Kids love to play games, and sometimes this involves pretending to be on the phone, but it turns out that the hand gesture being used has changed quite a bit in recent years.
Prepare to feel your hair turning grey as you read this article.
In the not-so-distant past, kids formed the shape of a telephone by curling back three of their middle fingers and forming a mouthpiece and a speaker with their pinky and thumb.
But as we all know, the shape of telephones has changed quite a bit in the age of the smartphone and this popular hand gesture has now changed with them.
Watch the new hand gesture in the video below:It's a case of out with the old and in with the new in the worst way possible.
The hand gesture for smartphones was unsurprisingly unveiled on social media platform TikTok, where it went viral, and at the time of writing, it has 284.6K likes and 7,581 comments.
The video opens with a man saying "You know you're getting old when..." and he asks a few adults who make the old gesture when asked to pretend they are talking on the phone.
He then asks a few members of the new generation, and they simply put a flat palm up to their face to mimic a smartphone.
Needless to say, the majority of the comments were nostalgically looking back to a simpler technological time.
One user commented: "I'm born in 1998 which is that awkward year where I do these old hand gestures but never actually used the object itself. We're the middle child."
Another commented: "They also will never know the satisfaction of snapping a flip phone shut or slamming the phone on the hook."
Meanwhile, a third remarked: "omg this video just made my whole day I just asked my kids Wich are 9,7,5 the same thing they did the new generation way lol."
So, there you have it, if you want to make yourself really old, simply ask a kid today how they make a phone gesture and feel the grey hairs appear...
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