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

[Floopyfloop]

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!

@Floopyfloop DH and I were on holiday recently and DS was at home telling us he wanted photos of us "keeping it lemon" so rather embarrassingly we took a selfie doing the gesture just to please him.

Mine is covering her mouth in every single photo at the moment. I've no idea why. Her friends seem to be doing it too.

I'd be happy if she switched to a pointy finger. At least we'd actually be able to see her face again.

"Wanna chat about flow tell a fella come see me..."

@Floopyfloop I see your daft teenagers doing it and I raise you… my fully grown adult wife doing it!

@wited boy you know I’m magic on the mic. Houdini.

That’s a very smartly (middle aged 😁) dressed teen.

@hoobanoobie my 14yo tells me that rizz means to chat up a girl. I'm just relieved the fish lips thing is no longer in fashion for photos.

What's with the one where they cover their faces too?

Makes a change.

I thought it was compulsory that if you are under 30 and having your photo taken you have to do pouty face if you are female, or stick your tongue out if you are male.

maybe their finger hurts? I would repeatedly ask them if that's the case until they are embarrassed into stopping

Doubt it. All the pics I've seen it in have been DCs mates who all went to church schools.

There's a dad who copies his teen DD's selfies and publishes his own version - he actually has twice as many followers/viewers as his DD does!

Why should only the young be allowed to look cool?

Grease is from before you were born? I think it was 1978 or something like that.

I must be green as a cabbage!

😜

Keep it lemon.... my boys told me the pointing finger was a reference to the chavs/ roadmen? who would point at their Stone island logos in photos.

Teens lost any ability to shock about 40 years ago, it is quite sad really, cant be nice to know that adults dont give a toss about your nonsense any more? A bloke I used to work with said that the last time the PTB or society in general was genuinely outraged/scared by anything teen was the punk thing in `76.

The chav thing was all the rage about 3-4 years ago. My daughter came home very excited with this new word and how some students were identifying as being chavvy or a chav for doing something and thought her new friends were all very hip and trendy …. Then we discussed trends and bullying and I pointed out chav wasn’t a new term it was around in Roman times and I think meant child etc and how often chav is an insult and it stopped swiftly. But yes we have the lemon signs for photos I mean …. Rolly eyes

Just kids being weird I think. Like when you couldn’t turn around in a supermarket without seeing kids absentmindedly doing that weird floss dance 😂

The Stone Roses? That is 30 plus years ago man! Even then they sounded derivative of the California (Byrds etc.) thing in the 70s, great musicians no doubt but still affecting culture now, come on kids, keep it fresh man get your own new vibe FFS! It is shocking to think that Oasis are going to go down as the last "great" (used very loosely) guitar band to come out of the UK, that is the curse of the internet folks, you dont have to make anything new any more because it has all been done bigger and better in the past?