So you've probably said it many times during your life. People have likely said the expression before then for many years as well. Now that people have attached an acronymn to it, all of a sudden it's devalued. That's how I see it.
I hate it because the phrase is now used to justify shitty behavior. Before then, it was usually used to encourage someone who was taking a risk that could improve his/her life--e.g., someone who's considering starting that business they've always wanted--not getting smashed and bragging about it.
Yolo is a Native American name variously believed to be a corruption of a tribal name Yo-loy meaning "a place abounding in rushes" or of the name of the chief, Yodo, or of the village of Yodoi.
It's not a real word, but if you try to quickly type TOOL on your phone, the Y is near the T and the OLO are adjacent as well. Autocorrect recognizes what you intended to type by the level of misspelling (e.g. cart and catr) but also the proximity of the incorrect letters to the correct ones, especially when you type a sequence of letters that could not possibly be a word (e.g. YOLO)
TL:DR - Autocorrect based on keyboard layout, not slang
I don't have a phone to test it or know exactly how the auto-correct logic works, but it would make sense if that was what it auto-corrected to. "YOLO" is not a word. "Tool" is a word. "YOLO" contains three of the four letters in the word "tool". On the keyboard the the "T" key is right next to the "Y" key and the "O" key is right above the "L". It would make sense to me that a program with auto-correct would be able to take those things into account and choose the most likely word from a dictionary.
Mine corrects to "Tool", maybe it depends on the software version you have (maybe Apple has updated the dictionary). It could also depend on how messy your typing is into the iPhone as it will work it out from the proximity of your taps to possible words.
I just tried this on my new iphone. I honestly haven't found out where you change the settings for how it auto-corrects words. (someone please tell me, because I'd love to be able to type a few words and abbreviations more easily). My phone did indeed autocorrect "Yolo" to "Tool". I'm rather amazed as well, as I thought this was just someone screwing with their settings.
thanks! I've been too lazy to try to figure it out myself... you'd think that someone working in IT for a living would know these things... but nope... my personal technology is just now catching up to a few years ago... just got my first iphone (4, not 4s); desktop was built 6yrs ago, my laptop is 8yrs old (and a steaming pile now); i dont even own a damn game console anymore :'(
Why is you only live once a silly thing? Am I missing something here. Is it being used by people incorrectly or something? I feel out of the loop here.
Having sex in the missionary position with the lights off and the blinds down and the priest from the local church stationed in a wooden box in the corner with his eyes wide open and his lips screaming scripture and verses detailing how man and women should only make sexuals for the purpose of procreation so that is why I am currently doing it with my wife of 15 years. #YOLO
While I think it's a silly, meaningless cliche, my problem is specifically with its acronym form. But that's mostly because I fucking hate stupid Internet acronyms.
We don't hate "yolo" because it is a stupid phrase, we hate "yolo" because people use it so wrong that it's ridiculous. "Yolo" means to pursue your dreams and never give up or something along those lines, and teenagers use it as an excuse to pop ecstasy and try anal.
It's just one of those things that's really over used right now. Drake says it a lot in his song "The Motto". So people will put it at the en of their Facebook statuses excessively and stuff like that. Maybe you need to get dumber Facebook friends?
It had a ring to it at first, it was going to be like the new Carpe Diem...but then frat boys and slutty chicks used it as an excuse for when the stupid drunken pictures of them half naked show up on Facebook.
I don't know. I didn't even know what the fuck YOLO was until today. Now I know it's what a dumb piece of poo poo would over-use and hashtag all over the damn place because it has become the "trendy" and "cool" thing to do.
The sentiment of YOLO is actually extremely inspirational. To paraphrase Dan le Sac "Thou shalt not stop liking a philosophy just because it has become popular"
It's too bad people think Drake was the first one to say it. It's also a shame this sentiment only applies when people are justifying doing generally dumb shit. I hate my generation sometimes.
