Does anyone remember when they first started using this symbol or at least when it became public, and there was a Mickey mouse at Disney that took a photo with a black child and made that symbol? Fucking sick. He got fired right away once the parents noticed and complained obviously.
What really shivers their diapies is the "plausible deniably" juice for gaslighting. It gives them tingles in their happy holes to say someone is being paranoid and just imagining the clear symbols of toddlerism, like when Elon threw the most blatant Heil Hitler salute in 80 years and then did it again to make it clear. "Heehee we pwned shum libz"
This picture was taken at the beginning of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017. The 3rd toddler in the picture is James Alex Fields Jr who drove his car into a crowd of people protesting the rally, killing one person and injuring 35 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlottesville_car_attack
That used to be the ok signal. I am pissed that I have to mentally unlearn using this for ok because a bunch of white supremacists took it over. Every time I accidentally use it im mentally kicking myself now.
Story time - I work in a field involving roadside equipment. My last job had a small test facility and we'd hire locals as drivers. Just a quick, "Hey you free? We'll pay more than the local supermarket."
One time I was brought down as the new QA analyst wasn't getting along and I had experience. Get there, turns out her QA experience was with automated banking systems. And she was used to just running a prompt and seeing it done. (She was also Indian. Chekhov's gun says this matters.) 1/?
But I'm thinking ok... She would just go up to the drivers, "We're doing test case 4-5." They didn't have a clue what that meant, so I'd just act as the go-between. When she came out, "we're doing this test case", I'd translate.
One afternoon one of the drivers came up to me and was going on about "Oh she just stands up there and shouts orders." I try to agree, saying she's new and needs to learn.
He smirked, "Amen to that brother" and flashed that sign. Took a day and then...OOOOhhh....
I think it is more dependant on the person using the sign. One could hold a small glass in the circle to tip it toward the signer for "okay" while the other would tip it away from the signer.
Which is odd considering they're "christian" but support MAGA who Musk was the vice president for a while and literally wore a suit of satanic armor, makes the brain chip as the mark of the beast, and is in competition with Thiel. Ohh, and Trump made an AI picture of him with Baal in the sky above his head.
A lot of the ridiculous ideas enbraced by the chuds started as 4chan troll posts. I genuinely believe a big reason for things being the way they are is simply that normies got on the Internet, and normies couldn't handle it.
People just assume I'm a Trumper because I'm a veteran. Sir, I am a 90s punk rocker who ended up there by a number of interesting life choices at the time. I did my duty, but don't think for a second I'm a government shill.
With the hand pointed upwards it's the well-known 'okay' hand gesture. In order to avoid confusion, can these twats please make a new gesture, like putting their hand up their own arse? To my knowledge, no hand gesture like that is currently in existence.
Dont lump these CHUDs in with people born woth small penises. They had no choice in the matter, these assholes do have a choice to not be bigoted pieces of shit.
"We don't make fun of people's looks except if it's people we don't like" does seem to be the rule of thumb here (and one I've frequently got downvoted for calling out).
Yeah, it's dangerously close to eugenics. The size of your penis does not dictate your political, behavioral tendencies in the same way that skin color, nose shape, lip shape, or any other anatomical feature does not. If we believe the mythos about African men having above average penis sizes, then we should see a strong trend towards less bigoted, hateful stances, right? Should see fewer homophobes or transphobes if that were true. Nope, same as everyone else. Upbringing plays a larger role.
Yeah, but if you kill everyone with an average or above sized penis, your length now becomes the world average. 4d chess move. I mean, rationally it does follow logic.
*I do not condone either racism or violence against anyone, just making a joke ;)
This is the true problem of the world, why we have terrible leaders despite elections, why we have war, poverty, and all the bad things. The grand majority of the population is exceedingly dumb.
