I can’t speak for the modern thing. I understand the gesture as either the beginning of a chef’s kiss or a gesture to hold the attention on what you ar saying.

While contextually it’s not specifically this, I have a selection I use at work thatmay get the point across.

👌when I really only need to ok or confirm my reading of the thing

🤌well said, great post, stuff like that. Occasionally I get to use it sarcastically when someone bungles up and hits send instead of Backspace.

🎉yay, awesome, any sort of celebratory language, like the ok but with enthusiasm

🧡everyone knows what heart means

🦀this is my little secret. I use it randomly on meaningless posts to sow confusion among my workplace. No one knows what it means, no one understands why I use it, but at the same time no one has been willing to ask me. Sometimes I drop it on a message in a particularly dull part of a teams chat and watch people absent mindedly add crabs to a post because they instinctively click it to show engagement. It’s honestly the little rebellions that make the day move along.

This guy permanently looks like he’s having an existential crisis and I can’t help but wonder if it’s because he’s metaphorically the only Jew left in the Nazi bar.

I miss those hand scanners. I used to shoplift ~$50 worth of veg every trip. I wish I could get away with just burning Kroger to the ground, but that was all I could manage at the time.

It’s very much this. They aren’t trying to introduce you to this thing that’s been an institution for longer then any of us have been alive. They’re advertising to take up the limited realestate in our conscious minds.

To really capture the full spirit of it, I think the the closest thing would be a YouTuber asking you to join their Patreon. The point of the Be Kind Rewind slogan was that you putting in a little effort now meant that the video store clerk or the next renter wouldn’t have to do it and could instead do their actual job or just watch the movie in convinence. If everyone did it by default, there would be no need for the slogan and the stickers.

YouTube Patreon plugs hit all those marks. It’s a small inconvenience that you do because it means they can do their actual work in producing media and the next guy can watch content without having the inconvenience of paying for it. If everyone did it by default, they wouldn’t need to mention it in every episode. The only real difference is you’re trading your physical effort for your commodified effort.

I don’t get why posts like this are downvoted, it’s kind of stoned but I get the intention.

I know more than one person that calls it “sodee pops”

Aaawwwwwww! What a cutie! I’d bop that snoot!

Im here in the Midwest and sleet here is anything with a gas station slushy consistency as it’s falling. It’s slush on the ground, but sleet in the air.

My gripe with the first one was that there just wasn’t enough to it. I finished it and I was hoping there was still a reason to play, but everything was done.

Truely the words of an enlightened soul.

The biggest crime in those little eyes is the existence of decorative plants. Im tempted to get some kudzu for enrichment because it’s the only plant that grows as fast as ke can kill it and it’s also good for them.

Being permanently baked would explain why he thinks doing a barrel roll is ever a good idea…

You’re actually spot on! Though having lived with them for so long, I’ve developed a suspicion that, while dumb, they do understand transparency. This guy regularly climbs up the rocks and watches out the clear panneling on the side of the tank without ever trying to walk through it. He does however, ram the front of the tank full force despite it being scuffed enough for him to know it’s there. I’m pretty sure he understands that this is the side that opens when I bring him food and he’s decided he’s just going to get it himself.

Also he comes up to this slot and watches me while I work on the computer. Isn’t even spooked when I peak back.

Being the craft goblin I am, their cobbled container is actually humidity controled by a household humidifier piped in though a fidget tube! I love it, because the cool mist pools on the ground and makes them look like tiny dinos.

Unpresentented Times by Peaky Turts

So it’s actually acrylic, and I scuffed up the bottom edge because turts have a hard time with transparent material. Doesn’t stop Digger though, he knows it’s there and still tries to barge through it.

Honestly a balsamic vinegarette on some thick fries is pretty fucking great.

Sold. We just have to switch to a different pill before that two months is up. Literally 1% better is still better.