>>23153607
didn't the alphabet have a static cypher when playing with another faction?
wait
ah, syllables had different ciphers.

>>23154888
>first people started typing "lel," as in saying lol phonetically rather than using it as an abbreviation
lel came from ironic shitposting. specifically from anons trolling tryhards who disowned rage comics (that used "le" a lot at the time) for being "reddit". pic rel. saved 2014, likely a few years earlier.

There's a whole "memetic" chain that goes
> 2000s rage comics -> le -> ironic shitposting -> lel -> that top gun hat edit saying "top lel" -> s4s meme lingo -> top kek -> kek
And neither wow nor koreans had any influence on it.