Laughs, in the plural, at someone's expense — 'for the lulz' — as the 2000s' explanation for anything done to be funny, including things that were not. The record's entry for the laughter that was also a motive.
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The record notes 'lulz' is the corrupted plural of LOL, that it named a moral philosophy for a while, and that the philosophy did not hold up in court.
For whoever reads this in ten years: Lulz arrived in 2003 and for about a month it was the only correct response to anything. Then it became a response to itself.
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