![]() Signs carried by young protesters against Myanmar’s military coup have featured familiar characters such as Pepe the Frog – adopted in 2016 as a symbol of the US far right, and more recently used by pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong – and Doge and Cheems, two dogs usually picture noisily smacking one another with a bat. The 41-year-old billionaire assembled her four kids - North, 9, Saint, 6, Chicago, 4, and Psalm, 3 - for a photoshoot on the season finale of Hulus The Kardashians. And They’re Raising Three Fingers To Let You Know They Need It. ![]() “It was partly because the anti-coup situation back then felt similar to scenes in the Hunger Games film, where people put three fingers up towards President Snow,” he said. In the hunger games franchise, the salute, in which three middle fingers are raised, and the thumb crosses over them to reach the pinky finger is displayed by oppressed people to express solidarity in a dystopian world ruled by a tyrant called president snow. He added that the anti-authoritarian messaging conveyed in the Hunger Games films resonated with the youth protesters at the time. The gesture originated in The Hunger Games, but has been adopted by pro-democracy protest movements in Southeast Asia, mainly in Thailand and Myanmar, as well. “We knew that it would be easily understood to represent concepts of freedom, equality, solidarity,” Seritiwat said. Since 2014, the hand gesture has been used widely in Thailand at protest sites. ![]() Pro-democracy protest leader Parit ‘Penguin’ Chiwarakin flashes the three-finger salute in front of portrait of Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun.
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