Except there has been a decades long massively funded global campaign using the most advanced knowledge of the human mind to undermine education and basic empathy with propaganda. It didn't just happen, it was orchestrated. This wasn't inevitable. Trouble is, there's no real way out of it without facing the fact that you've been a genuinely shit person. Mosr would rather stay in, until they reach their pain threshold. Even then most deny responsibility. So they fall for it again.
Maybe people have heard it used as an insult more than I. Oh well, I've always been under the impression that men who hate like that usually are compensating for insecurities down there. As an aside though, I love your usernam. Thank you for being polite as well. I hope you have a great day!
This actually started as a 4Chan prank. They just started posting a fake story about how racists are using the OK symbol as code for "white power". The three fingers are the W, and the circle with the arm is the P. 4Chan made it up to trick stupid journalists and people on facebook. The lie spread, and actual white nationalists started using the fake "secret symbol". The whole point is to make everyone look stupid, and turn a lie into reality.
I remember when they were doing that, and have tried to tell people on imgur a few times but i always got downvoted into oblivion. Good to know there are other people who are aware of the whole story. Still its crazy that it actually took off
Fascists always twist everything, all of nazi ideology is taking historical symbology (the swastika), greek plays (atlantis), and history (aryan- meaning anyone using a language derived from the indo-european language, which includes slavs and arabs) stripping out 99% of the meaning and using them as a gateway to their ideas. Modern fascists use "colorful jokes" as the modern gateway to their ideology with plausable deniability. When they say joke, think workshopping.
Racists on 4chan were trying to prove liberals and journalists were gullible and would fall into mass hysteria about it. But the liberals didn't care, and instead the right wing fell for it. So they inadvertently proved that the right wing racists were the gullible bunch.
I remember being in that thread and thinking "this is the dumbest shit ever." Fast forward like 3 weeks and it was being shared across the world as a fact, and now white supremacists are actually doing it. It still makes me facepalm every time I see it.
some dude flashed this white power sign at me right before he called me "brother" and proceeded to tell me how he needs $6.38 for bus fare because his sister has cancer and his car broke down and his dog doesn't like him or whatever. like our shared lack of skin pigment bonds us in some mystical way.
Yeah it's really annoying. Because then a bunch of "always online" people started calling people who have used it for "OK" their whole lives racists out of seemingly nowhere.
It is fun to learn about code words, secret symbols, and dog whistles. I love calling out dog whistles and learning about shit like this. It sucks to have that weaponized against us. It sucks in people who catch the first layer of "hidden meaning" and don't think to look for a second layer. Ultimately good hearted people who didn't fact check enough. "They're a little confused, but they've got the spirit" or whatever the Fresh Prince quote is.,
Same as people who liked Norse or Germanic runes before they got co-opted. There's nothing new under the sun. The only question is, do we want to let them have it, or not? Because it *can* be reclaimed.
The general consensus seems to be that fascists can have whatever they want, because refusing to stop doing whatever innocuous thing they're stealing might offend someone.
YepIamStealingYourMeMes
Not that it matters but, they’re never attractive.
wanderleisantosf10
And in Brazil it's equivalent to the middle finger.
cousteau
Hi, sign expert here. This actually means "ha, made you look", but it needs to be done under the waist.
SJBSavageInk
It also means money in Asia. 😅
Does anyone remember when they first started using this symbol or at least when it became public, and there was a Mickey mouse at Disney that took a photo with a black child and made that symbol? Fucking sick. He got fired right away once the parents noticed and complained obviously.
DeakVanNyke
That’s the Circle Game 👊🏼
ChewyTheWookie
What really shivers their diapies is the "plausible deniably" juice for gaslighting. It gives them tingles in their happy holes to say someone is being paranoid and just imagining the clear symbols of toddlerism, like when Elon threw the most blatant Heil Hitler salute in 80 years and then did it again to make it clear. "Heehee we pwned shum libz"
PileOfWalthers
Timmy!
daguq
It was also the hand sign used by Saka to celebrate his third goal against France in the 3rd place game.
buttstuph
ChewyTheWookie
This picture was taken at the beginning of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017. The 3rd toddler in the picture is James Alex Fields Jr who drove his car into a crowd of people protesting the rally, killing one person and injuring 35
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlottesville_car_attack
bripi
It's also - with the three fingers up and splayed - how referees signal 3 points in wrestling.
