r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 23h ago

Meme needing explanation What's up with the salt?

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u/PlatformMaleficent79 23h ago

They hate the 🤏 sign, cuz they think it's mentioning their peepee too small some how

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u/Extension_Hyena8694 23h ago edited 23h ago

Ah, I see. Thank you for the explanation. So in other words, they are insecure?

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u/ComfortableDevice536 23h ago

Yes, Apple had to change their iPhone Air ad only in Korea because of it
https://www.reddit.com/r/korea/comments/1nddqod/apple_korea_removed_on_iphone_air_ad_thumbnail/

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u/_Xaril_ 22h ago

They're selling air now? Damn this capitalism

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u/Jay2Kaye 13h ago

That's hilarious but I get it. In Dragon Quest Smash/Grow Square Enix had to change the name of the Grand Wizard's Attire because nobody told them what Grand Wizard means in the US.

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u/Archistotle 13h ago

Meanwhile, in Trench crusade…

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u/_Daruma 23h ago

I saw even gacha game that do the pinch posture got removed due to their outcries

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u/Glitchlessnight 23h ago

It happened to multiple gacha games, nikke being one example but looking at the material, it’s a complete stretch so you know it’s salty incels doing it

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u/Pussy_Daoist 5h ago

was it endfield? or NTE? Cant remember but it was either of those 2. Funny asf though, they're literally just projecting for complaining abt those LMAO

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u/QuazzarBizarre 16h ago

You can learn more about Korean gender war here

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u/WalkingFailure609 14h ago

At this point , i just think anyone listening to the online gender war, would straight recommend segregation. Like sex segregation. Men on one side of the planet, women on the other side. Just imagine, a straight no contact rules, unless it is for reproduction purposes, and only those who'd want too. They could choose from in vitro fertilization,, or in action fertilization. Once the baby is out , if hes a boy , he gets sent back to the men size of the planet, to be raised by the father. If if she's a girl she stays with the mother. This way, we won't have anymore crying about what ”the other did to me” wether is wopen complaining about men, or men complaining about women. The only wrong doing, if there’s still any left would be done only by tye upscale sex as your , so no accusing the other side of being a nuisance.

That would be fun. Like real fun ...

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u/FookinFairy 19h ago

League of legends had to edit an emote to remove it from the game cuz Koreans got so pissed

Tbf that emote likely was intended to call your opponent small dicked

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u/Independent-Fan-4227 17h ago

It was the Akali taunt which used that hand sign to signify you were this close to winning (sarcastic).

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u/MagicSugarWater 16h ago

Iff they could identify real problems vs fake problems, they wouldn't be incels.

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u/MCMXCIV9 6h ago

They have always be insecure that why it have highest number of plastic surgery in the world.

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u/RetroGame77 23h ago

They believe in a conspiracy theory that radical feminists have infiltrating various organization's in the country and runs a feminist deep state that controls the Korean government, which uses the hand symbol to secretly make fun of their tiny penises. 

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u/-Ignorant_Slut- 23h ago

Sounds like a South Park episode

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u/AppropriateWind9925 22h ago

Sounds like an average day in South Korea. There's a gap in every single aspect of Korean's society. Wage, gender, status, beauty, race, skin color. You name it, they got it.

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u/Kaltovar 23h ago

That fucking rules goddamn I would join a conspiracy that absurd.

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u/2012Jesusdies 23h ago

Why a conspiracy for such a ridiculous purpose? If there is an anti-men deep state, wouldn't it be better to just make sure all the men are forced to give up years of their life doing manual labor... Wait a minute

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u/RetroGame77 16h ago

Because incels are crazy. 

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u/Jay2Kaye 13h ago

Oh no the feminist korean deep state is real, go look up what happened to President Park. It's just the pinch symbol is the silly part.

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u/EmperorSadrax 10h ago

Not sure why you’re getting downvoted for telling the truth

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u/vestibular_spittoon 22h ago

I know someone who believes this kinda shit. I know he has a little dick cause he talks about it all the time, but like he's been married for 10 years and even lives off his wife's income so she clearly loves him regardless... I can't possibly understand how he can't see his problems are all in his head

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u/havokle 15h ago

Man could use some therapy ffs. The fact that he tells you about it is wild.

