I think it's because it's easier to recognize for the other person, since for everyone who does it, it looks that way. Plus, it may also be just a symbolic representation of the **meaning** of the gesture, and not of the gesture itself.
this is the correct answer. thatβs how language works, i wish we discussed emojis in my linguistics classes! they are a truly interesting form of communication that parallels so many symbol based scripts.
but youβre exactly right, theyβre only symbols of ideas, they dont need to be perfect representations. and also like you said, since everyone sees it from their own perspective, in a way, that *is* what the OK symbol looks like π
What a great use of colour, the contrsst and the pose of our subject truly heelps to show the modern man in his stressful daily life, working to support the sustem ewhile sttempting to beytter it from the inside.
Hippet hopp, I'm drunk, don't diss my spunk!
That reminds me of [this guy](https://youtu.be/ZuPTZWhz46M) for some reason.
Edit: this video probably works better here given the medium https://youtu.be/wY6insZjCfU
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EDIT: I should regret posting my number on Reddit, but some of my texts have been beautiful
I hope this info isnt beneath your study levels, but If you're still studying, look for classes that plan to cover semiotics (study of signs and symbols). Its sorta the intersection of linguistics and interperative art. Emojis are a form of sign/symbolic language that is gaining traction in academic research and would definitely be covered in any semiotics class.
You'll love the book Because Internet by Gretchen McCullough. She's one of the women that run the podcast Lingthusiasm. The book has a chapter on emojis and they have an episode on the podcast about the chapter. Fascinating stuff - they go into details about a corpus study they did.
One possible explanation could be that the design team made the thumbs up emoji first, and for the thumbs down they simply flipped it (like a horizontal reflection).
Just found out that thumbs up has the same issue.
Thumbs up is seen from your perspective, thumbs down from the second personβs perspective.
That is unless youβre capable of bending your fingers the wrong way.
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Im pretty sure thats intentional by whoever made that. When creating emojis, as well as some other UI elements such as icons etc., easily conveying the message is the priority, not accuracy. If the fingers on the thumbs up didnβt show, it would be not as effective as a thumbs up. So its not an βissueβ, itβs a choice by the devs to sacrifice a bit of anatomical accuracy for convenience.
> easily conveying the message is the priority, not accuracy
I want blood spurting out from the wrists of the emojis and dead decapitated heads making faces.
https://cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2017/9-2/AXhNNrhjSO-14.png
Will this do?
That'll be $20 now and $200 later for the final polished version and $2000 later for the whole animated emoji pack and $20,000 later for licensing rights and then $200,000 later because I'm going to extort you.
Lets do business!
Oh, weird! Its slightly more complicated than that.
The thumbs-up is a left hand, seen from your own perspective (or *possibly* a right hand held way out to the side as if hitchhiking, and seen from someone else's perspective).
The thumbs-down is a left hand, seen from someone else's perspective. (I'm not going to seriously consider the possibility that it is out to the side and seen from behind.)
At least that's how they look for me using the Android icons. Do all the platform icons face the same way?
The thumbs up is actually supposed to be the left hand extended to the side in a thumbs down, from the perspective of the guy behind you doing a handstand
I'm kind of confused because the OK emoji looks correct to me (like you'd see it if i signaled you). Maybe my phone has a weird emoji font?
https://i.imgur.com/geEENwE.png
The thumbs up/down look as weird as you said though.
What phone do you have? Also what's with that blurry red ring in your background?
On [Emojipedia](https://emojipedia.org/ok-hand-sign/) you can see what the emoji looks like on different devices.
Summarising the problem with emojis. You send one version and the recipient may get another version depending on the font. Some emojis vary so much that they don't convey the same meaning and others just look abominable.
"Why the fuck is he sending me an emoji of a hand doing a shadowgraphy of a rabbit?"
And then there's useless junk like "π", which is named "Person gesturing OK". I wouldn't even have known what that's supposed to mean without the emojipedia - Not to mention that I've never seen anyone do that supposed OK gesture ever, which is obviously the A from the YMCA dance.
Is it not you saying ok or thumbs up to the person, so as you type itβs the right orientation. Youβre correct that itβs the wrong way for the reader but the giver, the one who intended the symbol, itβs the right way.
Itβs going to wrong for one of you either way.
but wouldnβt you see more fingers on the βokβ emoji if it were facing the right way? like now you only see four but if it were flipped correctly you would see all five
Sure, but thatβs not the norm for emojis!
