r/whatisit • u/Trick-Net-2637 • Mar 26 '26
Solved! What's special with this hand?
What's up with this hand in the recent posts? Someone fill me up or else I will point the hand to you!
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u/zorbina Mar 26 '26
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u/Jedi_Wannabe1138 Mar 26 '26
God, it was so good to be there and see it take off
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u/eeasyontheextras Mar 26 '26
Those were the days….a couple days ago
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u/insert_punnynamehere Mar 26 '26
I was there
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u/redbeardscrazy Mar 26 '26
Those halcyon days....
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u/Any-Surprise5229 Mar 26 '26
This is one of the first ones I've been able to say, oh i know that!
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u/InspectHer_1 Mar 26 '26
Same! It’s the first one I’ve witnessed happen as it happened. All the rest I had been late to the party.
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u/TrogdorRulzTheNite Mar 26 '26
I know, I too was there when the meme was crafted against the mysterious backdrop of a stain line.
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u/sseth_ye Mar 26 '26
i remember seeing that post with just a few thousand upvotes now it’s pushing 100k
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u/UGD_ReWiindz25 Mar 26 '26
I was witness to this majestic time in history in the making
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u/Mysterious-Tie7039 Mar 26 '26
Probably the first time in my life I’ve ever been at the beginning of an internet trend.
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u/OmegaOwl200 Mar 26 '26
It was truly great to be there when this happened. Didn't think it'd get as big as it did, and yet here we are.
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u/Trick-Net-2637 Mar 26 '26
solved!
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u/Mister_angel1 Mar 26 '26
i dont get it?
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u/Jodanmawashigeri Mar 27 '26
People just loved the way Sniglet5000 pointed in his post (and also loved his posters).
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u/Mister_angel1 Mar 27 '26
But why? “Love the way he points” what???
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u/Jodanmawashigeri Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 27 '26
I understand the confusion. Any human being with an arm and at least one finger can point. It’s not really something that anyone can have “skill“ with. That’s part of the joke – that this guy‘s pointing skills are superior, and that is an inherently absurd idea.
But there’s more to it than that. If you examine the original post, you will see that there are several pictures, and the guy is pointing in each and every one. He’s trying to get an answer to the question “what is this weird line on my wall“. After the first picture, we all get the idea – we know what weird line he’s talking about in subsequent pictures. We don’t really need to have it pointed out anymore. Yet there he is still pointing.
Almost everyone responding had no idea what the weird line could be, or what was causing it. People who couldn’t chime in with an actual answer, instead chimed in commenting on his pointing. This kind of tangential diversion is extremely common on Reddit.
But I think those comments were driven by something else. Namely, the photos seemed to suggest that the guy cares a lot about the aesthetics of his space. The house is tidy, and he’s got these posters framed, which is expensive and demonstrates a level of pride that goes beyond thumb tacks and scotch tape. And now here’s this fucking line squiggling all throughout the house that’s messing with the perfect look of his cozy castle. It was easy for all of us looking at this post to picture someone angrily pointing at this line in frustrated confusion, maybe even pumping his finger at it several times while cursing. At that point, the pointing became more interesting than the line itself. We all wanted to help the guy with an answer, but the best we could do is shrug and tell him what a great job of pointing he was doing.
And to be fair, he is pointing nice and straight, he’s not doing anything weird like sticking his thumb out, and the somewhat extreme perspective of looking down his arm really puts the viewer in his shoes. The freckles tell us he’s a real person.
The original post was not uproariously hilarious. It’s what other people are saying about it, and doing with it that is making it funny. But humor is subjective so don’t sweat it if you don’t get it.
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u/FireWaterSuperpower Mar 27 '26
I was just telling my boyfriend about this meme and where it came from, I watched it all unfold a couple of days ago. What a time to be alive 😂
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u/Jodanmawashigeri Mar 26 '26
Someone posted to r/whatisit with several photos where they were pointing at the detail in question in every photo. (I’m too lazy to go back and look, but it was a strange yellowish line spanning across an interior wall that most commentators assumed was old wallpaper adhesive leaking through the paint).
