== Original Research == 

 Somehow, I get the bad feeling that this is one of those articles that is going to infringe on Wikipedia policy no matter what we do. LOL is, in essence, a meme, a term that cannot be found in any dictionary. There is no way to site the term itself, even, except for the billions of times it has been used on message boards, instant messaging systems, and so forth. If we as Wikipedia are actually going to have a substantial article on this, we're going to have to disregard fussing over trivial things like original research. Vandalism, obviously, is still unacceptable. As long as we keep our definitions general (as in, not using a specific variation that you as the writer may use personally while chatting), citing them should be irrelevant.