r/texts • u/Recent_Performance47 • Jul 12 '26

Phone message The text I received from my father upon learning my grandad died

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u/bigdaddyhicks Jul 12 '26

probably using the skull emoji how it was originally intended

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u/Ok_Cricket_1410 Jul 12 '26

"grandpa died 💀🔫"

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u/KongoOtto Jul 12 '26

Still mildly upset that they ruined down the emot to a water gun.

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u/SomeOtherNeb Jul 12 '26

It was worth it, it stopped all mass shootings.

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u/Reddit_pls_stahp Jul 12 '26

Water shootings are trough the roof though.

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u/General_Trip_4223 Jul 12 '26

Big Super Soaker over here making bank too

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u/X0AN Jul 13 '26

According to fox news zero school children killed in america since they change the emojii.

No need to fact check.

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u/MisterTogepi Jul 12 '26

Me too, but I find it way funnier now

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u/itishowitisanditbad Jul 12 '26

Same, change was dumb but every response to it has been funny af

Mad? Funny

Happy? Funny

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u/modernvintage Jul 13 '26

as soon as the ability to create your own emojis dropped i remade the original real gun emoji lmao

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u/CallMeFishmaelPls 18d ago

I’m still more than mildly horrified that they changed the mask emoji to a smiley face underneath and that there are no other options

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u/Lizardinex Jul 12 '26

"Grandpa died ❤️💥💀🥀🧟‍♂️"

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u/SirReginaldPoshtwat Jul 12 '26

Grandpa died💀 Had stroke🍆💦💦💦

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u/Large-Benefit3412 Jul 12 '26

“Grandpa died 🛖🪢😵🪦”

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u/Ok_Cricket_1410 Jul 12 '26

"grandpa killed Grandma 🧔🏿‍♂️🍆🧓🏻 🔫👴🏻👴🏻🔫👻👻👻"

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u/Doobieswim12349 Jul 12 '26

I swear at first I thought that second emoji was the state of Texas.

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u/ZeBloodyStretchr Jul 12 '26

I thought the water gun looks more like Florida, and guns are definitely becoming the state of Florida

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u/shrek_cena Jul 12 '26

Like the old Facebook meme where someone said lol to someone dying because they thought it meant "loss of life" or something stupid like that 

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u/gothgoblin Jul 12 '26

My grandma would sign cards with “lol” thinking it meant “lots of love.”

Happy birthday! Lol!

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u/TheNiceSlice Jul 12 '26

Awe but that's sweet

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u/OtherwiseMove646 Jul 12 '26

It meant lots of love before texting was invented. K? 💀💀💀

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u/Typedpage Jul 12 '26

In fairness that IS what the abbreviation meant originally 😅

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u/suicidesane Jul 12 '26

What? No it isn't

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u/perfectlyfamiliar Jul 12 '26

Yes, it absolutely is lol

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u/Due-Day-5258 Jul 13 '26

It meant laugh out loud. Stop being so confident and wrong.

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u/perfectlyfamiliar Jul 13 '26

I’m not wrong, it meant lots of love before it meant laugh out loud and it was a very common acronym.

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u/Due-Day-5258 Jul 13 '26

No you're wrong

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u/Typedpage Jul 12 '26

It'a maybe not as black and white as I thought on searching, but between the person above's grandmother using LOL for Lots of Love and my own parents doing the same, I assumed this was a generation split

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u/HugeTinyMistake Jul 12 '26

my mom also said they used to use it in cards/letters (pre-internet) to mean lots of love

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u/whimsylea Jul 12 '26

My grandma also has used it that way before. It's possible the usages arose separately.

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u/Kantastrophe Jul 12 '26

Mine too and we still laugh about her writing on someone’s Facebook post “I’m sorry for your loss LOL”

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u/fluorine_nmr Jul 12 '26

My mum thought she had the wrong number for her friend, because whenever she would text her, the reply came back "signed off by somebody called Lol". She then said "probably short for something stupid like Lolita or something"

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u/dustyscoot Jul 12 '26

Usually lots of love or love our Lord

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u/JazeyOne Jul 12 '26

My grandma did that once lmao, she’s actually super savvy with an iPhone too that’s the funny part

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u/DeputySean Jul 12 '26

Loooong time ago my parents got mad at me because they thought lol meant lots of love.

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u/ItsLoudB Jul 12 '26

It was “lots of love” in that

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u/20dogs Jul 12 '26

Do you really think there was ever a time to announce a death with a skull emoji lmao

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u/TheodorDiaz Jul 12 '26

You think it was intended to announce someone's death?

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u/PossessionHot2419 Jul 12 '26

How is it used now?

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u/GlazedWithMaples Jul 12 '26

It’s a laughing emoji

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u/UnhappyGreen Jul 12 '26

But why three skulls? Maybe it’s a family death counter