The sentences “I laughed so much I died” and “I laughed so much I literally died” mean exactly the same thing, but only one of them will have people respond with tHeN hOw ArE yOu TaLkInG tO mE iF yOu’Re DeAd?
both are exaggerations to make it sound more impressive than it really was. but “literally” is for the people who aren’t happy with the normal exaggeration so they’re doubling down.
We’ve just run out of superlatives. Unfortunately we seem to have a society always looking for the extremes and craziest behaviors to the point we have a churn of “new words” like brainrot with everyone desperate to coin the next “fetch” and trying to make it happen. So stacking hyperbole on superlative on brainrot is what we get.
The use of ‘literally’ as hyperbole is fine.
The sentences “I laughed so much I died” and “I laughed so much I literally died” mean exactly the same thing, but only one of them will have people respond with tHeN hOw ArE yOu TaLkInG tO mE iF yOu’Re DeAd?
both are exaggerations to make it sound more impressive than it really was. but “literally” is for the people who aren’t happy with the normal exaggeration so they’re doubling down.
I just can’t bring myself to ever agree with that! Get off my lawn!
We’ve just run out of superlatives. Unfortunately we seem to have a society always looking for the extremes and craziest behaviors to the point we have a churn of “new words” like brainrot with everyone desperate to coin the next “fetch” and trying to make it happen. So stacking hyperbole on superlative on brainrot is what we get.
Yeah nah.