Dude, radical emoji. That’s just a gnarly way of tell someone to hang loose, bro.
What does this emoji mean? Is this a British thumbs up?
Submitted 1 year ago by wesker@lemmy.sdf.org to [deleted]
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GrymEdm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
It’s good to hang loose? What if stuff falls out?
GrymEdm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“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.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m starting to think you’re not here in good faith.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Didn’t like tosh.o much, but this one is pretty great
thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Directly translated it means “radical broh! let’s smoke some weed.”
Tyfud@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The only correct answer in the thread.
iamtrashman1312@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Most tubular brah
Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
And then you get pitted (so pitted).
downdaemon@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Shaka brah
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
What’s that mean?
Asafum@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Check the urban dictionary link that Kokolores posted, that’s your answer! :D
Orbituary@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Google.com
Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hang tight.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It may be the Shaka, but in emoji it’s “call me” emojipedia.org/call-me-hand
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The angle of the fingers is all weird. The middle three and the wrist should be pointing up-right, not up.
marcos@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The one on the GP’s link is a bit better. Maybe even recognizable.
I wonder what system the OP’s one comes from.
CEbbinghaus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The amount or people that dont know about shakas is killing me. No culture
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I knew it meant “hang loose”, but I’ve never heard the term.
renrenPDX@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Known it as hang loose since the 80’s from Hawaii
CEbbinghaus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Dont need to have heard the term. Just need to know it’s rough meaning. Some people really think it means “call me” which while a valid interpretation also messes with its actual meaning
red_pigeon@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Why ? The sign has different meaning in different cultures. It is just your ignorance of anything outside your bubble.
Kokolores@lemmy.world 1 year ago
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Thank you.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Isn’t it a surfer thing? Like hang ten, radical, man.
zerodawn@leaf.dance 1 year ago
Trex202@lemmy.world 1 year ago
When the walls fell!
Furbag@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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 mobile telephones first started to become mainstream, they would often have an antenna that extended up and out of the phone chassis and a receiver that flipped down 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.
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
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OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s a friendly gesture. Shaka / hang loose.
uebquauntbez@lemmy.world 1 year 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).
walter_wiggles@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
Call me
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
I don’t know you.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh, that’s just Blondie.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
When in doubt, see the emojipedia.
walter_wiggles@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
🤙
aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Hang ten. Or Call me? That’s a stretch but kinda like a phone
parpol@programming.dev 1 year ago
“Call me” is definitely what it used to mean in the 90s
Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 year 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!
y8h8do3a2vg5@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
1F919 - Call Me Hand
Orbituary@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think maybe this sub is a little too lenient with its name.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Would you rather lick she-hulk’s pussy? Or get tied up with wonder womans truth lasso?
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
She-hulk, final answer.
uienia@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There were in fact stupid questions.
BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s the “call me hand” emoji.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Sometimes a pinky is fun
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hang tight, dude!
NeilBru@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hang loose, brah.
CubitOom@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Its the Shaka, Hawaii’s official state hand gesture.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaka_sign
curiousaur@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Of course the fucking Mormons are trying to own it.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Who copied it from the freemasons
BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It is not the shaka. It’s the “call me sign” emoji.
Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s not the call me hand, it’s the hang loose emoji!
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Thank you.
BossDj@lemm.ee 1 year ago
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