What Is Tl;dl?
3.6BRAINROT SCORETL;DL An initialism for "too long; didn't listen", used online to say that an audio message such as a podcast or voicemail was too long to be useful. It is modelled on tl;dr, the shorthand for text.
Origin:Wiktionary defines TL;DL as the initialism for too long; didn't listen, for audio messages, with tl;dl as an alternative form. Wikipedia places the text original tl;dr at a 2002 Usenet message citing the Oxford English Dictionary; no dated source for the audio variant was found.
First Seen:Unknown (variant of tl;dr, which dates from 2002)
Peak Era:2010s onward
Aura Impact:+1 Aura (Using It Correctly In Context)
EXAMPLE USAGE
""Forty-minute voicemail? TL;DL, just text me.""
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