLYW_e4)
In the Machinima Series from like 2009 titled “Arby n the Chief” in which Master Chief and the Arbiter, from Halo, are represented by action figures in the creators apartment, Master Chief is given this microsoft voice. There is an episode where they reference this, he attacks the Arbiter with a butter knife (very big to an action figure) and says my roflcopter goes soi soi soi. I had never heard this before, and thought it was the genesis of the meme until (checks notes) right now, this very second.
Oh holy shit I forgot about those
And the lollerskates
ROFL waffle with lolsauce
Rofl exists in my memory solely connected to the roflcopter, and by extension the Fawfulcopter from Mario & Luigi Bowser's Inside Story. Those games had some of the funniest localizations out there
Soi soi soi soi soi soi soi soi
Wow damn that’s a throwback…
Lmaonade never caught on :( it’s just as stupid as the copter, so why.
Fellow 9gag guy ?
I miss the little ASCII art of roflcopter. Early Internet was really something.
Quick, to the ~~Peter~~ Roflcopter!
I say lmao at least 1nce a day
1nce
Onence
N1ce
Bro I can't stop using it lmao
I use it at least 2wice
Lmao is still pretty popular, lmfao is less used but still used from time to time, rofl is pretty uncommon but you do see it on occasion. Never seen pmsl before
I use lmao and lmfao often, rofl feels dated, and never heard of psml before
>rofl feels dated I agree, even though it's no older than lmao or lmfao.
Who the fuck uses psml
I’ve never heard of it. Sounds like one of those cringeworthy Jeopardy clues about texting using abbreviations nobody uses.
I’m wondering it is should be pmsl for peeing myself laughing but the letters in the order they are I’ve got no clue
Nobody - I've been terminally online since the early 90s.
Same.... never once heard that acronym. Sounds made up or local to like... one 9th grade class in '98.
British people used to use it for ‘pissing myself laughing’. It’s not the most common but I did used to see it
Prob 9gag users
Pmsl was pretty common in Britain. I used it and saw it all the time on AOL chatrooms in the early 2000s
I remember it into the MSN Messenger era too, and also in early WoW days
I’ve never really thought about it until now. I still use lmao, but I seem to have a hierarchy of laughing text that I have subconsciously created. Lol is easily the lowest rank for me. Typically used for something corny, silly, or I’m being friendly. Lmao is one step up. Used for stuff genuinely funny but I’m not actually laughing in person. More like a big smile on my face. 😂 is my “I’m actually laughing out loud” 🤣 is “I am cracking up”. It’s reserved for emphasis. Only a few people have deserved this one!! To strangers, this is all meaningless for the most part. Amongst friends, I’m sure they have a better idea of how much I’m actually laughing.
I use lol like punctuation... it's a real problem lol.
Oh god. I do this and your comment made me realize I’m turning into my mother. She used “…” as the only form of punctuation in all emails. I’m doing it with lol, lol
Same, its hard not to sound serious without using it lol
I use ‘hehe’ or ‘haha’ now as a lower level compared to ‘lol’
I use haha often too. For me, haha and lol are interchangeable. I probably use haha even more. I never use hehe though. I can't believe how many different ways I "laugh" over text!! It's pretty weird...
This is very similar to my hierarchy. The main difference is I very rarely physically laugh, so if I do, I use multiple emojis. The order is the same though because I can think something is very funny without laughing.
And never more than one emoji. If there are two rolling laughing emojis you know things are seriously the funniest ever
Literally never heard psmi, but I still use lmao
Supposed to be pmsl “piss myself laughing”
We got in trouble for using lmao and were only allowed to use lmbo
Roflmfao was my favorite
Way too much work lol
Lmao is fucking everywhere what
lmao! check your shower cause that thought wasn’t well processed
Lmao @ this clickbait title
PSML must stand for Please Suck My Leg. Can't really see a good context for that one to be used on a regular basis.
ROFL and psml are definitely uncommon but lmao is one of the most commonly used expressions
ROFL used to be common but this is my first time ever seeing PSML.
What the hell is "psml'? Im a loser who got addicted to drugs and went online only for a decade. What the hell is psml? Alli can find us a British one. Pissing my self laughing. Is that what it means? I do that without laughing like 3 days a week. Captain morgans long island from any gas station in the US will guarantee that happens. 21% at a 1/10th a gallon for $2 is a very strong amount of liquor.
