Don't feel like you have to make any kind of a neutral or positive comment right away. Play it cool, let things die down a little bit and then sometime you have a genuine emotion other than sneering contempt, see if you can get a word in edgewise with it. Or you might try to hover on that next 'LOL' for a minute, work on that, and take it from there until it's got a little bit more to it than the usual Bronx cheer. It's a suggestion.
Other than your "feeling better",
nothing of substance/matter can be resolved by your attributions.
Don't feel like you have to make any kind of a neutral or positive comment right away. Play it cool, let things die down a little bit and then sometime you have a genuine emotion other than sneering contempt, see if you can get a word in edgewise with it. Or you might try to hover on that next 'LOL' for a minute, work on that, and take it from there until it's got a little bit more to it than the usual Bronx cheer. It's a suggestion.