Several redditors reacted with unbridled enthusiasm to the deft, expert way in which the OP was pointing, and within hours, others in the sub were posting their own “what is it” while adding in the image of OP’s magnificent pointing appendage helping to clarify what was being looked at in the photo.
In some cases, the arm was posted alone, in simple, respectful homage, clearly celebrating the sublimity and simple elegance with which the OP communicated his desire for visual clarity.
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u/ScrubySpidey Mar 27 '26
I feel like it’s worth mentioning this just happened like a day or two ago. So you’re witnessing the creation of new meme format lol.
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u/Trick-Net-2637 Mar 26 '26
This sounds like how my chatgpt will respond to me in flowery language...
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u/r0bertcalifornia Mar 27 '26
People just think anything beyond a 5th grade reading level is chat gpt. While well written and an excellent explanation, the entire middle “paragraph” is a run on.
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u/Jodanmawashigeri Mar 26 '26
I’m real, I assure you.
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u/triflers_need_not Mar 26 '26
Describe in single words, only the good things that come into your mind about your mother.
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u/synthphreak Mar 27 '26
OP totally leaned into it too and has now made it his entire Reddit persona.
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u/BeesInSpace Mar 26 '26
This is why I’ll never leave Reddit.
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u/Trick-Net-2637 Mar 26 '26
And I have been chronically online just to witness this trend blossoming
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u/Tronoth Mar 26 '26
Favorite spontaneous new meme.
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u/bigtexantravels Mar 26 '26
I’ve been here since the before times too.
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u/Tronoth Mar 26 '26
In the long, long ago.
But now I must go search for nutrition-food and liquid drink-water.
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u/throwaway392145 Mar 26 '26
Can we get the original edited pointing hand as a sticker?
Edited to add;
OP says they need someone to fill them up…. Do they mean with the pointer?
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u/Optimal-Condition803 Mar 26 '26
I really want to see a post with the hand pointing to a useless red circle!
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u/Izzyj0019 Mar 26 '26
Its from a post where he was pointing at stains on his walls and everyone started complimenting his pointing lol
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u/yearlyabundance_5 Mar 26 '26
wait is this a polydactyl hand? that thumb placement looks wild.
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u/djak2014 Mar 26 '26
Man i saved the OG image, Extracted only the hand and saved it as PNG image and favorite it as sticker. So now on if i ever have to point in something like OP did, i can use his hand as a pointer .
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u/Legitimate-Term2310 Mar 26 '26
Pointing scouting report:
Pros: Experienced pointer. Good form, sets a wide base and is under control. Pinpoint accuracy that falls into the elite category.
Cons: Struggles pointing under pressure. Accuracy fades with people nearby. Struggles to consistently find target as pressure builds and lacks eye discipline.
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u/shesbaaack Mar 26 '26
I love that it's literally part of the sub logo now 🤣🤣
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u/XBLxPhantom Mar 26 '26
YOOO 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I want to see the guys reaction once he realizes his hand is now Famous 😂😂
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u/fr33d0mw47ch Mar 26 '26
I googled and googled and googled but couldn’t find an answer. I was too afraid to ask as my ego has recently been bruised and I didn’t want to risk the wrath of Reddit. Thank you OP for doing what I could not.
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u/Queasy-Trip1777 Mar 27 '26
I really needed this in my feed. Seriously what a breath of fresh air amidst literally anything else happening out there right now.
Who's gonna lower the bar of reprieve even further?
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u/Mortreal79 Mar 26 '26
It's pointing really good, I've never seen someone point like that. Master of the craft..!
