Lulz

Scientists have carbon dated the first use of lulz to Jameth.

Ohio has the highest concentration of lulz in America.

There are, however, no lulz to be found in Hollywood. We all know why that is.

I did it for the lulz

On ur shipments, corruptin ur lulz.

The infamous lulz turtle.

The infamous lulz turtle in first stage battlemode.

The infamous lulz turtle rapes a Mudkip.

The infamous lulz turtle in his final and most lulzy form.

King of the Hill's Bobby enjoys the lulz.

The anti-lulz turtle. LOLWUT!?

Ye olde time lulz turtle.

Lulz rare turtle pr0n.

The Teenage Mutant Lolz Turtles (TMLT)

Yet again Rule 34.

	“	In the beginning was the Lulz, and the Lulz was with God, and the Lulz was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all trollings were made; without him nothing was trolled that has been trolled. In him was drama, and that drama was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.	„
	—Gospel of John

█▄ █▄█ █▄ ▀█▄ is a corruption of L O L, which stands for "Laugh Out Loud". Anonymous gets big lulz from pulling random pranks. For example, messing with online children's games like Habbo Hotel. The pranks are often antisemitic or racist, and always posted on the internet. But truly epic lulz come from raids and invasions. Laughter at someone else's expense is from the German concept of "Schadenfreude". This makes it inherently superior to lesser forms of humor. 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.

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.

Good lulz

Bad lulz

Anti-lulz

Lolz Turtle Dances To This

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.

Further developments

The beginning

	“	Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, "Let there be lulz," and there was lulz. God saw that the lulz was good, and He separated the lulz from the unfunny. God called the lulz "Encyclopedia Dramatica," and the Unfunny he called "Uncyclopedia." And there was pr0n, and there was pedophiles 窶・the first internets.	„
	—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:

“	It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves abovt, to watch from the shore the strvggles of another. LVLZ	„
—Romans loev Schadenfreude

Modern Times

1. Ask not what your lulz can do for you, but what you can do for your lulz. - John F. Kennedy.
2. We have nothing to fear, but Lulz itself - Franklin D. Roosevelt
3. i did it for the lulz - Jack ruby

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 sealclap

Extreme totalulz can induce a sealclap, an involuntary clapping motion.

In the

Good lulz

as linked here, the basement dweller subject complements his fit of totalulz with two distinct sealclaps.

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 prototype Lulz-O-Meter

Frunz

Frunz is the complete opposite of lulz. See also anti-lulz.

Limits of lulz

No matter how lulzy you think something is, it has a chance of being anti-lulz or just plain wrong:

	“	Some times not even the lulz are worth looking at fuckloads of weird furry pornography.	„
	—Einsidler

	“	yes they are	„
	—you

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."

Lulz in different languages

• English - Lulz
• British - Lawlz
• American - HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH
• Canadian - Lol eh?
• Australian - ridgey didge!
• German - Schadenfreude
• French - lﾃｩlz
• Finnish - reps
• Sweedish - lﾃｶlz
• Arab - ﾘｳﾘｧﾘｯﾙ韓ｩ
• Jew - ﾗ慵勉慵・/i>
• Greek - ﾏπｱﾎｴﾎｹﾏπｼﾏ狐・/i>
• Hindi - 爨ｪ爨ｰ爨ｪ爭€爨｡爨ｼ爨ｨ-爨ｰ爨､爨ｿ
• Hungarian - káröröm (Schadenfreude)
• Japanese - 繧ｵ繝・ぅ繧ｺ繝
• Chinese - 睇人仆街
• Russian - ﾐ嶢ｾﾐｻ / Trololo
• 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!
• Romanian - caterincﾄ・or mﾃ｢ﾅ｣ﾄ・/i>
• Turkish - haha kop!
• Vietnamese - Tﾃ｡nh b蘯｡o dﾃ｢m
• 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・/i>
• Thai - 犧金ｸｲ犧扉ｸｴ犧ｪ犧｡犹・/i> 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
• Nigger - ouu ouu ouu AHHH AHHHHH
• Dog - woof woof

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.

Guaranteed lulz

• A fatty raging at ED - laughing at, but not with, fat kids is always lulzy
• LULZ.FM
• Pterodactyl Sex
• Caseypedia - a deep well of delicious, thirst-quenching schadenfreude. Feels good man.

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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  Anonymous does Fox News for teh lulz.
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  A typical lolcow.
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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, in before being corrupted.
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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.
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See also

• Funny bone
• 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

• 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

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Featured article February 2, 2009
Preceded by ED:101	Lulz	Succeeded by Islam Is The Light