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 6 months ago by wesker@lemmy.sdf.org to [deleted]
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GrymEdm@lemmy.world 6 months ago
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
It’s good to hang loose? What if stuff falls out?
GrymEdm@lemmy.world 6 months 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 6 months ago
I’m starting to think you’re not here in good faith.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Didn’t like tosh.o much, but this one is pretty great
thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Directly translated it means “radical broh! let’s smoke some weed.”
Tyfud@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The only correct answer in the thread.
iamtrashman1312@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Most tubular brah
Obi@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
And then you get pitted (so pitted).
downdaemon@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Shaka brah
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
What’s that mean?
Asafum@feddit.nl 6 months ago
Check the urban dictionary link that Kokolores posted, that’s your answer! :D
Orbituary@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Google.com
Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Hang tight.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It may be the Shaka, but in emoji it’s “call me” emojipedia.org/call-me-hand
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months ago
The amount or people that dont know about shakas is killing me. No culture
shalafi@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I knew it meant “hang loose”, but I’ve never heard the term.
renrenPDX@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Known it as hang loose since the 80’s from Hawaii
CEbbinghaus@lemmy.world 6 months 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 6 months ago
Why ? The sign has different meaning in different cultures. It is just your ignorance of anything outside your bubble.
Kokolores@lemmy.world 6 months ago
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
Thank you.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Isn’t it a surfer thing? Like hang ten, radical, man.
zerodawn@leaf.dance 6 months ago
Trex202@lemmy.world 6 months ago
When the walls fell!
Furbag@lemmy.world 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months ago
It’s a friendly gesture. Shaka / hang loose.
uebquauntbez@lemmy.world 6 months 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 6 months ago
Call me
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
I don’t know you.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Oh, that’s just Blondie.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
When in doubt, see the emojipedia.
walter_wiggles@lemmy.nz 6 months ago
🤙
aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Hang ten. Or Call me? That’s a stretch but kinda like a phone
parpol@programming.dev 6 months ago
“Call me” is definitely what it used to mean in the 90s
Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months ago
1F919 - Call Me Hand
Orbituary@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I think maybe this sub is a little too lenient with its name.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Would you rather lick she-hulk’s pussy? Or get tied up with wonder womans truth lasso?
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
She-hulk, final answer.
uienia@lemmy.world 6 months ago
There were in fact stupid questions.
BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s the “call me hand” emoji.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Sometimes a pinky is fun
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 6 months 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 6 months ago
Hang tight, dude!
NeilBru@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Hang loose, brah.
CubitOom@infosec.pub 6 months ago
Its the Shaka, Hawaii’s official state hand gesture.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaka_sign
curiousaur@reddthat.com 6 months ago
Of course the fucking Mormons are trying to own it.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Who copied it from the freemasons
BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It is not the shaka. It’s the “call me sign” emoji.
Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s not the call me hand, it’s the hang loose emoji!
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
Thank you.
BossDj@lemm.ee 6 months 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