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I knew it meant "hang loose", but I've never heard the term.
Known it as hang loose since the 80’s from Hawaii
Since the 80s in Oklahoma for me. My dad's generation came up with this. Thought it was common knowledge.
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
Get off your high horse lol. It's literally called the call me hand in the official Unicode emoji specs. Not everything has to relate to the USA, friend.
That said, feel free to interpret it as the shaka with your friends. No need to foist that on the rest of us.
Bold of you to assume I live in the USA. Consider that this is a very well known symbol in more island nations than just Hawaii. Unicode is allowed name things wrong and they very often do. It's ultimately the proposal to the Unicode consortium that names the emoji.
Take it to mean whatever you want but saying that shakas is a purely US thing is insulting to it. Think about how long the telephone has existed in comparison to islanders...
Way way more people use the Shaka to mean Shaka as opposed to call me. If you use that symbol to mean call me, I can’t really help you, but I’ve never actually seen that in real life after like 1995.
Unicode naming can be wrong (and it is here) and that’s ok.