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I thought it was a better meme personally when Malcolm in the middle made it so everyone would do the ok sign below their waist and if you looked, you got a pun
by grawprog 6y ago
I thought it was a better meme personally when Malcolm in the middle made it so everyone would do the ok sign below their waist and if you looked, you got a punch in the shoulder.
That definitely went on for a couple years when I was a kid, to the point where everyone got really sick of those few people that didn't get when it stopped being funny.
That's the thing though, all it takes is one meme to take off to change the meaning of a symbol and you can't really predict what or how.
- js2 6y ago> do the ok sign below their waist and if you looked, you got a punch in the shoulder This was going around my college friends in the early 90s, predating Malcom in the Middle (2000-2006). I have no idea where it originated.
- grawprog 6y agoI never knew, I know that's what popularized it for kids around my school around grade 5 or 6. Now I'm curious where that actually came from.
- egberts 6y agoIt was popularized in 1976 in Ste. Saint Marie, Michigan as we started doing that in our high school, this circle game. That is, until someone can chime in an earlier date.