BluePlanet514
3 point shot??
OtisTDrunk
Thorketil
And then there was also this fascist
layinginbedfeelinglikeaquesarito
It’s also how you lose the game
ilhares
Just mentioning it or remembering the game is how you lose the game.
layinginbedfeelinglikeaquesarito
And now we’re both down by two
vengul
I remember a game with that sign...
Maybe if I should see it, I will pretend they are playing but I forgot the rules 😉
Radioactivewand1337
That used to be the ok signal. I am pissed that I have to mentally unlearn using this for ok because a bunch of white supremacists took it over. Every time I accidentally use it im mentally kicking myself now.
SirLantsBojangles
This is the scuba diving symbol for OK as in okay to continue deeper and I will not let them have this.
freakdiablo
Story time - I work in a field involving roadside equipment. My last job had a small test facility and we'd hire locals as drivers. Just a quick, "Hey you free? We'll pay more than the local supermarket."
One time I was brought down as the new QA analyst wasn't getting along and I had experience. Get there, turns out her QA experience was with automated banking systems. And she was used to just running a prompt and seeing it done. (She was also Indian. Chekhov's gun says this matters.) 1/?
freakdiablo
But I'm thinking ok... She would just go up to the drivers, "We're doing test case 4-5." They didn't have a clue what that meant, so I'd just act as the go-between. When she came out, "we're doing this test case", I'd translate.
One afternoon one of the drivers came up to me and was going on about "Oh she just stands up there and shouts orders." I try to agree, saying she's new and needs to learn.
He smirked, "Amen to that brother" and flashed that sign. Took a day and then...OOOOhhh....
Fyrebaugh
When I was in high school that was a game to see who could be tricked into looking at that sign... You could get punched if caught looking at it.
BibWin
That came to my minde too, had the same in Switzerland
AverySillyName
MyVirginityIsGrowingBack
Evenmoreuselessname
You can't just post a pic of your asshole here. Your account's gonna get banned
FlintNorth44
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Fanner50
Used by scuba divers to ask and answer “are you OK”.
Thumbs up is used to indicate “I’m going up”
cousteau
And if they're too far away, make a circle with your whole arm. And that's about all I remember about diving. That and not to go up too fast.
JonnyTightlips
That's flipped though, the standard "ok" hand symbol
Fanner50
Depends on your relative position in the water when signaling. If I am above you, it may come out as pictured.
vengul
I think it is more dependant on the person using the sign. One could hold a small glass in the circle to tip it toward the signer for "okay" while the other would tip it away from the signer.
floatationman
I think context is important here. There are relatively few discussions on racial power dynamics in the middle of a dive.
Rosferatu
Millstone85
And the number of the beast. 😈
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SonBro
https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1Y3FxcDhzczJjY254ZDlma2xqeHVrcW56aGRwc2l6MWQ2cTZjcHJpdiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/j1yf3q6hrnE8bft752/200w.webp
Necrothean
Hidden Iruma-kun reference FTW
HoneyandFire
Which is odd considering they're "christian" but support MAGA who Musk was the vice president for a while and literally wore a suit of satanic armor, makes the brain chip as the mark of the beast, and is in competition with Thiel. Ohh, and Trump made an AI picture of him with Baal in the sky above his head.
johneventually1
satanic armor?
yamsonyamsonyams
And th circle game
This being a white power symbol was a joke someone pulled on Reddit or 4chan now it stuck and the circle game was taken from us
JonnyHeat
A lot of the ridiculous ideas enbraced by the chuds started as 4chan troll posts. I genuinely believe a big reason for things being the way they are is simply that normies got on the Internet, and normies couldn't handle it.
mikeatike
It means we are obligated to punch them.
