Does anyone know why teens keep making this gesture in photos?

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I run a youth group and we have noticed for the last few weeks that every photo we take ends up with half the group making odd pointy fingers gestures! I have also seen it on other photos so it’s not just some thing my lot are doing!

is there anyone out there who is down with the kids who can tell me what in the sweet baby Jesus they are doing!

Random photo for reference!
Are they being rude?
Have they joined a cult?
Are they just being weird!

@DrinkingMyWaterMindingMyBiz haha really! Are you a South London gal then?

Oh yes. My dad had that. They had this sort of code going on. Breaker? And different numbers meant different things. And they all had weird user names.
Ha. So says IncompleteSenten 😂

His was white knight or something. I once played with it while he was at work and got told off by a very grumpy 'old' (in the eyes of teenage me) man.

I don't think even they know why they're doing it either tbh. It's like a Bruh thing.

@blackfluffycat mid forties. Why?

Sometimes I get really down and feel like the human race is kinda awful and there's little hope for the future. And then I read about teenagers doing a daft pointy finger and telling each other to "keep it lemon" and the bonkers hilarity of that somehow restores my faith in humanity a little.

It just makes me think that they've just harvested an impressive bogey and are desperate to show it off to the world - as we see with this little lad here.

Do teens still refer to things that they believe to be 'cool' as 'book' - i.e. the alternative word that ancient Nokia mobile phones offered as an option before the one they intended?

Or is that, like, sooooooo old now?

Don’t know, but a few kids in the school I volunteer in have taken to saying “that’s sooooo Nokia!” for something old fashioned.

My 11 year old came out with some nonsense the other day. I tried to quote it back the following day by gesturing like I had a hat on and saying "Capping on the bus".
She walked away from me with her hands over her face. Apparently it's something about "no cap" and "bussin".
The next one was "rizz". My first thought being Rizzo from Grease.
I am 34. I thought myself too young to be baffled by this rubbish yet. FML.

Well, Google showed me all the kiddos keepin' it lemon, but it also showed me this 😆

Charva! That was geordie slang in the 80s and 90s! Predates the popular use of chav by about a decade I think.

"keep it lemon charvas" could be straight out of Nathan Barley 😂

Teens are bloody funny- 19 years ago 15 year old son had all this shit off to a tee- and I was going nuts about finding nitrous oxide canisters in his drawer-.this week he's requested a Peter storm jacket with hood as part of Xmas present and is looking at an M&S Xmas food catalogue - life moves on!!

That should say 10 years ago- he's only 25

@VintageBlossomHill I just wondered how you had never come across that gesture before?

Isis used to do this.

I'll stick with the peace sign myself 😂

I asked my young adult son and he told me it all started from a song that south London lads did with the finger thing and he knew about the lemon thing but half the things he was saying went right over my head. It will be a new fad in a few weeks again and we will be none the wiser.

Yeah it's a "lemon" thing...tiktok origin. Kids on a school trip we're doing it so I asked.

darlo finger I was told by year 10 yesterday.

North London and maybe 5-10 years older than you, but I guess London slang is pretty similar in all four corners. “1arda” used to be shortened to just “1” when saying bye - do you remember that too? People would post with the 1arda finger for their MSN and MySpace profile pics, but just say “aite, 1” with a little spud when leaving friends IRL.

My DS l18) tells me it's "keeping it lemon" He says his friends do it ironically as they are mocking a certain type of person ( I think he means the "road man" types who wear the puffy jackets and carry the little drug dealer bags)

I had a CB radio and my handle was Beetlejuice!

I did ask my lot but they said it meant “Keep it level” and that yielded no google results!
It may be my hearing because I’m old!

I know the type of people. Ironically we were in Paris when the photos were taken so there was a distinct lack of road men to mock with their pointy fingers!’