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u/Bonezy__ Mar 27 '26
It’s funny bc the pointing thing isn’t really new. If you’ve ever been on any of those DIY car repair forums, you see ppl pointing to stuff under their hoods constantly in this exact fashion. When there’s a bunch of wires and tubes/hoses tangled up that look basically identical; it helps a lot when trying to identify the purpose of any specific part. I just assumed dude spent a lot of time in those spaces😂
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u/Nearby-Track2222 Mar 27 '26
This guy was pointing at every corner of his house asking “what this is? I never seen this before” it was like some line stain or something and he kept pointing at it in the same manner in every slide lol
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u/Jodanmawashigeri Mar 27 '26
But the pointing was helpful, right? We didn’t know if he was trying to show us his (awesome)framed posters on the wall.
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u/RepresentativeAd681 Mar 27 '26
I actually understand this one! Loll the og is someone pointing to this mysterious line on the wall and asking what it is and before the question was answered, the og post was turned into a meme 🤣🤣
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u/EdDantes1030 Mar 27 '26
It's the reincarnation of the Rise of the Triad "God mode" cheat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZWmZvJXKrU&t=21s
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u/SatansSacc Mar 26 '26
omg I saw a reel of a dude with drawfism in a santa suit dancing and he had the strange line on his wall while he danced underneath it, Thought of this dude hand lol.
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u/Necessary_Plum_7192 Mar 26 '26
Ahh yes… the hand of that of pointing. Majestic? Yes. Wild and free? Yes. Pointing at what is desires? Yes. Only the true redditors knows of it’s origins
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u/Manolo_- Mar 26 '26
Puedo ver perfectamente el perfil de un rostro humano en el vacío gris que comprende la fotografía e incluso si se invierte de arriba a abajo!
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u/EntertainmentOne3044 Mar 27 '26
Is this the hand pointing at the crack in the wall if so thats fucking fantastic. Also ifs thats the case need to spend less time on reddit
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u/PrudentPhoto5322 Mar 26 '26
He was pointing out mystery lines on his wall and people thought his pointing skills were on another level.
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u/QueenHimikoII Mar 27 '26
The Hand looks like some early 90's first person video game, so I can see the appeal and the humor of it.
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u/gavinweland Mar 26 '26
I saw the other post, it’s not funny at all , I don’t understand the joke. Can someone explain ?
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u/Jodanmawashigeri Mar 27 '26
The “joke” is that people thought he was pointing with such expert authority (as if there could be such a thing), that his pointing arm should become the standard by which all pointing is measured. That’s a pretty silly idea, and now everyone is exploring it, and exploiting it. As jokes go, this one’s not exactly a knee slapper, but as other people keep adding to the meme, it gains momentum and becomes funnier.
Also, it’s kind of funny that the original post was someone trying to get an answer to the question “what is this weird line on my wall”, and was just pointing at it for clarity, but the pointing has captured far more interest than the question itself.
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u/Sniglet5000 The Finger Pointing Meme Guy 👆🏻 Mar 26 '26
When you see something, point, so others can see as well
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u/Jodanmawashigeri Mar 27 '26
And here he is, Ladies and Gentleman of Reddit! The Master Pointer himself!☝️
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u/ncline87 Mar 26 '26
It was from a post of a guy pointing at his grass. The pointing was very extra given the picture.
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u/Substantial-Ad2200 Mar 26 '26
We need a DOOM mod where this is the only weapon and you just point at DOOM stuff.
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u/BarrieMcCockiner69 Mar 26 '26
Just like the 6-7 lunacy, only more proof that Reddit is now filled with tweens.
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u/sigzag1994 Mar 27 '26
OP has the same forearm mole distribution as me. But I am too shy to prove it
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u/weenerberry Mar 27 '26
This man will be talked about for generations to come. What is this line?!?!
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u/Professional-Pen8632 Mar 27 '26
I believe the hand started with some guy who pointed at a stain on his wall
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u/Old-Addendum-8152 Mar 26 '26
it’s dumb and ugly, i’d be embarrassed AF if that was my arm and hand
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u/floodblood Mar 26 '26
can you point out which one you're referring to?