Day 4100: LOL and Step by Step.

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Move over LOL, Gen Z embraces "IJBOL"

There's a new way to describe something funny on social media: "IJBOL," or "I just burst out laughing."

Why it matters: People online constantly look for ways to express exactly how they are responding to content, MaryLeigh Bliss, the chief content officer for youth research organization YPulse, told Axios.

• "Since the beginning of communicating through chat, which is what Millennials grew up doing, we've been looking for ways to communicate this incredibly physical reaction to what we're experiencing, seeing, reading," she said.

State of play: K-pop fans are some of IJBOL's most prominent users, according to a search for the term on X.

• Vice President Kamala Harris has become the face of memes surrounding the new acronym.
• IJBOL accurately captures the feeling of going from quietly scrolling to letting out a burst of laughter, members of Gen Z told the New York Times.

Context: Young people are spending more time than anyone else on their phones, Bliss said. As a result, they have to convey the wide range of human experiences in text-based communication. "It's all rooted in the amount of time that they are living online," she said.

Reality check: When internet trends become too mainstream, Gen Z stops finding them cool, Bliss said. This means IJBOL, with increased prominence, may be used more ironically from here on out. It could see a similar fate to the crying laughing emoji, 😂, now widely considered cringe.

 (To express a laugh through emoji, you should now use the skull, 💀, or tears, 😭.) 

Flashback ... LOL: laugh out loud

A 7 or 8 step, step-by-step ...

 

I started with foil cardboard ...

step 1

( I know it doesn't look metallic, but trust me? it is) rescued from an opened Costco package, 

the kind you have to cut to get into?

step 2

Graphic text from a Verizon junk mail ad.

step 3

And a second torn strip of the same add. I prefer the torn edge.

step 4

And, a torn piece from the reverse side of the same ad junk mail.

step 5

Mark-making tissue, the process shown here in an earlier blog.

step 6

Torn piece from a different ad junk mail to add contrast.

step 7

Final piece is a circular-ish red shape from 

a different piece of junk mail.

Step 8 below, is digitized, a subtle change.

step 8

I love using junk mail & throw-away stuff

A little less for the landfill?

 

 

 

A -1minute video, Kookabura, here.

 

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