SalsaBeard
FUCK ME GOD DAMMIT!!!!!!
I lost the game.
11Weasel11
We used to play the circle game when I was in the Marine Corps. "You looked!". "That's 2 for flinching!".
yamsonyamsonyams
A few years ago, people got very upset that service members were photographed making the “white power” hand gesture
It was some 20 year-old trying to be funny doing the circle game
You know how many people called me a Trumper at the time for stating the correct fact that these allegations were horseshit ?
11Weasel11
People just assume I'm a Trumper because I'm a veteran. Sir, I am a 90s punk rocker who ended up there by a number of interesting life choices at the time. I did my duty, but don't think for a second I'm a government shill.
steve1378
Deciding to believe that someone just pranked a bunch af human detritus into thinking it was a white nationalist symbol.
Gotcha44
With the hand pointed upwards it's the well-known 'okay' hand gesture.
In order to avoid confusion, can these twats please make a new gesture, like putting their hand up their own arse? To my knowledge, no hand gesture like that is currently in existence.
somethingdark
Actually, that's the symbol for "I'm a puppet"
Gotcha44
Good point, but they are puppets, so I guess it fits.
brendino87
A bunch of simpletons who think that eliminating other races will solve their micropenis problems
Sorry boys, its genetic
HoneyandFire
Yeah eliminating other races like Palestinians too. Sad.
SecondSince
Well they've already tried making their cars and bikes pointlessly loud. What else could they do?!
Rosferatu
SlamCampbell
Dont lump these CHUDs in with people born woth small penises. They had no choice in the matter, these assholes do have a choice to not be bigoted pieces of shit.
DutchBoeremeisie
"We don't make fun of people's looks except if it's people we don't like" does seem to be the rule of thumb here (and one I've frequently got downvoted for calling out).
MipMop
Yeah, it's dangerously close to eugenics. The size of your penis does not dictate your political, behavioral tendencies in the same way that skin color, nose shape, lip shape, or any other anatomical feature does not. If we believe the mythos about African men having above average penis sizes, then we should see a strong trend towards less bigoted, hateful stances, right? Should see fewer homophobes or transphobes if that were true. Nope, same as everyone else. Upbringing plays a larger role.
relsky
Can we please stop using body shaming bullshit like this?
Volirus
Yeah, but if you kill everyone with an average or above sized penis, your length now becomes the world average. 4d chess move. I mean, rationally it does follow logic.
*I do not condone either racism or violence against anyone, just making a joke ;)
brendino87
Lol I like you
BeaverOnFire
https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1cW9wd2Fpd2V4d3F5MXdwYjd2eXhwOHVnb3BldmZmYjliNnk2Mm92dCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/YYht2UTV41u1vxHTss/200w.webp
Aranon1183
Its what is genetic? Or did you mean "it's"?
brendino87
T'was autocorrect that failed me oh powerful grammar lord.
Forgive my atrocities as they were not intended.
Crazyhuskylover
I mean if we got rid of all the orange people in the us we might be better off...
IlDepo
Problem is, these simpletons are the majority of population, and I'm not referring only to the USA.
We live in a world dominated by morons.
KaptainObveeus
This is the true problem of the world, why we have terrible leaders despite elections, why we have war, poverty, and all the bad things. The grand majority of the population is exceedingly dumb.
crazyspelling
*Georgecarlin.exe has stopped running*
clrich912
Except there has been a decades long massively funded global campaign using the most advanced knowledge of the human mind to undermine education and basic empathy with propaganda. It didn't just happen, it was orchestrated. This wasn't inevitable. Trouble is, there's no real way out of it without facing the fact that you've been a genuinely shit person. Mosr would rather stay in, until they reach their pain threshold. Even then most deny responsibility. So they fall for it again.
brendino87
I assume my downvotes are MAGATS with said micropenis
Sorry boys, science trumps your logic
Lol see what I did there?
powwerbottom
Meh, maybe just people who are tired of "micropenis" being used as the worst insult some can think of
brendino87
Maybe people have heard it used as an insult more than I.
