Lulz
See: Lulz Map, IDIFTL, Just like cosmological constant, Einstein predicted The Comprehensive Theory of Lulz |
—Gospel of John |
█▄ █▄█ █▄ ▀█▄ is a corruption of L O L, which stands for "Laugh Out Loud", signifying laughter at someone else's expense (from the German concept of "Schadenfreude"). This makes it inherently superior to lesser forms of humor. Anonymous gets big lulz from pulling random pranks. The pranks are always posted on the internet. Just as the element of surprise transforms the physical act of love into something beautiful, the anguish of a laughed-at victim transforms lol into lulz, making it longer, girthier, and more pleasurable. Lulz is engaged in by Internet users who have witnessed one major economic/environmental/political disaster too many, and who thus view a state of voluntary, gleeful sociopathy over the world's current apocalyptic state, as superior to being continually emo.
Example:
You're driving on a two lane highway, listening to music and whatshit, and suddenly, you see two people go in front of you and box you in, going at a shocking 20 miles an hour on a 60 mile an hour lane, forcing everyone to get in your way. The asshole in front of you decides to pull a prank and slams on his brakes. You cannot react in time and rear-end his car. He speeds off in his stupid lunchbox and the other guy takes an exit. Luckily, you get the guy's license plate (U42-6MN, Tampa, FL). You look up his information through the DMV, find his address, and launch your assault. Every waking moment of his life will become a swirling torment of pain and misery. He will begin to look before opening the shower curtain, because half the time, you will be there with a knife in hand. He will not cross the road because you will be there waiting to run him over. He will not cook with salt because he thinks you laced it with cyanide. His life, terrorized. For the lulz. Win.
The term lulz was coined by Jameth, and is the only good reason to do anything, from trolling to rape. After every action taken, you must make the epilogic dubious disclaimer: "I did it for the lulz." Sometimes you may see the word spelled as luls or lolz, but only if you are reading something written by a faggot. Pro Tip: If you feel particularly pretentious, or if you're talking to Frasier, use the term "epicaricacy" instead of lulz.
lulz Noun --- (lul-zz) Definition: 1. The act of entertaining oneself with the misfortune of others; an agreeable occupation for the mind 2. Something affording pleasure, diversion, or amusement, esp. a performance of some kind. 3. The essence which can be derived from an epic win. Usage: We did it for the lulz. Synonyms: Entertainment Source: A corruption of lol.
Etymology
Below is a conversation said to have been held between Jesus and Putin. Whether it is apochryphal is disputed by black person
Putin says: lulz man what's the etymology of lulz i know it's derived from lol but how did it acquire the "u" and the "z" WHAT BROUGHT ABOUT THIS CONCEPTUAL REVOLUTION IN LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT Jesus says: haahahah well first off a semantic shift had been undertaken to coalesce 'lol' from an abbreviation into a noun. after the noun became established, multiple grammaticalisations could be carried out, such as verbing, declining and such and such however, the 'act' of 'lolling' became too equated with stupid fucking faggots, so it came to be abandoned and, by simple survival of the fittest, it is the pluralisation 'lols' that came to prominence Putin says: hahaha Jesus says: once 'lols' became established, it underwent multiple vulgarisations such as 'lawls', 'lalz', 'lolz' etc etc until the canonical form 'lulz' became codified by the great king Unbar of the Undernets* Putin says: HAHAHA oh man Jesus says: this was done in part to subdue the last of stupid fucking faggots by building a wall of self-referential sarcasm similar to the rift between the old and the new testament whereby the christians are like 'lulz fuck jews, they're christians who haven't evolved yet' but at the same time they're like 'lulz we bow before jewish prophets and we use jewish words like 'hallelujah'' so it is then to cover the embarassment of having grammaticalised an internet abbreviation as stupid fucking faggots did Putin says: hahaha Jesus says: and so it to sever all possible ties with them, that the vulgarised form 'lulz', albeit unorthodox, has been assumed.
*This allegedly refers to either Ceiling Cat or the proverbial テ盈inence Grise of the Internet, but there is disagreement between black person, see Neumann 1977 and Smith 2002 for further discussion.
Lulz in different languages
- English - Lulz
- British - Lawlz
- American - HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH
- Canadian - Lol eh?
- Australian - ridgey didge!
