Hang loose, brah.
1F919 - Call Me Hand
https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-9.0/U90-1F900.pdf
This emoji has two meanings:
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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.
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When
mobiletelephones first started to become mainstream, they would havean antenna that extended up and out of the phone chassisa speaker and a receiver that you would speak directly into, so people picked up this gesture that mimicked the shape of acellphone. 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.
I remember using the second definition in elementary school in the early 90s, before cell phones were on common use, long before they flipped open, and even before they had extendable antennas. I suppose they might have been a cordless landline, but I always assumed it was a corded phone. The "call me" message, then, wasn't about being able to see someone but not hear them except in very specific circumstances; instead, it was implied to mean "call me later." It could be used as a way of flirting, or it could be more platonic. I suppose it could also be used in a business setting, though I wasn't really old enough to know.
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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Directly translated it means "radical broh! let's smoke some weed."
And then you get pitted (so pitted).
Most tubular brah
The only correct answer in the thread.
shaka when the walls fell
Temba, his arms wide
Sokath, his eyes open.
Ahh, beat me to it
Its the Shaka, Hawaii’s official state hand gesture.
Of course the fucking Mormons are trying to own it.
Who copied it from the freemasons
It may be Shaka, but in Unicode and emoji it's "call me" https://emojipedia.org/call-me-hand
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
It's good to hang loose? What if stuff falls out?
"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.
Didn't like tosh.o much, but this one is pretty great
Shaka brah
What's that mean?
Check the urban dictionary link that Kokolores posted, that's your answer! :D
Hang ten.
The amount of people that dont know about shakas is killing me. No culture
Why ? The sign has different meaning in different cultures. It is just your ignorance of anything outside your bubble.
Aging yourself, mate
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).
When the walls fell!
Isn't it a surfer thing? Like hang ten, radical, man.
It’s a friendly gesture. Shaka / hang loose.
Some cultures have a way of counting to ten on one hand. This represents six in one version of that system.
Ask genx
Call me
I don't know you.
Oh, that's just Blondie.
When in doubt, see the emojipedia. Yes, there’s an encyclopedia for explaining what different emoji mean.
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Hang ten. Or Call me? That’s a stretch but kinda like a phone
"Call me" is definitely what it used to mean in the 90s
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!
Hang ten, dude!
Sometimes a pinky is fun
It's the "call me hand" emoji.
I'm surprised they made an emoji for something as obscene as this but you know that "two in the pink, one in the stink" thing for the shocker? This is along the same lines: One in the pink, one giving your lady a thumbs up to tell her you're a chill dude and having a good time.
Doesn't work as well on guys unless he's flexible or has a bunch of strategically-placed mirrors.
I think maybe this sub is a little too lenient with its name.
There were in fact stupid questions.
Would you rather lick she-hulk's pussy? Or get tied up with wonder womans truth lasso?
She-hulk, final answer.