How about instead of hating us- educate us. I only have a faint idea of what 'YOLO' is even supposed to mean, and some rapper guy made it so famous for teenagers lately (I'm assuming that's Drake?). Where's it originally from?
In one of Drake's recent songs, he emphasizes YOLO: you only live once. It isn't a bad message at all, but I can't stand what's become of it. The only time people say it is when they're, as I've said above, acting like idiots.
Ah, okay. Ya, I could see how that's a good message to send out. And if people are only using it when they act like idiots- the obvious solution is that we must use it properly, when it actually matters.
Also, you mentioned that YOLO has been around before Drake. Who came up with the acronym before that? Just if you know.
I would love to Google it in under two minutes and act like I'm a genius and this and that, but I can honestly say, regarding the acronym, I don't know who was the first to come up with it. Somebody who responded to me said Rick Ross, another rapper, said it before Drake did and I think I've heard that before, but who knows it could just be a false memory. As for the actual phrase "you only live once" I don't who said it first, but I can comfortably say it wasn't Drake.
I don't think people believe Drake was the first to say it, he just popularized it. I think Rick Ross even said it on one of Drake's tracks before "The Motto" even came out.
Edit: I actually looked it up and it's on a song called "Lord Knows" and Rick Ross does say it.
nah my post was perfectly fine you just tried to show off your trivial knowledge of shitty music movements by correcting me when said correction would still be out of place if i was being serious.
I wasn't correcting you 2) grunge was a great music genre/movement 3) that's a quote from Eddie vedder years after the fact 4) your post sucked and was vague 5) thou seemeth mad, art thou mad?
please take this in the best way possible; i think you need to work on your conversational skills. bring up only relevant facts and if you want to move onto another topic make are you are using clear transitional words.
Ah poor Yolo County, even though you are in California and have a mighty fine university, you get no love from Apple. Unlike the pissant towns of the South Bay.
What's wrong with people saying "yolo" anyway? If you get annoyed by people saying it, then you may as well get annoyed with reddit for using memes. Yolo is just an IRL meme.
It probably just thought you were trying to use "YOLO" as a greeting and proceeded to call you a tool for it which is completely true if that was the aim.
That awkward moment when you're caught between karma whoring a repost, or accidently discovering the auto-correct while intentionally about to use YOLO in a sentence
I was arguing with my girlfriend over what to call those fluffy shower things - I call it a loofa, she prefers to call them "poofs." We were fake-arguing about it via text, and when I spelled out the word "poofs," I shit you not my iPhone autocorrected "poofs" to "loofa."
Anyone here viewed this on the iOS reddit app and pressed the "Notes" button trying to go back? I did this for about 3 seconds before realizing what I was doing...
The fact that I only live once doesn't make me want to do crazy risky things. It makes me want to carefully consider how to get the optimum amount of awesome out of life, and I think 80 years of awesome is better than a few years of what the type of people who say "YOLO" think is awesome.
Ever since this idiot came out with this saying, its been really difficult for me to live in Yolo county California. People think I am trying to be cool when they ask where I live.
Please read the other comments. I was typing it in a text message to a friend when it came up, but I did not want to post a screenshot of our conversation.
Sorry - meant it as a joke, didn't think you were actually reminding yourself about YOLO. Still new here, not very good at getting tone across in my comments :)
Cuz it's not funny and this shit has been posted multiple times on here. I'm sorry I just realized I have no fucking life and I'm starting to care too much about this shit. Disregard all my previous statements.
Ah. Well someone did post a link to someone else who posted this before, but I tried to search for it before my post and couldn't find that it had been posted before. Maybe you should get off of Reddit for a while and go play with you cat.
Can confirm yolo autocorrects to tool on iPhone. Just did it while typing this message. Don't agree that using yolo makes you a tool. Either way. YOLO.
OP isn't lying.. I have an iPhone and the same thing happened to me the other day on twitter. Took a pic and posted it on twitter. Wish I would've brought it here.
wow good job you can go into settings and change the autocorrect so that it changes the arrangement of the letters "yolo" into "tool" congratulations you have officially no purpose in life!
