The hand gesture in question is a pinching motion using the index and thumb finger, which had been used as a symbol in the now-defunct Megalia, one of Korea’s largest radical feminist online communities, to ridicule the size of Korean men’s genitals.
What happened in South Korea in 2015?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/03/south-korea-fertility-rate-misogyny-feminism/673435/
the government stopped putting the chemicals in the water that makes the frogs gay
Gamergate idiology hit hard there. There’s recently been some conspiracy nonsense about a hand gesture in games there.
par for the course: https://www.npr.org/2019/09/26/764728163/the-ok-hand-gesture-is-now-listed-as-a-symbol-of-hate
Uhhh, it’s a little bit different.
Yes, it is different.