An online tone indicator/tone tag created mainly to help neurodivergent people, but also to avoid confusion in general. Stands for "lyrics", and can be used after you quote lyrics in a song so that people who don't realize you're quoting a song don't
get confused and think you're
talking normally and
get concerned or confused. It's more useful than you'
d think, especially with tweets, online statuses, bios, Instagram captions, etc.
Also known as /l or /lyrics.
Without the tone indicator:
"Two trucks having
sex."
"Dude, what the
fuck?"
"Oh, sorry- Two trucks having
sex. /ly"
"Still weird, but at least I know it's from a song and isn't just you saying weird shit."