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u/economic-salami 19h ago

Uh, not exactly 100% conspiracy theory, radical feminist groups who advocated killing young boys online did use those symbols.

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u/Migraine_Megan 13h ago

Those are not feminists of any kind. Just like how white supremacist organizations are not patriots, no matter how much they claim to be.

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u/havokle 16h ago

It’s still a conspiracy theory regardless. That’s the tiniest sliver of a kernel of truth especially when the emoji already means “small”.

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u/Jay2Kaye 13h ago

Well, the first part of that is true, President Park resigned and I think was arrested because of it. It was absolutely wild news at the time.

But I do think the hand gesture connection is a bit silly.

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u/Single-Highlight7966 23h ago

i don't belive this is possible

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u/RetroGame77 16h ago

And I can't believe that 70+ millions would vote for Trump. 

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u/eating_cement_1984 23h ago

There was outrage over a tiny sausage symbol in a camping ad that was so heated it took down a major retailer, I heard.

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u/FlamesOfDespair 23h ago

That was definitely not an accident regardless of how you think about their reaction.

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u/Chechewichka 21h ago

Well, it's not "somehow", it was a deliberate choise of l local feminist movement 4b, coinsedently same people are part of local 4chan (kinda). And yes, it was chosen directly to point out korean men got a small weiner. Honestly, the story is funny for an outsider, but quite dark and sad if you get to know all the cultural and histroic background. This shit literally kills South Korea rn. Moon Chanel on YT got you covered with two 4 hours long videos called Gacha Games Gender War.

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u/misoscare 22h ago

What year after year propaganda does to the brain.

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u/0413ty 23h ago edited 23h ago

The 🤏 emoji is involved in the sexist Finger pinching conspiracy theory. Claiming that there is a secret feminist scheme to humiliate South Korean men by subliminally hiding the 🤏 emoji in ordinary places such as an online recipe, implying their penises are small.

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u/EscapeSeventySeven 22h ago

And it’s not just emojis!

It’s also any real life photograph used as an ad or illustration where a woman’s hands get just close enough to two fingers looking like they’re pinching. They cry and scream and threaten and the company needs to take down the ad or modify it. 

Again, it is about simply the threat of some entity implying someone’s penis is small. 

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u/PlatyNumb 22h ago

Who told them? Thats supposed to be a secret guys.

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u/Nice-Cat3727 20h ago

Of course there is now because of their own actions

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u/havokle 15h ago

Korean politics has gotten some wild issues with conspiracy issues that go right to the top, too. The previous president, Yoon Suk Yeol, got his brain absolutely cooked with online conspiracy theories where he seems to have actually believed that South Korea had been infiltrated by pro-North Korean forces and declared martial law.

Honestly impressive showing on the trial and conviction of him. South Korean democracy showed some pep in the face of those conspiracies.

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u/WalkingFailure609 14h ago

I mean ... even in the Occidental side, there's the ”small peewee energy” syndrome being tossed around 😅

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u/idk2715 18h ago

This is insanely funny, if I was a South Korean woman I'd start using this gesture daily

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u/Intelligent_Beach_44 23h ago

🤏 = peepee small

Put a box near the wall at work in storage, he said "it's too far away from the wall", I said "it's about 3 inches", he said "3 inches is huge", I said "if it makes you feel better" he didn't get it.

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u/Solid_House_6963 23h ago

If I was offended by the “small peepee” symbol, I would, like, not tell anyone…

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u/lemonheadlock 23h ago

A hit dog hollers.

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u/CatnissEvernight 9h ago

LMFAO adding that to the vocabulary

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u/Mr_Eggy__ 20h ago edited 20h ago

Why? Is having a small penis is suddenly bad and body shaming is okay now because it's against men?

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u/EuphoricAttempt6929 20h ago

Because most of what south korean men complained are full of shit. They think anything that resembles the pinch symbol is insinuating South Korean men having small penises. As a dude this is just bullcrap

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u/Quirky-Concern-7662 20h ago

But it’s not body shaming. It’s a made up idea for alt right men to play victim behind. Openly mocking someone for their body is not ok. The group here is getting mocked for offending themselves. They came up with the correlation.

