Cascading Pointing Hand Emoji Copypasta

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Cascading Pointing Hand Emoji Copypasta is a series of emoji all pointing at a single word. This is done to both ironically and sincerely to express make a specific point. The format follows the following template:

👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿
👉🏿👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👈🏿
👉🏿👉🏾👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👈🏾👈🏿
👉🏿👉🏾👉🏽👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👈🏽👈🏾👈🏿
👉🏿👉🏾👉🏽👉🏼👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👈🏼👈🏽👈🏾👈🏿
👉🏿👉🏾👉🏽👉🏼👉🏻[X]👈🏻👈🏼👈🏽👈🏾👈🏿
👉🏿👉🏾👉🏽👉🏼👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👈🏼👈🏽👈🏾👈🏿
👉🏿👉🏾👉🏽👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👈🏽👈🏾👈🏿
👉🏿👉🏾👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👈🏾👈🏿
👉🏿👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾👈🏿

Origin

The earliest known variation of the meme was tweeted^[1] by user @lalydelisi on August 10th, 2015 (shown below, left).

However, this particular version of the design did not have the cascading effect, which would be introduced on November 12th, 2019 by Twitter^[2] user @lukmanajaaa (shown below, right).

Spread

The following day, Twitter^[3] user @fatlukaku posted the meme with a person raising their hand emoji prefaced by the caption, "Who is the 🤡?" The post received more than 4,500 likes and 3,500 retweets in less than two days (shown below, left).

Hours later, Twitter^[4] user @niAliaalah used the format with the question "Who's single?" The post received more than 15,000 likes and 10,000 retweets in less than two days (shown below, center).

Over the next 24 hours, people online began adding new centerpieces to the format, referencing other jokes and memes. For example, on November 14th, Twitter^[5] user @parttimewinner tweeted a variation that uses the Eating Beans meme. The post received more than 15,000 likes and 2,200 retweets in 24 hours (shown below, right).

Various Examples

Search Interest

Not Available.

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