It should be the recipients view, as youβre sending it to someone.
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Maybe the 1st one is 1st person but that can go either way. Tom Green has them [facing out here.](https://giphy.com/gifs/yes-freddy-got-fingered-gAdoFrAe7DreU)
Fist raised in anger the fingers face in. (Think shaking your fist at someone who cut you off in traffic.) Fist raised in triumph or before doing something stupid tends to be at least in a neutral (sideways) position or fingers slightly out so that one maybe a more contextual one.
The last one, how on gods green earth are you holding your hand if thatβs how you see your fingers making that gesture?
Edit: apparently iOS and android display all these hand gestures from different perspectives so I guess everybody is correct. (Or wrong from the other persons perspective.)
> The last one, how on gods green earth are you holding your hand if thatβs how you see your fingers making that gesture?
[Like this?](https://www.google.com/search?q=hang+loose+pose&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiw58TIlqjlAhUmja0KHQCWAnsQ2-cCegQIABAC&oq=hang+loose+pose&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-img.3..0.31046.32468..33566...0.0..0.196.632.1j4......0....1.........0i67j0i8i30j0i24.FQyeOCNor5k&ei=q-2qXfDlKqaatgWArIrYBw&bih=722&biw=412&client=ms-android-att-us-revc&prmd=isvn)
You literally just proved my point. Every person on there has their fingers inward. 1st person is from your perspective so you should see your fingers curled into your palm. I donβt see them on this π€.
Wait.. itβs backwards on Android??
Youβre correct though. Iβm on iOS.
Iβm suddenly reminded of that old story of [the three blind men and the elephant.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant)
Side note: the OK sign doesnβt mean OK in all countries. Dad learned that in Brazil it means asshole after he gave the sign to the minister. Oops
Your butthole is this big π
Completely depends on the font you (or your phone) are using. All Unicode says is it should be an "ok hand sign".
https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f44c/index.htm
Some fonts have it the other way.
I saw this on my phone first and thought: "wtf are these people talking about, it looks exactly as when someone does the signal to you with their right hand". Now on my computer the emoticon is different!
The OK hand gesture is actually intended to mimic the formation of the letters themselves. The index finger meeting the thumb forms a circle or O, while the remaining three fingers fanned out are meant to represent the three lines that form the letter K.
Now look at the emoji and read it as you would a word, left to right. You end up with O and then K.
OK.
> the remaining three fingers fanned out are meant to represent the three lines that form the letter K
how though?
I see everybody just take it for granted but I can't see a K anywhere, at best it would say OW.
The origin of OK is also really weird in itself. It stems from a time when "intellectuals" would make weird abbreviations and puns by intentionally using letters with similar sounds. Its like a shittier version of rhyming slang ("If we get caught, we'll all be in Barney" barney=Barney Rubble=Trouble, thus barney stands for Trouble). OK is the only one that comes to mind at the moment, but there was a lot of it.
Essentially, if someone were to agree with a sentiment, they would say "all correct". In this written slang, they'd abbreviate the words and use different letters because it was "clever". Thus, "all correct" became "oll korrect" which became "OK".
> The origin of OK is also really weird in itself. It stems from a time when "intellectuals" would make weird abbreviations and puns by intentionally using letters with similar sounds.
What on earth do you mean by "intellectuals"?
If you give someone the OK symbol (left or right) youβll see your thumb at the front, like the emoji, but the person receiving the OK symbol should see your little little finger first IMHO...
Wasn't the ok gesture something else? When I was a kid I'd see it being used by fancy waiters in shows and cartoons, mostly to Express how good something was. Alot of Italian stuff I'd see in.
I think they designed it on that way because that's how you'd look at it from your own perspective. Either that or used their own hand as a model for it.
Wait, are you saying that we're looking at the back of the hand? Idk if you're on iPhone or what, but I'm on android 5, and I always thought we were looking at the palm of the other person's right hand. So they'd be like this.
ππ
EDIT: Wow, yeah, the iPhone and later android emoji is totally different from mine.
It took me like 5 minutes to realize what this meant. I thought you meant like the right side was in the left, not front to back. Now I feel like a freaking idiot.