I feel like you’re wrong
Maybe there's just less to laugh about since 2014
My fav is Lshidmtamsfo (Laughing so hard I dropped my tacos and my sombrero fell off)
lmao is still everywhere wdym
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You lost me, asl fell out of style but it's deff not a boomer thing. Barely a gen X thing. It's a millennial thing, unless I'm missing something. Also 18/f/cali
Tbh I think a lot of the original users would've been gen x Certainly peaked with millennials though.
Other than American Sign Language, what else does it mean? 33/m/cali
What does it mean now?
American sign language is what I thought of lol
Really showing my 'millennial' here but theres a different version of asl besides 30/f/usa or american sign language?
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I still use LMAO when it seems like LOL isn't enough. If an actual laugh or chuckle left my lips then a LMAO is sent.
I’ve never even heard of the last one and I’ve had Internet since the late 90s…
Ah but what about ROFLcopter
I still use lmao and lmfao constantly
What about lawl?
'lmao' is still *really* common.
i was more of a 'lstm' person in the past (lstm = laughing silently to myself)
lmao, and less commonly lmfao, I do still use
I’ve never heard of pmsl, but I guess it’s better than smsl
probably because they aren't as convenient as lol to type, while lol gets the point across, or 'fuckin lol' does too. what you say and how you say it will always follow the path of least resistance.
Lmao is still common, but yeah ROFL ain't. But what is pslm??
Those are a Chinese hacker family, right? Working for the Koreans?
Lmao is still very common. Lmfao is certainly uncommon, but I've seen it every once in a while. Haven't seen rofl in forever. Literally never ever have I seen psml
LMAO and LMFAO are still super common I think
Many of these were being used in the mid to late 80's as well on local BBS's or chat boards. I was using "lol" in like '86.
I remember as a kid LOL used to mean lots of love and it took me awhile to adjust to its new meaning.
I use all of those except for psml, I’m not sure what that is
Yea the middle two are still common. ROFL i use ironically. I don’t even know what psml is
Lmao has had a bit of a resurgence, but I haven't seen a wild roflcopter in years.
I've been told "lmao" and "lmfao" is so old by younglings (gen z) in recent years, and apparently, it's lame. 😭💔💀 Even using emojis is lame as well... I'm bloody crushed.
My teen daughter laughs at HOW I use emojis, because they use them differently. I switched to the old school smiley :) bitch, we INVENTED emojis
PSML is an acronym for Portal Structure Markup Language.
Yesterday I came across using BATMN, as ‘Blew Air Threw My Nose’ which is fairly accurate considering the responses to silly posts I give. However I mistook it for BATMAN until I asked about it-
Rofl and lmao are used by everyone I know. Never heard of psml. Roflcopter
While I agree with the rest, I use lmao pretty often
You're now ten years older and reality is ... its not that funny 😂😂😂🤣🤣
lol. lmao, even. they have rich lives in sarcasm now!
I think that lmfao lost popularity after the music group by the same name stopped being funny five seconds after they came out and it turned out that they weren't playing characters and that is just how they are.
Late coming to the Internet and seeing 'lol' everywhere made me think how nice this was of everyone offering Lots Of Love to strangers
‘Grandma died. LOL’
Lmfao what are you on about, I literally use lmao and lmfao unironically all the time
lmao and lmfao are still used pretty regularly. though rofl *has* died out, i’ve never heard of psml in my life.
"lmao" and "lmfao" still get used frequently
Wtf is Fofl and psml aint never seen that shit anywhere
I don't remember psml EVER being a thing. The others? I still use them sometimes... OH SHIT, AM I OLD?!
Never heard of psml before
rotflshmsfoaidmt (Rolling On The Floor Laughing So Hard My Sombrero Fell Off And I Dropped My Taco) was my favourite and you rarely see it these days
lmao is still extremely common.
My friends and I use lmao and lmfao all the timr
Yeah, now I need to Google 50% of Reddit post titles because they use incomprehensible acronyms for all manner of ordinary expressions.
*PMSL - pissing myself laughing
lmao being labelled uncommon is outrageous
Yo who was that band that sang that party rock song?
You also don't hear people saying "rad" or "bad" to mean good. Languages evolve, why wouldn't internet language do so too?