The Circle Game Hand Gesture

According to a redacted memorandum addressed to williams three cadets making the ok hand gesture were positively identified it continues by explaining the circle game is an internationally.

The circle game hand gesture. In 2017 the okay hand gesture acquired a new and different significance thanks to a hoax by members of the website 4chan to falsely promote the gesture as a hate symbol claiming that the gesture represented the letters wp for white power the okay gesture hoax was merely the latest in a series of similar 4chan hoaxes using various innocuous symbols. Naval and military academies said cadets and midshipmen who flashed hand gestures at a recent football game were playing the circle game not. The report explains the circle game is an internationally recognized game in which people attempt to trick someone else into looking at an okay like hand gesture below the waist the cadets say. The premise of the game is that a person makes a circle with their pointer finger and thumb below their waist the investigator wrote.

Since the 1970s the ok gesture has been the key feature of the popular school prank the circle game. 15 2019 touching the thumb and index finger to make a circle with the remaining three fingers held outstretched is a gesture that people around the world have made for centuries mostly in. Another is the hand sign of the three percenter movement a wing of the anti government extremist militia movement. If someone looks at the circle they lose and the person.

Investigators at the u s. In each case the. If the person looks at it the maker of the gesture punches the opponent in the arm. A person initiating the game makes the gesture palm inward below their own waistline and tries to trick an opponent into looking at it.