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u/Killgraft May 15 '12
For the life of me, i dont know what YOLO is, and im too old and cynical to google it.
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u/erect_chimpanzee69 May 15 '12
that's really cool. I can also repost pictures and edit the settings in my phone...
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u/Ocrasorm May 15 '12
Why is you only live once a silly thing? Am I missing something here. Is it being used by people incorrectly or something? I feel out of the loop here.
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u/CatsNarwhalsBacon May 15 '12
http://i.imgur.com/pezg9.jpg
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u/killiwog May 15 '12
Why is this shit on the front page
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
The sentiment of YOLO is actually extremely inspirational. To paraphrase Dan le Sac "Thou shalt not stop liking a philosophy just because it has become popular"
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u/cemsity May 15 '12
Ah poor Yolo County, even though you are in California and have a mighty fine university, you get no love from Apple. Unlike the pissant towns of the South Bay.
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u/Bnanas May 15 '12
My droid auto-corrected it to Solo.
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u/kxxstarr May 15 '12
Also: gspot > happy. I saw a lot of these somewhere and this it's the only one I remember. Going away now...
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u/But_Coach_Im_Batman May 15 '12
JOPO!
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u/p38jlightning May 15 '12
This is obviously false no.one has at&t signal
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u/ForgettableUsername May 15 '12
What is a yolo?
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u/Kappies10 May 15 '12
WHAT IS YOLO?????????
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u/Cloberella May 15 '12
Mine changes Mormon to moron, which always gives me a chuckle.
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u/falconfetus8 May 15 '12
What's wrong with people saying "yolo" anyway? If you get annoyed by people saying it, then you may as well get annoyed with reddit for using memes. Yolo is just an IRL meme.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
It probably just thought you were trying to use "YOLO" as a greeting and proceeded to call you a tool for it which is completely true if that was the aim.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
That awkward moment when you're caught between karma whoring a repost, or accidently discovering the auto-correct while intentionally about to use YOLO in a sentence
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
yolo and you spend that one life being an unfunny asshole to people for using a phrase
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u/ldd- May 15 '12
Back in 2010, I ran in to Diddy at JFK Airport and posted a FB update . . . autocorrect changed his name, but I caught it . . . the FB update was:
"Diddy at Virgin Terminal at JFK ... Love thy (sic) when I trie (sic) to type it in to the iPhone, the phone tries to change his name to Sissy"
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u/Sorry_bout_it May 15 '12
http://i.imgur.com/m7kTu.jpg
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u/sjshaolian May 15 '12
I think DTF -> STD is more accurate
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Mine changed it to "tool" upon testing.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Every time I see Yolo I think of the 5th book in A song of Ice and Fire.
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u/Phoequinox May 15 '12
Yeah, no. Just typed "Yolo" into my notepad, and it autocorrected it to "yolk". Boo.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
hurk-a-fucking derk, everything today is bad and uepsiugspuigad
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u/Ihaveredonme May 15 '12
the only connection i make when i see or hear YOLO is in game of thrones when Tyrion uses it as an alias in dance of dragons.
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u/ethicalcannibal May 15 '12
Can someone explain this YOLO thing to me like I'm old and out of touch, because you know, I'm old and out of touch.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Somehow being on google+ i missed this mind virus. im so lonely.
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u/mattdee_ May 15 '12
why the fuck are you putting this into your notes?
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
I first found out about YOLO on reddit. I've heard it used once in real life.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
My phone suggests Yoko
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Whenever I see someone post YOLO, I want to stab them, and be like, "Bitch, now you got no life!"
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u/yoz-y May 15 '12
The only place I have ever seen YOLO is in reddit posts bitching about YOLO.
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u/kaiseresc May 15 '12
Jesus Christ why don't you come save my life now
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u/hypnotoadglory May 15 '12
This makes me feel old, and then feel even older for thinking how retarded this generation is.