- German - Schadenfreude
- French - lテゥlz, mdr
- Jamaican - HUEHUEHUEHUEHUE
- Finnish - reps
- Estonian - kahjurõõm
- Sweedish - lテカlz
- Dutch - Piemel
- Arab - ههههههههههههتهههههخههههههععهههههههتتههههههكهههه
- Jew - ラ慵勉慵
- Greek - マπアホエホケマπシマ狐
- Hindi - 爨ェ爨ー爨ェ爭爨。爨シ爨ィ-爨ー爨、爨ソ
- Hungarian - káröröm (Schadenfreude)
- Japanese - wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
- Korean - ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
- Chinese -
- Russian - ミ嶢セミサ / Trololo,Axaxaxa
- Italian - Sadismo
- Norweigian - Sadisme
- Spanish - Casi me cago
- Czech - Sofistikovanテ。 zlテ。 sranda
- Croatian - Sadizam
- Slovak - Vテ。トセaナ・ sa
- Slovenian - Sadizem
- Polish - O kurwa! / Beka w chuj
- Romanian - caterincト・or mテ「ナ」ト
- Turkish - haha kop!
- Vietnamese - Tao làm vì cái lulz
- Serbian - ミ。ミーミエミクミキミーミシ
- Portuguese - Risosz
- Estonian - Lテオlz
- Yiddish - ラ慵蹟クラ
- Thai - 犧金クイ犧扉クエ犧ェ犧。犹 and 555555555
- Belarusian - ミ・ミーz-ム・ーz-ム・ーz
- Pig latin - ulz-lay
- Dutch -
Lol (This predates /b/, and even the internets.)Forgot about "Leedvermaak" eh? - Danish - LOL!
- Macedonian - Seir
- Indonesian - wkwkwkwkwkwkwkwkwkwkwk
- Malaysian - WAKENABEB
- Chanisian - trolulzulzulzulzulz
The Lulls
Phonetically, the English pronunciation of lulz is also homonymous to the word "lulls", which has Quantum Deep Significance and stands for the fact that no matter how hilarious any gags happen to be, they will eventually become unfunny if repeated too often, at the wrong times, and/or by the wrong people. When this occurs, the lulz can effectively become the "lulls" in the humor continuum...which open up into gaping, sucking holes leading to the Anti-Lulz. You never know when the lulz will suddenly let you down - and the only way to not be at risk for that occurring is to ensure that the lulz never truly matter to you. What would happen if the tables turned and the lulz stopped being funny because the laughing-with turned to the laughing-at, and you became the target? The moment this begins to matter to you, all hope for you becomes lost. Therefore, it has to not matter, ever...at ALL.
This shit was actually just made up by some asshat lawn gnome trying to pass itself off as a troll, and thus must be completely disregarded by your awareness, RIGHT NOW.
Fun fact
The word "lul" means cock in the Dutch language, so whenever someone says "I did it for the lulz" they are quite literally saying "I did it for the cock."
Overview
Beginning as a plural variant of lol, Lulz was originally an exclamation but is now often just used as a noun meaning interesting or funny internet content.
According to the media, Lulz is a corruption of LOL, which stands for laugh out loud. It is part of sekrit code used by evil domestic terrorists in their attempt to ruin innocent peoples' lives. These terrorists, known as "Anonymous" get lots of "lulz" from staging "invasions" of children's websites such as Habbo Hotel.
According to Mattathias Schwartz of the New York Times, Lulz is "how trolls keeps score" and is defined as "the joy of disrupting another窶冱 emotional equilibrium". Given that lulz has been extensively covered by both FAWCKS NUUZ and the NYT, it would seem to be notable; however, it is only accorded one small section of the Wikipedia article on Lol.
Senior Dramacrats believe lulz originally came from trolls on LiveJournal, where it was then spread by our very own website. The chans would pick it up later, proving the unifying ability of lulz, as detailed below.
Lulz is the one unifying force in the world. Those experiencing it are bonded mentally and emotionally. It is the greatest experience you will ever have. Your first 'lulz' is akin to achieving your first orgasm, only magnified. If one is truly experiencing the lulz, they will be invulnerable to all attack. Lulz is known to show other life lessons by any means necessary, such as to not download CP, especially under the alias you use for everything else and to not be an attention whore.
Using lulz in your spoken vocabulary also makes you a faggot, and increases the likelihood that you will never get laid.
Examples:
- You cannot understand the complex motivations of anonymous. Faggot.
- We will come together to strengthen our intelligence capabilities to know the plans of terrorists before they act and to find the lulz before they strike.
- Typical result of lulz overdose.
Examples
IRL lulz
- fo0bar saw a California car with a LULZ license plate driving in Reno. Surrender your secrets to me!
- Amnesiac found out that London Underground calls itself "LUL" internally. The precise amount of lulz generated by this discovery is unknown, but presumed to be quite low.