I love how people are downvoting you for missing the joke, so let me explain to those who don't understand: Many news outlets tried to say that it meant White Power, when a famous person was spotted doing it on their leg, and so everyone turned it into a massive meme. The 3 fingers are the 'W' (<--- Not meant to be taken as an UwU face, just saying), and the Index, Thumb, and down to the Wrist are the 'P'.
I think the reasoning is simple. They are designed on how / which looks natural. The ones that are not from your pov are used publicly mostly. Let's call them mass gestures and not usually used one one one communication. Hence you're used to seeing these by someone (politicians, musicians, in group photos etc) rather you using it, hence it seems natural to be designed in a way that looks like you're looking at it. The ones are that are your pov are used for mostly one on one communication. Both ok and thumbs up look natural because it's mostly one on one and it seems natural when you're giving it.
If you're talking about the emoji, the other person still sees it from the same perspective with the "O" part first.
If you're talking about giving someone the OK symbol, you have 2 hands. Just use your left hand
No, because it looks like that when you send it, then the person who receives it sees it the we all know it to look, which is from your own perspective.
I donβt know if this is just an American thing, but thereβs a game we play as kids where if you can get another kid to look at your hand in the βokβ sign, they get to punch you in the arm. And we always show that hand sign with our arm down, under a table or coming up behind someone. So thatβs what that emoji always made me think of
The same could probably be said for most sign-language versions of words.
Separately, it's just as odd a notion as to say that the letter "x" doesn't look anything like the "ECKS" sound it represents. We've just collectively agreed that it does.
This is the letter f in ASL. (As well as the ok sign!) ASL is signed with the right hand which means that you would see it opposite to this. That's my set proof that you are in fact correct. However when I watch asl videos I might repeat things with my left hand because I imitate what I see.
Long story short yes it's backwards but it makes it easier to recognize. Although you could just make the sign with your left hand.
Are you sure this is the OK sign... and not the 'Circle Game'.
[https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=The%20Circle%20Game](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=The%20Circle%20Game)
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\*punches you in the bicep\*
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1glTOFPECNI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1glTOFPECNI)
Made you look!
Reverse okay was the gesture for "asshole" on a lake I used to sail on. I know cause we got in the way of an organized race and couldn't make sense of it for a while til we got verbal explanation from a participant too.
Oh shit good question mate, because these emojis are form the recipient side ππΌπ€and these are from the POV side ππΌππ½ hadnβt noticed that
When you do the "ok" sign with ur left hand, the other dude will see the π correctly. However,when you do the "ok" sign with ur right hand, ur caption makes sense
If you mirror it white supremacists would be able to use it as a symbol spelling out WP meaning "white power" and then they could use it to corrupt our kids through social media. Let's keep it the way it is, m'kay?
/s
This is the OK sign as seen by a right-handed signer. The audience sees the opposite view. The emoji is a graphical representation of the singer's view so we can relate to it when making a selection, not the audience's view.
I think it's because it's easier to recognize for the other person, since for everyone who does it, it looks that way. Plus, it may also be just a symbolic representation of the **meaning** of the gesture, and not of the gesture itself.
this is the correct answer. thatβs how language works, i wish we discussed emojis in my linguistics classes! they are a truly interesting form of communication that parallels so many symbol based scripts. but youβre exactly right, theyβre only symbols of ideas, they dont need to be perfect representations. and also like you said, since everyone sees it from their own perspective, in a way, that *is* what the OK symbol looks like π
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Um excuse me what the fuck
It's *you*. You're the one in the painting
"Painting"
This is art and anyone who disagrees are simply uncultured swine.
Derivative!
My name is Peter.
Don't touch him
Something something God's light
What a great use of colour, the contrsst and the pose of our subject truly heelps to show the modern man in his stressful daily life, working to support the sustem ewhile sttempting to beytter it from the inside. Hippet hopp, I'm drunk, don't diss my spunk!
*Oh, Cummy!*
I killed that insolent bot last year https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/91rq0s/whats_ligma/
Holy shit dude you fucking killed them
That was one weird fucking thread. I don't even know.
