Welcome to FTW Explains, a guide to catching up on and better understanding stuff going on in the world. Have you seen someone use "IJBOL" in a group chat or something and you're wondering what the ...

A Korean word? A new boy band? This new acronym is replacing LOL and ROFL on social media. By Shirley Wang First there was LOL (“laugh out loud”), an acronym that first appeared in the 1980s and ...

He says the evolution of the phrase "LOL" shows how texting is a new form of communication Once a sign of humor, now "LOL" is a way of indicating empathy, he says The going idea is that texting has, ...

LOL is being replaced with IJBOL in internet slang (Representational image) Move over, LOL. There’s a new acronym in town to denote laughter and it is quickly becoming a favourite with Gen-Z. IJBOL, ...

In an acknowledgement of the internet's overwhelming influence on the triviality we sometimes refer to as "real life," the Oxford English Dictionary doyens have decided to add a few of the web's ...

Time-saving online abbreviations like LOL, OMG, and IMHO are now part of the official English language. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) announced the addition of several acronyms to its dictionary ...