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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…

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

The amount of people that dont know about shakas is killing me. No culture

Thank you kind stranger

I share a first name with a pretty popular fictional character. I tend to enjoy the attention when people don’t believe me or ask if it’s like that one show/book. Fun stuff I gotta say. (thank fuck it’s not a real person that could become racist/transphobic/worse)