Wandering Adventure Party

@atomicpoet You have a valid point. If it's a direct message rather than a public post that's pretty definitely poor form. I did not get the impression from your initial post that this was what you meant.

IMHO, LMGTFY is unnecessarily passive aggressive though. A better response would probably be "you should probably try googling that."

As a bonus, it's an even lower effort response while still getting the same point across.

@atomicpoet

When someone sends an lmgtfy, it’s not meant to be rude—it’s a gentle reminder that the answer was always within reach.

not meant to be ≠ is

It's condescending regardless of intent. It's also worth noting (as others have) that modern Google results are less useful than they were in the pre-LLM era.