Oh well, I've always been under the impression that men who hate like that usually are compensating for insecurities down there.
As an aside though, I love your usernam.
Thank you for being polite as well. I hope you have a great day!
doctorId
allergictocantaloupe
This actually started as a 4Chan prank. They just started posting a fake story about how racists are using the OK symbol as code for "white power". The three fingers are the W, and the circle with the arm is the P. 4Chan made it up to trick stupid journalists and people on facebook. The lie spread, and actual white nationalists started using the fake "secret symbol". The whole point is to make everyone look stupid, and turn a lie into reality.
Daarst
Qanon also started as a dumb 4chan joke. Don't underestimate the gullibility of idiots.
FlintNorth44
At this point, if you didn't realize 4chan is being used as a neo-nazi/foreign agent psy-op, then you aren't paying attention.
drpain522
I remember when they were doing that, and have tried to tell people on imgur a few times but i always got downvoted into oblivion. Good to know there are other people who are aware of the whole story. Still its crazy that it actually took off
CrazyGingerAle
made up or not oroginally when you start using it in a certain wayit becomes the symble of that group
IlsPls
Fascists always twist everything, all of nazi ideology is taking historical symbology (the swastika), greek plays (atlantis), and history (aryan- meaning anyone using a language derived from the indo-european language, which includes slavs and arabs) stripping out 99% of the meaning and using them as a gateway to their ideas. Modern fascists use "colorful jokes" as the modern gateway to their ideology with plausable deniability. When they say joke, think workshopping.
SarcasticComment
i don't believe this because 4Chan decided to not be rscist for once
abidikgubidik
Racists on 4chan were trying to prove liberals and journalists were gullible and would fall into mass hysteria about it. But the liberals didn't care, and instead the right wing fell for it. So they inadvertently proved that the right wing racists were the gullible bunch.
1stCivDiv1371
I hate that these shits stole the game from me
KittenVonCatsworth
I remember being in that thread and thinking "this is the dumbest shit ever." Fast forward like 3 weeks and it was being shared across the world as a fact, and now white supremacists are actually doing it. It still makes me facepalm every time I see it.
drpain522
It really is one of the weirdest things that internet created and somehow became a widely spread thing
themuffulettaisalsoaverygoodsandwich
some dude flashed this white power sign at me right before he called me "brother" and proceeded to tell me how he needs $6.38 for bus fare because his sister has cancer and his car broke down and his dog doesn't like him or whatever. like our shared lack of skin pigment bonds us in some mystical way.
DangerBaer
Meth'll do that. *shrug*
Sidewaysgts
Should’ve told him you don’t support socialism and insist he get a job
MassiveCollisionY
I remember the original post for this and can confirm. Was a good laugh until they actually adopted it...
SofaH3ro
Yeah it's really annoying. Because then a bunch of "always online" people started calling people who have used it for "OK" their whole lives racists out of seemingly nowhere.
allergictocantaloupe
It is fun to learn about code words, secret symbols, and dog whistles. I love calling out dog whistles and learning about shit like this. It sucks to have that weaponized against us. It sucks in people who catch the first layer of "hidden meaning" and don't think to look for a second layer. Ultimately good hearted people who didn't fact check enough. "They're a little confused, but they've got the spirit" or whatever the Fresh Prince quote is.,
justfillingthespace
Same as people who liked Norse or Germanic runes before they got co-opted. There's nothing new under the sun. The only question is, do we want to let them have it, or not? Because it *can* be reclaimed.
CommodoreSkippy
The general consensus seems to be that fascists can have whatever they want, because refusing to stop doing whatever innocuous thing they're stealing might offend someone.
johnblood616
Except the "ok" is usually not done upside down
THEREDHO0D
I usually use that hand signal as the "opp made you look gotcha"
Lakesrid
I came looking for this comment as that's the first thing that came up in my mind as well.