"Every once in a while, someone will reference a Homestar line or 'all your base are belong to us,' and I get activated like a sleeper agent."

"My millennial 'emotional support lol.'"

"The single 'k' is really aggressive. It's how we knew someone wasn't an interested romantic partner back in the day. It was that, or it was just that one friend that never texted much because they were too cool for school."

"Editing takes too long. It’s muscle memory to switch the keyboard over to get to the asterisk by now anyway, which might be another sign of being a Milennial. Obligatory lol. 

*Millennial. I swear I didn’t spell it wrong for exemplifying purposes omg."

"That emoji is clearly for someone inconsolably crying!"

"Yep, for my friends and me, it was always either inconsolably crying or crying because something was so cute, usually an animal."

"I said 'BRB' aloud to my partner while his 13-year-old was visiting. He (the kid) was like, 'Whoaaaaa, you say that too???' I was like, dude, my generation invented that shit."

"I saw someone say 'woot' in chat the other day, and it was like war flashbacks. I kid, but it was like seeing an old friend."

"Hah: You want me to laugh, but it's not really funny.

Haha: Obligatory standard laugh or defusing mechanism.

Hahahaha: I actually laughed in real life. That's legit funny.

Hahahahahahahaha: Oh, you're a real piece of shit.

"I’m told that the way I text is 'hostile' because I always use punctuation. I’m sorry I didn’t sleep through English?"

"I don't know what you're talking about..."

"I was so confused when kids started using asl to mean 'as hell.'"

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