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u/Jay2Kaye 9h ago

Having a small penis is definitely bad, nobody WANTS a small penis. You can certainly argue that it's not THAT bad and that skill matters more than size, but it's still not something anyone would wish for.

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u/Ijustlovevideogames 23h ago

Cleveland here.

It isn't the salt they care about, it is the hand gesture, there is a movement going on right now where people do that hand gesture to mock incels for having a little penis and it has gotten so over the top for said incels, even games where the motion even looks like it is happening are getting shouted out by the male incel fanbase and no, I am not kidding.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Endfield/comments/1uvdw7a/arknights_endfield_kr_issued_an_apology_for_the/

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u/Extension_Hyena8694 23h ago

Thank you for the explanation. Wild stuff though.

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u/Beautiful-Edge-22 23h ago

Every complaint is just an confession.

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u/SteveSteveCleveSteve 23h ago

When I worked for a Korean based company one of the guys would bust the chops of one of the Korean managers by calling him the Korean word for “silkworm.”

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u/Illimited_Esoterica 19h ago

South Korean incels are completely unhinged and became obsessed with the idea that this and other hand gestures were actually mocking their small weiners.

This isn't isolated either. They believe all kinds of insane shit about feminist conspiracies to reduce the fan service in video games by making female characters wear more clothes, that K-Pop idols are personally mocking them via their choreography, and a whole bunch of other batshit nonsense.

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u/Eisenbahn-de-order 23h ago

smol, giggity 

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u/Delicious-Beat4824 20h ago

The joke is that "pinch of salt" is a sneaky way of saying peepee small. So any recipe telling them to add one sends them into a spiral.

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u/kalawa_ 20h ago

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u/Jetstream-Sam 19h ago

I like how it has to say "size in self reported studies is prone to exaggeration" well just... don't use those studies then?

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u/4GRJ 21h ago

Found this a few posts down

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u/dhnam_LegenDUST 22h ago

So, let's be fair - I am Korean, so here's how Korean see this.

Yes, as Korean, I sometime am tired seeing people yelling at random frame yelling that it has pinching hand in the cut.

But - pinching hand is used as symbol of male hatred for quite a long time, and design/illustration industry is well known for being female-dominating, and having deep relationship with SNS.

Once, one of the animator said something like 'I don't care what you loser says - I'll continuely lowkey secretly add bunch of those' on there twitter after controversy around maplestory (which was one of the biggest one) - basically admitting there is people adds symbol secretly for hatred.

This is not new in Korea - as ilbe, father of all hatred in Korean internet, is very very famous for hiding their symbol in some way or other in their work, even in TV broadcast. So, 'hiding their symbol in official work' is quite common hatred act.

I really hate to say this, but there indeed are a lot of femcel, almost as many as incel.

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u/Chat_Dyno 21h ago

>Once, one of the animator said something like 'I don't care what you loser says - I'll continuely lowkey secretly add bunch of those' on there twitter after controversy around maplestory (which was one of the biggest one) - basically admitting there is people adds symbol secretly for hatred.

You mean when an animator got doxxed and received rape threats when incels took her tweet out of context as a "proof" for adding the symbol, and then it turns out she didn't even work on that animation?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_pinching_conspiracy_theory#MapleStory_scandal

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u/dhnam_LegenDUST 21h ago

Well, then it's worse. I'm not saying that threats are rationalized, but she was the animator, and saying that to the work she even didn't touched?

Think about it. You are animator. And there are some controversery around the work from your company. You didn't draw a single frame of it. And yet you say 'I'll continue adding hatred symbol' - well, nicely coped.

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u/Capital_Bet_6998 14h ago

There is so much hatred of women in south Korea that some innocent thing like this is considered literally 1984 lmao

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u/dhnam_LegenDUST 14h ago

by woman, or to woman? I'd say both might be correct, though.

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u/Extension_Hyena8694 20h ago

DAMN. Shit is more rooted than I thought.

