silentdevil

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So, at the extreme risk of outing myself. Memes aside... where did the whole "hand holding extreme lewd/degenerate" thing come from?

Please know culturally I live under a rock and while yes, I could google it. I much prefer learning of it from actual fellow humans instead of a quick blerb on.. Urban Dictionary or something.

Goddess I remember when urban dictionary was where we went to learn what L33T SP34K was.. I don't even know if I did that right.
 
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The_Man_With_No_Name

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So, at the extreme risk of outing myself. Memes aside... where did the whole "hand holding extreme lewd/degenerate" thing come from?

Please know culturally I live under a rock and while yes, I could google it. I much prefer learning of it from actual fellow humans instead of a quick blerb on.. Urban Dictionary or something.

Goddess I remember when urban dictionary was where we went to learn what L33T SP34K was.. I don't even know if I did that right.
It doesn't really have a specific origin based off of a specific source or thing.

It's sort of a play on righteous indignation over degenerate acts by using the more innocent signs of affection like hand holding.
A sort of role reversal for comedy where lewd or other things unacceptable in public are given a pass.
People tend to censor the hand holding as part of the joke or as a way to poke fun at over-censorship of media.
 

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So, at the extreme risk of outing myself. Memes aside... where did the whole "hand holding extreme lewd/degenerate" thing come from?

Please know culturally I live under a rock and while yes, I could google it. I much prefer learning of it from actual fellow humans instead of a quick blerb on.. Urban Dictionary or something.

Goddess I remember when urban dictionary was where we went to learn what L33T SP34K was.. I don't even know if I did that right.
A combination of mediums, Anime mostly, where internal thoughts show the dilemma of the couple in question wondering about if their relationship is at the point of holding hands...
there are also a couple of western examples too, usually initiated by the lady, to show others that they are a couple.
and because I try to be fair, a different example is from The Full Monty, between two blokes :
 
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