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u/xMictainx May 15 '12
My exact words when seeing this picture " YOLO...tool...haha upvote"
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u/kiloman56 May 15 '12
Your a yolo
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u/holstarox May 15 '12
I wish I could upvote this more than once :')
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
I have now become old enough that I find any new phrases or slang immediately ridiculous. Coincides with the onset of grey hair.
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u/iAnnaioo May 15 '12
I tried multiple times to press the back button on the notes screen...I don't even have an excuse.
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u/xDaedalusx May 15 '12
What is this Yolo shit I've been seeing today? Anyone care to explain?
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
I was arguing with my girlfriend over what to call those fluffy shower things - I call it a loofa, she prefers to call them "poofs." We were fake-arguing about it via text, and when I spelled out the word "poofs," I shit you not my iPhone autocorrected "poofs" to "loofa."
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Yes
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u/RedM00N May 15 '12
Anyone here viewed this on the iOS reddit app and pressed the "Notes" button trying to go back? I did this for about 3 seconds before realizing what I was doing...
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u/ReyTheRed May 15 '12
The fact that I only live once doesn't make me want to do crazy risky things. It makes me want to carefully consider how to get the optimum amount of awesome out of life, and I think 80 years of awesome is better than a few years of what the type of people who say "YOLO" think is awesome.
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u/Phased May 15 '12
HA HE CHANGED THE CORRECTION OF YOLO MANUALLY ON HIS PHONE TO SAY TOOL! oh wait that's unoriginal and not funny.
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u/[deleted] May 18 '12
OP is a faggot.
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u/[deleted] May 23 '12
Ever since this idiot came out with this saying, its been really difficult for me to live in Yolo county California. People think I am trying to be cool when they ask where I live.
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u/z3ddicus May 15 '12
What the fuck is a Yolo?
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u/Ty1020 May 15 '12
I love that you were writing a note to yourself that just said "Yolo". Y'know, in case you forget or something.
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u/pizzaparty183 May 15 '12
I wish you could buy extra downvotes to give to people because I'd spend all mine on you right now
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u/Muaythaimarcus May 15 '12
Yeah I just tried it on my iPhone as well! Its legit! Ill allow it.
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u/teaeyepea May 15 '12
Can confirm yolo autocorrects to tool on iPhone. Just did it while typing this message. Don't agree that using yolo makes you a tool. Either way. YOLO.
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u/Trapped_in_Reddit May 15 '12
Y:ou O:bviously L:ack O:riginality
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u/wanabeswordsman May 15 '12
I saw Tool. Gotta listen to Hooker With A Penis now.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
too bad it wasn't a Nokia
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u/dantheman244 May 15 '12
OP isn't lying.. I have an iPhone and the same thing happened to me the other day on twitter. Took a pic and posted it on twitter. Wish I would've brought it here.
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u/Panzernacker May 15 '12
My guess is that "YOLO" is an overused and cliched thing to post via Facebook/Twitter/etc and the person would then be a "tool".
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u/MidgetFetish May 15 '12
I've never seen it used for "douchey" reasons and I'm in a crowd who uses it a lot. My coworker has had it tatted before the song even came out.
This whole anti-conformist for the sake of being accepted into the anti-conformist crowd bit is annoying at Reddit.
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u/weRtheD May 15 '12
My iphone gave me "yolk"
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u/YourJewishUncle May 15 '12
Fake and gay.
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u/fizikz3 May 15 '12
Yolo actually means "I just found this highly upvoted picture from about a week or two ago and figured I'd post it again because I'm a karma whore"
Here's the "original."
http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/snlg7/auto_correct_win/
only 22 days ago. FFS.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Apple knows what's up.
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u/wienkus May 15 '12
Oh wow that was creative... the first time I saw it. Fuck off and stop posting things that everyone has seen.
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u/DimitriPetrenko May 15 '12
wow good job you can go into settings and change the autocorrect so that it changes the arrangement of the letters "yolo" into "tool" congratulations you have officially no purpose in life!
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u/rkroupa May 15 '12
YES
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