That's right pals, 's time for some good old fashned gay panic. This time around we aren't qutng your enjoyment of anal play (no, that do not 'make you gay')...
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ARE YOUR HANDS GAY?
* 4 fingers mean gay *
In 2021, an Urban Dictnary er fed as a silent signal to tell others you're gay and the closet, spirg a trend on TikTok 2022 where ers llect as many imag of people dog the symbol as possible to jokgly fer they're gay. On Augt 22nd, 2021, Urban Dictnary er fed "4 fgers up" as: "puttg 4 fgers up a picture is a way to secretly say your a homosexual and not ready to e out the closet yet, " which was shared by TikToker[5] @popeyichicken on March 16th, 2022, a vio showg the fn followed by a group of boys holdg up the symbol (shown below, left).
Throughout March and April 2022, people began spam-creatg fns for "4 fgers up" on Urban Dictnary, [7] rultg over 30 pag of differg fns for the term by April 19th, many suggtg the symbol means you're gay while others suggt means a love for somethg else edic (exampl shown below). Meanwhile, among the male tws, the bisexual or gay brothers had more "male-typil" hands than the straight on—ntrary to what the rearchers expected—although the difference was not signifint.
"Rearch suggts that our sexualy is termed the womb and is pennt on the amount of male hormone we are exposed to or the way our dividual bodi react to that hormone, wh those exposed to higher levels of ttosterone beg more likely to be bisexual or homosexual, " the thors wrote. However, is important to strs, that the evince is currently not strong enough to accurately predict whether someone is gay, straight or bisexual by lookg at the rat between their fgers. "Some work has shown that gay men have more "male-typil" rats than straight men; other work has shown the oppose pattern; and still further work has shown no difference at all.