Guaranteed lulz
- A fatty raging at ED - laughing at, but not with, fat kids is always lulzy. >This shit is not lulz worthy
- LULZ.FM
- Pterodactyl Sex
- Caseypedia - a deep well of delicious, thirst-quenching schadenfreude. Feels good man.
Historical Development
The beginning
—Genesis - The Bible |
Ancient version
In ancient times they referred to lulz as lvlz as in:
<augustus> Byzantivm was pvvnd this morning. <nerva> lvlz
An early scholar of lulz was the Roman poet Lucretius, who described the phenomenon at least one hundred years ago:
—Romans loev Schadenfreude |
Modern Times
- Ask not what your lulz can do for you, but what you can do for your lulz. - John F. Kennedy.
- We have nothing to fear, but Lulz itself - Franklin D. Roosevelt
- I did it for the lulz - Jack Ruby
- The lulz squared is equal to the butthurt of the recipient squared multiplied by the value of the prank squared. - Pythagoras.
Totalulz
n. to be completely engulfed in hilarity; can also mean a completely uniform lol. Example:
<mike> n00bs are stupid <dan> lol <bob> lol <alf> lol <mike> totalulz
The lulz scale
The Lulz Scale, currently in development by Encyclopedia Dramatica staff, will be used to rate everything OTI on a simple scale of Lulz. The Lulz Scale will vary between 0 and Over 9,000. A prototype has been released by a fan of Teh Lulz.
The Lulz Equation
Founded by an AnonymousTip, the Lulz Equation can be used to build up Lulz in a numerical fashion which in turn may be used to boast about how big of an asshole you are.
The Equation is as follows:
Lulz = (C+R)-r*(M/Q) C = Comedy R = Victim's rage r = Your rage M = Your material Q = Quality of the material
All variables are based on a scale 1-10.
Limits of lulz
No matter how lulzy you think something is, it has a chance of being anti-lulz or just plain wrong:
—you |
Frunz
Frunz is the complete opposite of lulz. See also anti-lulz.
Videos
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Gallery
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he sees wut u did thar
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Porn can be lulzy.
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Even the Spaniards have adopted lulz into their tongue.
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The anti-username bot never fails to impress.
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Attention whores like MeganSpeaks doesn't believe in lulz, but she will soon enough...
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excuse me?
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Even Dave Mustaine did it for the lulz
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Japanese researchers state that there is no such thing as lulz in the rain. Cute propaganda is used to spread this observation.
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lolz on urbandictionary.
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Lulz = is why we do anything at all
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Maximillian detects lulz.
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Lulz are so despicable that even white supremacists can't stand them.
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Russian lulz.
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Gay lulz
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Aliens have come to keep the earth from destruction from the nuclear missiles and the lulz
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The seas will turn read and the lulz will walk among the living
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feel the power of the lulz side
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How do I shot Phil Shuman??1
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Lulz Did WTC!!!
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Thank you FOX, I would never have figured it out.
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A more recent sighting.
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A comprehensive guide for making lulz.
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The Evil UmbreLOL corporation.
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ED and its lulz.
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Lulz come flavored in spices, packaged, and preserved for all eternity(not really).
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"LULZ TEH GAME" (Still in production)
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"OJ's New BOOK"
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How not to generate lulz
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Misusage of lulz
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You're average, everyday lulz.
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WE NEED MOAR LULZ
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I see what you did for the lulz there.
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AVG loves the lulz
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We do it for them.
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SIEG LULZ
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A fine example of doing it for the lulz (note the pwnage factor is over 9,000).
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OM NOM NOM
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The lulz
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Steve does it for the lulz.
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When there's uber-lulz to be had, your face ends up like this.
See also
- I did it for the lulz
- Lulz Map - Check here for a location of notable lulzy events!
- Evulz
- Heppum's Razor
- Lol
- K-LULZ
- Lulz News Network
- L.U.L.Z.
- The Comprehensive Theory of Lulz
- Lolokaust
- Lulzcon
- Lulzcast
- Lollercaust
- Lulzworthy
- lolcow
External links
- UkrDramatica's article on LULZ
- KYM on LULZ
- Lulzy.net
- Seriouslulz.com
- Lulz.com
- Lulz.FM
- Lulz
- Fox 11 report on lulz
- Critical analysis of lulz
- Moar Lulz Turtle Porn
- Even the academics know about teh lulz
Lulz is part of a series on Visit the Trolls Portal for complete coverage. |
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Lulz | Succeeded by HappyCabbie |
Featured article February 2, 2009 | ||
Preceded by ED:101 |
Lulz | Succeeded by Islam Is The Light |
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