Leftwards Hand: Light Skin Tone on Reddit

What it signals here

upvote context

Used in comments to point at a highly upvoted reply above, endorsing or referencing it without restating the point.

community use

Appears in community threads to direct readers to a relevant cited source, wiki, or linked post within the thread.

subreddit meaning

In subreddits like r/memes or r/funny, used to point at the punchline or the subject of a meme with minimal text.

karma context

Sometimes used self-deprecatingly to point at one's own comment history or post in a karma-farming joke context.

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