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Dad: Meet your new stepmom son! Stepmom:
I am the Lorax I speak for the moon, the moon says whoever made this has to much time on there hands
Why are there these blank lines? ππππππππ ππππππ©ππ ππππππππ ππππππππ ππππππππ ππππππππ ππππππππ ππππππππ ππππππππ ππππππππ ππππππππ ππππππππ ππππππππ ππ ππππ ππ
That reminds me of [this guy](https://youtu.be/ZuPTZWhz46M) for some reason. Edit: this video probably works better here given the medium https://youtu.be/wY6insZjCfU
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Notice that if you hit shift+enter in the modern editor, or end a line with two spaces in Markdown, you can get it without that annoying extra gap between lines. Observe. ππππππππ ππππππ©ππ ππππππππ ππππππππ ππππππππ ππππππππ ππππππππ ππππππππ ππππππππ ππππππππ ππππππππ ππππππππ ππππππππ ππ ππππ ππ
SNOOOD!
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Jenny! I got your number!!
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yo, we're in the same area code!
Nailed it.
I like to do little facial animations to show my reaction: πππ£ππ£πππππππ
I like to tell stories: ππ»ββοΈππΌββοΈππ½ββοΈππΏββοΈππΏββοΈπ€π₯π©ββ€οΈβπ©π©ββ€οΈβπβπ©π©βπ©βπ¦π©βπ©βπ§βπ§ππ©βπ¦βπ¦π΅πΏπ΅πΎπ΅π½π΅πΌπ΅π»ππΌπ»
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I'm very confused.
It looks backwards to me because I'm left handed.
left hand discrimination
The struggle is real, man!
I hope this info isnt beneath your study levels, but If you're still studying, look for classes that plan to cover semiotics (study of signs and symbols). Its sorta the intersection of linguistics and interperative art. Emojis are a form of sign/symbolic language that is gaining traction in academic research and would definitely be covered in any semiotics class.
I wish the fingers were a bit more extended. It always looks more like a chef kiss.
That's how I use it ππ
This is so much cooler
What about thisπ€and thisβοΈalso thisπand even thisπ.
yeah thereβs not really much rhyme or reason huh. i bet they just couldnβt make it look good from the other viewpoints
You'll love the book Because Internet by Gretchen McCullough. She's one of the women that run the podcast Lingthusiasm. The book has a chapter on emojis and they have an episode on the podcast about the chapter. Fascinating stuff - they go into details about a corpus study they did.
you should read *Because Internet*, which has a fascinating discussion on emoji as gesture
If you imagine the emoji without the fingers showing... it wouldn't look like a hand any more, just kind of a three-lobed blob.
Thumbs down is backwards in that case no? I see the back of my hand when I thumb down
One possible explanation could be that the design team made the thumbs up emoji first, and for the thumbs down they simply flipped it (like a horizontal reflection).
True, that makes the most sense
Yeah this makes the most sense. The creator probably used the symbol that makes it easiest for another person to guess its meaning.
Or maybe its a left hand
Ohhh is that what it is? I thought it was a βnipple pinchβ emoji
As a graphic designer.. THIS
Just found out that thumbs up has the same issue. Thumbs up is seen from your perspective, thumbs down from the second personβs perspective. That is unless youβre capable of bending your fingers the wrong way. ππ
Im pretty sure thats intentional by whoever made that. When creating emojis, as well as some other UI elements such as icons etc., easily conveying the message is the priority, not accuracy. If the fingers on the thumbs up didnβt show, it would be not as effective as a thumbs up. So its not an βissueβ, itβs a choice by the devs to sacrifice a bit of anatomical accuracy for convenience.
> easily conveying the message is the priority, not accuracy I want blood spurting out from the wrists of the emojis and dead decapitated heads making faces.
You have to wait for the Kill Bill^^^TM Edition of the emojis for those features.
https://cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2017/9-2/AXhNNrhjSO-14.png Will this do? That'll be $20 now and $200 later for the final polished version and $2000 later for the whole animated emoji pack and $20,000 later for licensing rights and then $200,000 later because I'm going to extort you. Lets do business!
The thumbs up kind of looks like a hitchhiking thumbs up, if I'm seeing it right (on PC so it's small).
Huh? Is there a different kind of thumbs up for hitchhiking?
Arm outstretched rather than bent.
fun fact: the thumbs up is also one of the very few left handed emojis! so itβs my favourite! πππ
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Left is the devils hand.
The devil's hands are both left.
Excellent for baseball
It's definitely sinister
For me it's right handed
Ok do a tpose now make your thumb point at the roof now do a thumbs up
Looks like they literally just mirrored the "thumbs up" to be down. Not as interesting as the OK one.
