Admittedly my info is a couple decades old. When my college friends studying in Australia tried to hitchhike with their thumbs, drivers angrily returned the gesture. They were later informed that it meant "up yours" and that the correct way was to point an index finger toward where they wanted to go. Maybe years of Americans visiting have changed this.

Funny thing from an Australian friend who moved to Seattle where I live - we used to have a restaurant called Dag's that served "Dag-burgers". She said to her "dags" were little balls of shit clinging to a sheep's fur. She sent home a photo of herself by the sign and her relatives thought it was hysterical.

Only if it’s upside down, above the knee, and not if they put a finger through it without breaking eye contact

How tf did this ever become a thing

Like I know obviously it's just a funny excuse to punch your friend the same way a VW Beetle is but like,

"make a ring with your fingers and hold it near your dick and then call for your friend's attention and then when he gives you attention, proving that he's a good friend that listens to you, laugh at him and then punch him in the kidney"

Does this not seem insane to anyone else, I have to know the etymology of this but I don't know how to look it up

My understanding of the event:

• 4chan jokes they should pretend the okay hand sign is a white supremacist dog whistle to trigger libs.
• They do and it works.
• Online shitters who's whole personality is "triggering sjw's" pick up on this and perpetuate the joke to continue to trigger people.

Basically people getting mad at a joke caused it to become a real thing to some degree. While not a supremacist symbol it was heavily used by them for a time.

Uh, no. The ‘devil horn’ sign, aka heavy metal salute DOES mean that. Thumbs up is just ‘thumbs up’ (it’s an imported/borrowed sign, as far as ai know)

No it's 3