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[places hand below waist with upside down 'OK' symbol]

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The Chicago Cubs have identified a fan who made a hand gesture on television that many associate with white supremacy, the team said Wednesday evening, and have notified him that he’s no longer allowed at Wrigley Field.

When I went to school, if we got someone to look at it, we got to hit them in the shoulder. It was a game amongst friends.

My favorite technique was to bend over and pretend to pick something up, and would say "is this yours?" Worked every time.

I had no idea that was something else. I laughed when I saw the pic. I thought he gets to slug so many ppl now. *sigh*
 
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The Chicago Cubs have identified a fan who made a hand gesture on television that many associate with white supremacy, the team said Wednesday evening, and have notified him that he’s no longer allowed at Wrigley Field.

When I went to school, if we got someone to look at it, we got to hit them in the shoulder. It was a game amongst friends.

The circle game. We didn't have a name for it but pretty much everybody played it. The fact that like 6 people in the world are aware of some loose connection to white supremacist crap, so now it's an overtly racist thing, is completely wild.
 
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The circle game. We didn't have a name for it but pretty much everybody played it. The fact that like 6 people in the world are aware of some loose connection to white supremacist crap, so now it's an overtly racist thing is completely wild.
I'll randomly do it to ppl in public and some laugh b/c they get it (i've not lived in my hometown since HS), now I guess that's over.

I've never heard a name for it either.

Rules I remember.

Can't be above shoulders
If the receiver can poke the circle and break the fingers, it reverses it.
Later was the hold hand up near eyebrow (like a salute) prior to looking at it and that was a "mirror", which also reversed it.
 
The circle game. We didn't have a name for it but pretty much everybody played it. The fact that like 6 people in the world are aware of some loose connection to white supremacist crap, so now it's an overtly racist thing is completely wild.
We called it "Asshole" if you looked, they get to punch you. If you stick your finger through it without looking, you got to punch them.
 
Turns out, according to dictionary dot com, it's called the circle game.

The Circle Game is an activity where one person makes a “circle” with their fingers and holds it below their waist, convincing a second person to look at it. If the second person looks, they receive a punch to the shoulder.



Playable anywhere, the Circle Game is initiated when one person makes a circle with their forefinger and thumb, resembling the OK gesture, and holds it below waist-level. If someone else makes eye contact with the circle, then the “circler” gets to punch them in the arm. Players especially enjoy the gamein inappropriate situations, sometimes setting elaborate or creative traps for their target.

In one common variation of the Circle Game, if the target person breaks the circle with their finger, they get to punch the “circler” instead.

The origins of the Circle Game are disputed. People anecdotally recall playing the game in the schoolyard in the 1970–80s. Vice traced the game to one, Matthew Nelson, who claims credit for inventing it in New Bremen, Ohio in the early 1980s—though there’s no proof he either created or named the game. The TV show Malcolm in the Middle, which featured the game, helped popularize the Circle Game in the 2000s.

In the 2010s, references to the Circle Game have grown in popularity, often as an online meme, marking a new digital era of the schoolyard game. Its contemporary usage may be driven by millennial nostalgia (or an effort to capitalize on it) or simply by the possibilities the internet has opened up for the game.

Pictures of people making the circle with their hand, particularly as a way to photobomb an otherwise serious photograph, are often accompanied by the phrase got ‘em or simply gotem, meaning that the circling hand has “got” whoever is looking at it. Not surprisingly, the popularity of the Circle Gameand “got ‘em” has been commercialized to sell t-shirts and coffee mugs.

 
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