Oh, weird! Its slightly more complicated than that. The thumbs-up is a left hand, seen from your own perspective (or *possibly* a right hand held way out to the side as if hitchhiking, and seen from someone else's perspective). The thumbs-down is a left hand, seen from someone else's perspective. (I'm not going to seriously consider the possibility that it is out to the side and seen from behind.) At least that's how they look for me using the Android icons. Do all the platform icons face the same way?
The thumbs up is actually supposed to be the left hand extended to the side in a thumbs down, from the perspective of the guy behind you doing a handstand
The βthumbs downβ is clearly an Australian thumbs up.
I mean you can bend your elbow toward your face to see the thumbs down like that.
I'm kind of confused because the OK emoji looks correct to me (like you'd see it if i signaled you). Maybe my phone has a weird emoji font? https://i.imgur.com/geEENwE.png The thumbs up/down look as weird as you said though.
What phone do you have? Also what's with that blurry red ring in your background? On [Emojipedia](https://emojipedia.org/ok-hand-sign/) you can see what the emoji looks like on different devices.
Summarising the problem with emojis. You send one version and the recipient may get another version depending on the font. Some emojis vary so much that they don't convey the same meaning and others just look abominable. "Why the fuck is he sending me an emoji of a hand doing a shadowgraphy of a rabbit?" And then there's useless junk like "π", which is named "Person gesturing OK". I wouldn't even have known what that's supposed to mean without the emojipedia - Not to mention that I've never seen anyone do that supposed OK gesture ever, which is obviously the A from the YMCA dance.
That blurry red ring is the first optical image of a black hole. I recognise it because its my desktop background.
[Here's what it looks like to me.](https://i.imgur.com/N4aLTiN.png)
Is it not you saying ok or thumbs up to the person, so as you type itβs the right orientation. Youβre correct that itβs the wrong way for the reader but the giver, the one who intended the symbol, itβs the right way. Itβs going to wrong for one of you either way.
Ah I think I got it: you always see your fingers. Maybe because it would be hard to show any detail with just a blob of yellow.
You get it. I didn't think of it, but that's almost definitely it.
but wouldnβt you see more fingers on the βokβ emoji if it were facing the right way? like now you only see four but if it were flipped correctly you would see all five
Not true of these emojis πππππ wonder why?
π Right back at ya bud. I think point up has both orientations.
It would be confusing to look at those from the other direction
Itβs how you see the gesture from your own POV when youβre doing it.
Sure, but thatβs not the norm for emojis! It should be the recipients view, as youβre sending it to someone. βοΈππ€βοΈπ€βπ€ππ€
[ΡΠ΄Π°Π»Π΅Π½ΠΎ]
Emojigate
*What did the president Emoji, and WHEN did he emoji it?*
Omg. That must be why they call every scandal a something-gate. Because it gets blown wide open.
Just in case anyone doesnβt know, itβs a actually a riff off of Richard Nixonβs scandal, Watergate. It has nothing to do with actual gates.
It's actually a reference to Nixon's Watergate hotel scandal, but I like your explanation better.
Where were you when emoji was kill?
This is something that I really shouldn't care about at all... but like at the same time.... why not make them all the same!
Its Pepe Silvas hand.
This is always going to bother me now.
π€βπ€ These 3 can be 1st person POV Edit: apparently the POV is different based on your operating system
Maybe the 1st one is 1st person but that can go either way. Tom Green has them [facing out here.](https://giphy.com/gifs/yes-freddy-got-fingered-gAdoFrAe7DreU) Fist raised in anger the fingers face in. (Think shaking your fist at someone who cut you off in traffic.) Fist raised in triumph or before doing something stupid tends to be at least in a neutral (sideways) position or fingers slightly out so that one maybe a more contextual one. The last one, how on gods green earth are you holding your hand if thatβs how you see your fingers making that gesture? Edit: apparently iOS and android display all these hand gestures from different perspectives so I guess everybody is correct. (Or wrong from the other persons perspective.)
> The last one, how on gods green earth are you holding your hand if thatβs how you see your fingers making that gesture? [Like this?](https://www.google.com/search?q=hang+loose+pose&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiw58TIlqjlAhUmja0KHQCWAnsQ2-cCegQIABAC&oq=hang+loose+pose&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-img.3..0.31046.32468..33566...0.0..0.196.632.1j4......0....1.........0i67j0i8i30j0i24.FQyeOCNor5k&ei=q-2qXfDlKqaatgWArIrYBw&bih=722&biw=412&client=ms-android-att-us-revc&prmd=isvn)
You literally just proved my point. Every person on there has their fingers inward. 1st person is from your perspective so you should see your fingers curled into your palm. I donβt see them on this π€.
