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[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 129 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] thebigslime@lemmy.world 55 points 1 month ago

Temba, his arms wide

[–] ggppjj@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago

Sokath, his eyes open.

[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Ahh, beat me to it

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 106 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

Its the Shaka, Hawaii’s official state hand gesture.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaka_sign

[–] curiousaur@reddthat.com 23 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Of course the fucking Mormons are trying to own it.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 5 points 4 weeks ago

Who copied it from the freemasons

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 33 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

This is way more accurate than that urban dictionary.

In Hawaii (depending on where you are) shaka is used all the time. Kinda like waving to someone with a hint of good vibe to it. Also to emphasize "hey that's cool". You see it a lot waving thanks to cars, too

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Is there also a hand signal for when something isn't good?

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 58 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, I guess I meant a Hawaiian one. But I suppose that one is universal.

[–] qrstuv@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 4 weeks ago

It's known as the hawaiian good luck sign.

[–] TheCannonball@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

To add to this, it's widely used in Brazil who copied it from surf culture.

China also uses it as part of their one hand counting system. To them it's the number 6 (pronounced 'leo'). The use of it in western culture has allowed them to adopt it as a way of saying something is cool. They will say 666 (pronounced "leo leo leo") while making the hand gesture to say something is cool. This fact was very fun to explain to my ultra conservative family back in the states.

Source: I taught in China for nine years in an international school with a very large Brazilian community.

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[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

So, while stereotypical, the surfer sign meaning isn't far off!

Radical 🤙

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[–] GrymEdm@lemmy.world 72 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Dude, radical emoji. That's just a gnarly way of tell someone to hang loose, bro. I've usually seen it done left-to-right instead of up-and-down, but the universe is infinite so if you wanna flip it that's totally copacetic.

Edit: I started thinking about surfers and it dragged up memories of this legend on Tosh.0

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's good to hang loose? What if stuff falls out?

[–] GrymEdm@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

"Hang loose" is what you tell someone who needs to chill out and let the waves carry them away from their problems man. Align your chakras with the Earth and so on.

Seriously though, the reason I wrote like that is I'm using the slang of roughly 90s/2000s-ish California surfer culture, which is where the hand signal was used to tell people to relax and be happy. Or say hi and let them know you are relaxed and happy. If you imagine it as a gang sign for surfer hippies you aren't far off.

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[–] RonnieB@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] thebigslime@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Jennifer is pooping at parties, and she is letting peoples know?!

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'm starting to think you're not here in good faith.

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[–] thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Directly translated it means "radical broh! let's smoke some weed."

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[–] downdaemon@lemmy.ml 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 9 points 1 month ago

Check the urban dictionary link that Kokolores posted, that's your answer! :D

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[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 37 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

It may be Shaka, but in Unicode and emoji it's "call me" https://emojipedia.org/call-me-hand

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[–] Kokolores@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] CEbbinghaus@lemmy.world 27 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

The amount of people that dont know about shakas is killing me. No culture

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

I knew it meant "hang loose", but I've never heard the term.

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[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Isn't it a surfer thing? Like hang ten, radical, man.

[–] zerodawn@leaf.dance 19 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Trex202@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago

When the walls fell!

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 17 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

This emoji has two meanings:

  1. the "original" meaning is based on the "shaka sign" from Hawai'ian culture. It's often paired with the phrase "hang loose", which generally just means to relax, have a good time, etc.

  2. When ~~mobile~~ telephones first started to become mainstream, they would have ~~an antenna that extended up and out of the phone chassis~~ a speaker and a receiver that you would speak directly into, so people picked up this gesture that mimicked the shape of a ~~cell~~ phone. Pressing it against your cheek with the pinky finger in front of your mouth and the thumb covering the opening of your ear would be accompanied by saying or mouthing "call me" was pretty universally understood and was one way to communicate the desire to speak on the phone from a distance where you could still visually see someone but shouting was ineffective or impractical.

edit: some people have clarified that the gesture predates cell phones, which makes sense.

[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

This way predates cell phones. Handsets have been in use for... Nearly 100 years I think. Not sure exactly when the gesture caught on our it's origin.

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[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

It’s a friendly gesture. Shaka / hang loose.

[–] uebquauntbez@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago

Symbol for the hand used like a good old telephone receiver. Thumb is near ones ear, the little finger is near ones mouth. Used here in Germany when land line were used more often to show someone behind a window: I'll call you (later).

[–] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hang ten. Or Call me? That’s a stretch but kinda like a phone

[–] parpol@programming.dev 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

"Call me" is definitely what it used to mean in the 90s

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

Only if you hold your hand to your head. This is hang ten, and you wiggle your wrist back and forth while looking totally radical, dude!

[–] walter_wiggles 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

When in doubt, see the emojipedia. Yes, there’s an encyclopedia for explaining what different emoji mean.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

Oh, that's just Blondie.

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[–] y8h8do3a2vg5@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

Some cultures have a way of counting to ten on one hand. This represents six in one version of that system.

[–] ShortFuse@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Hang ten, dude!

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