"lololol" != "lol". They're two different words these days. I wasn't deriding the modern lol. I think it's actually more useful than it used to be since it work

"lololol" != "lol". They're two different words these days. I wasn't deriding the modern lol. I think it's actually more useful than it used to be since it works extremely well to define tone in conversation; its meaning has just shifted as language tends to do.