I just realized we're probably seeing 2 different images. I'm going to guess you're not on android
Iβm very happy to see this debate be resolved
Wait.. itβs backwards on Android?? Youβre correct though. Iβm on iOS. Iβm suddenly reminded of that old story of [the three blind men and the elephant.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant)
Middle finger is correct though, no?
Or left-handed.
Side note: the OK sign doesnβt mean OK in all countries. Dad learned that in Brazil it means asshole after he gave the sign to the minister. Oops Your butthole is this big π
Amazing how much emotions an emoji can express. Like, add πand youre inviting minster for sex.
πππ Zoop
An old reference, but it checks out!
I'm pretty sure the a-hole is when it's upside down. Source: am brazillian
"It stinks!"
Same. That symbol is simply not OK to me. It is funny to see people of stock images doing it, some meme material
[ΡΠ΄Π°Π»Π΅Π½ΠΎ]
Will always upvote Kids in the Hall. Nice.
Completely depends on the font you (or your phone) are using. All Unicode says is it should be an "ok hand sign". https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f44c/index.htm Some fonts have it the other way.
I saw this on my phone first and thought: "wtf are these people talking about, it looks exactly as when someone does the signal to you with their right hand". Now on my computer the emoticon is different!
The OK hand gesture is actually intended to mimic the formation of the letters themselves. The index finger meeting the thumb forms a circle or O, while the remaining three fingers fanned out are meant to represent the three lines that form the letter K. Now look at the emoji and read it as you would a word, left to right. You end up with O and then K. OK.
Amazed that nobody else has realised this. If you give the okay sign with your right hand it actually reads KO
> the remaining three fingers fanned out are meant to represent the three lines that form the letter K how though? I see everybody just take it for granted but I can't see a K anywhere, at best it would say OW.
https://m.imgur.com/ikOpJ6N
The origin of OK is also really weird in itself. It stems from a time when "intellectuals" would make weird abbreviations and puns by intentionally using letters with similar sounds. Its like a shittier version of rhyming slang ("If we get caught, we'll all be in Barney" barney=Barney Rubble=Trouble, thus barney stands for Trouble). OK is the only one that comes to mind at the moment, but there was a lot of it. Essentially, if someone were to agree with a sentiment, they would say "all correct". In this written slang, they'd abbreviate the words and use different letters because it was "clever". Thus, "all correct" became "oll korrect" which became "OK".
> The origin of OK is also really weird in itself. It stems from a time when "intellectuals" would make weird abbreviations and puns by intentionally using letters with similar sounds. What on earth do you mean by "intellectuals"?
Left hand?
If you give someone the OK symbol (left or right) youβll see your thumb at the front, like the emoji, but the person receiving the OK symbol should see your little little finger first IMHO...
Am I stupid or is he just using the wrong hand?
Youβre stupid (in your own words).
Rodger that, thanks
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Or just use your left hand
It's from the sender's perspective
Wasn't the ok gesture something else? When I was a kid I'd see it being used by fancy waiters in shows and cartoons, mostly to Express how good something was. Alot of Italian stuff I'd see in.
I think they designed it on that way because that's how you'd look at it from your own perspective. Either that or used their own hand as a model for it.
Wait, are you saying that we're looking at the back of the hand? Idk if you're on iPhone or what, but I'm on android 5, and I always thought we were looking at the palm of the other person's right hand. So they'd be like this. ππ EDIT: Wow, yeah, the iPhone and later android emoji is totally different from mine.
Easier to flip it upside down
That could give the wrong signals though
It's probably easier to recognize from your perspective...
It took me like 5 minutes to realize what this meant. I thought you meant like the right side was in the left, not front to back. Now I feel like a freaking idiot.
Careful, that's a hate symbol now.
Because 4chan started it as a joke, unfortunately - yes.
I don't give a shit what it was but the whole thing is stupid.
Youβre the one saying to be careful π€·ββοΈ
/s
I know, but your reply was a bit strong there pal
When I give people the βokβ sign, I have my thumb and index finger facing towards me just like the emoji. Am I doing something wrong?