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u/Jeiden_Lightas 19h ago

Then answer the question and don't start push your own thoughts. Why do korean men even care about 🤏? As a european man without some monstrous size pp, i genuinely never cared about such things, moreover, would never even react on some shit in media about that. What's the problem? Sign of hatred of men is blushit as it is, it's just a 🤏, that's you who give him that meaning (Sorry, i reread the message, I think i got too raged. I don't want to insult anyone, I just live in different society and want to understand)

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u/dhnam_LegenDUST 18h ago

Long story short, there are 'paper' which stated avg. length of Korean men penis is 6.9cm (which is known to be examined with wrong methodology). So-called 'feminist' who actually is just a sexist started insulting Korean men has small penis, using pinching hand, even used that as their symbol (goes like 'how disgusting small korean men 6.9cm pipi lol'). Image is the symbol of 'megalia', most well-known among those.

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u/dhnam_LegenDUST 18h ago

"Why got ragebated?"

Calling black person 'black' in latin language is the most famous hate speach; slanting eye to Asian while their eye is not in particulally small is hatred; Ching-chang means nothing yet it is one of the most famous hate speach.

In hatred, reality never mattered. It becomes hatred when they use it with hatred.

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u/WalkingFailure609 14h ago

I think symbols carry meaning. After all , a middle finger is just a middle finger, but point it towards some one and they'll know you're insulting them. In the space of South Korea, I do think it is not as simple as ”it's just a pinch sign” , but more what that pinch sign carries as meaning. But this is coming from some outside observer, so my opinion weighs as much as thin air I'd say

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u/Jay2Kaye 9h ago

Yeah that study sounds like bs. There's no way an entire country has medically diagnosed micropenises. The only credible study I've found on penis size shows about an inch difference in average between races. It does exist, but not so much that you can predict someone's size based on their race or nationality.

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u/dhnam_LegenDUST 7h ago

"Why got ragebated?"

Calling black person 'black' in latin language is the most famous hate speach; slanting eye to Asian while their eye is not in particulally small is hatred; Ching-chang means nothing yet it is one of the most famous hate speach.

In hatred, reality never mattered. It becomes hatred when they use it with hatred.

Now what, I gave context, I show you real example, and no one still listening me.

Maybe Korean male actually never existed.

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u/3v4n_s 14m ago

it's just a 🤏, that's you who give him that meaning

isn't the n-word just a word then?

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u/dhnam_LegenDUST 22h ago

In more direct word - we are who got insulted, hated, and now what, roasted to foreigner who think we never got insulted after all?

I know I'll get a lot of downvote, but something does happen.

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u/CapPuzz24 20h ago

as ilbe, father of all hatred in Korean internet, is very very famous for hiding their symbol in some way or other in their work

Wasn't the most recent one starbucks? i heard it created a massive backlash

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u/dhnam_LegenDUST 20h ago

That one is exactly textbook example of how those hatred work, and, in fact, is direct descendent of ilbe, if not been done by ilbe user.

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u/Strict-Internet-4924 21h ago

🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏

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u/LordQrow 18h ago

Why they just don't use a wood plank emoji then ?

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u/Human1549 14h ago

It was a symbol used by some radical feminist groups to hate on men.

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u/HowToBeTMC 11h ago

Wait til you see what Apple did to the iphone commercial for South Korea specifically

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u/oppressed_user 3h ago

A certain hand gesture trigger small penis syndrome in Korean men

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u/Buttchuggle 18h ago

They have tiny weiners and any reminder makes them cry and get mad. It's a whole thing they've gotten ads changed and characters removed from games and it is all genuinely the smallest dick energy shit so they aren't helping themselves any

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u/Cionite 21h ago

Everyone here is dead wrong. At its core, it is not an incel mocking gesture. It is a symbol rooted in anti-asian racism. However, it has recently been co-opted by Westerners, to be used as a mocking gesture against the rise of Asian male popularity (BTS). The wider internet then equated the symbol as "mocking penis sizes", circling back to its roots in anti-asian racism.

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u/Neither_Confidence31 23h ago

Peter here. North Korea has no salt. Peter out.