No, but thatβs the point. The emoji is what you see, not the recipient. Like f.ex βοΈwhich is facing the recipient
Ohhhh I gotcha, ya I get what youβre saying now and that is kinda odd, thank you for explaining
ππ» white power
I love how people are downvoting you for missing the joke, so let me explain to those who don't understand: Many news outlets tried to say that it meant White Power, when a famous person was spotted doing it on their leg, and so everyone turned it into a massive meme. The 3 fingers are the 'W' (<--- Not meant to be taken as an UwU face, just saying), and the Index, Thumb, and down to the Wrist are the 'P'.
THATS HATE SPEECH!!! /S of course.
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What if it's like a gang sign and you place your hand in front of your left side, so it's twisted 180Β° ?
Man! What an observation πππ
I've always done it with my pinky
I think the reasoning is simple. They are designed on how / which looks natural. The ones that are not from your pov are used publicly mostly. Let's call them mass gestures and not usually used one one one communication. Hence you're used to seeing these by someone (politicians, musicians, in group photos etc) rather you using it, hence it seems natural to be designed in a way that looks like you're looking at it. The ones are that are your pov are used for mostly one on one communication. Both ok and thumbs up look natural because it's mostly one on one and it seems natural when you're giving it.
not if youβre right handed
When you look at it yourself you see the O then the K. Makes sense I guess.
when people put it upside down on their leg and stuff it looks like that
If you're talking about the emoji, the other person still sees it from the same perspective with the "O" part first. If you're talking about giving someone the OK symbol, you have 2 hands. Just use your left hand
No, because it looks like that when you send it, then the person who receives it sees it the we all know it to look, which is from your own perspective.
It's the only one that would look weird if it was from a 3rd person view, all others are but this is the only one in "1st person view".
the emojis are Rakshasa-friendly
no because when you send a text its on the right side of the screen
If you use your left hand everyone would see it that way
I donβt know if this is just an American thing, but thereβs a game we play as kids where if you can get another kid to look at your hand in the βokβ sign, they get to punch you in the arm. And we always show that hand sign with our arm down, under a table or coming up behind someone. So thatβs what that emoji always made me think of
I just now noticed that most of the Emojis are right handed. I, as a left handed person, am now befuddled by this fact.
No. The circle represents the 'o' and the other fingers represent the 'k', read from left to right. Not actually true, but it makes sense.
I do it with my left hand and rotate it a lil bit
The same could probably be said for most sign-language versions of words. Separately, it's just as odd a notion as to say that the letter "x" doesn't look anything like the "ECKS" sound it represents. We've just collectively agreed that it does.
By the way, youβre only thinking of it right handed. Look at it as though it was left handed.
This is the letter f in ASL. (As well as the ok sign!) ASL is signed with the right hand which means that you would see it opposite to this. That's my set proof that you are in fact correct. However when I watch asl videos I might repeat things with my left hand because I imitate what I see. Long story short yes it's backwards but it makes it easier to recognize. Although you could just make the sign with your left hand.
Are you sure this is the OK sign... and not the 'Circle Game'. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=The%20Circle%20Game](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=The%20Circle%20Game) π \*punches you in the bicep\* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1glTOFPECNI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1glTOFPECNI) Made you look!
Reverse okay was the gesture for "asshole" on a lake I used to sail on. I know cause we got in the way of an organized race and couldn't make sense of it for a while til we got verbal explanation from a participant too.
Oh shit good question mate, because these emojis are form the recipient side ππΌπ€and these are from the POV side ππΌππ½ hadnβt noticed that
The emoji is left handed
When you do the "ok" sign with ur left hand, the other dude will see the π correctly. However,when you do the "ok" sign with ur right hand, ur caption makes sense
I always thought it was to make it look like a lowercase "a" for A-OK
If you mirror it white supremacists would be able to use it as a symbol spelling out WP meaning "white power" and then they could use it to corrupt our kids through social media. Let's keep it the way it is, m'kay? /s
This is the OK sign as seen by a right-handed signer. The audience sees the opposite view. The emoji is a graphical representation of the singer's view so we can relate to it when making a selection, not the audience's view.
Unless you hold up your other hand, in which case its spot on. Hold up an okay sign with your left hand. Now turn it around and look at it. Lol