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Anyone know what this symbol means? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by Aremel@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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This was posted under the punch clock at work. I assume it's some kind of occult symbol but that's just a guess. Anyone know what it is or what it means?

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[–] kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 13 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

This is 100% the sigil from Yellow Jackets.

I only watched season 2 the one time when it was new so I might be misremembering, but iirc we don't actually know what it means or what its origins are yet. It currently represents survival and, in some ways, a return to a simpler, harder kind of life. The inevitability of fate, even.

The management is probably upset about it because of its association with brutality and cannibalism. Even if the odds are like 99-1 that it's just folks being fans of a show, I can def see how it might make some others a bit uncomfortable to find it getting tagged in this setting.

Edit: some words

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 6 points 19 hours ago

Yup, here it is:

[–] i_ben_fine@midwest.social 19 points 23 hours ago

Yellowjackets has broken containment?

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 12 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

That's the schematic symbol for an interocetor.

[–] frozenpopsicle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Use only genuine interocetor parts.

[–] justabaldguy@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Are you boys making an interocetor up there??

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

[–] ZMonster@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

It's a long par 9 to our nation's capital.

[–] Oaksey@lemmy.world 95 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

“Stop putting this symbol everywhere”
Proceeds to put posters with the three of the symbols on it everywhere

[–] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 14 points 23 hours ago

An interesting version of the Streisand Effect.

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 200 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Looks like it's from a show called Yellowjackets.

https://yellowjackets.fandom.com/wiki/Symbol

[–] pleasestopasking@reddthat.com 147 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You beat me to it, just from a TV show.

But I bet Nancy in HR thinks it's satanic and is reacting as such.

[–] Aremel@lemmy.world 78 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Honestly, this tracks with where I work. I thought it was something cooler.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

Sad reality is that this is probably the coolest likely outcome. Coin toss between regular graffiti and some nazi shit the rest of the time.

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[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 52 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks for the link, here is a quote:

Throughout the Showtime original series Yellowjackets, a strange symbol appears. It resembles an impaled female figure, with a hook coming out of the bottom. As of the end of the program's third season, the symbol's exact significance remains unknown.

So... Management at OP's workplace are just making a fuss over nothing or they were really traumatized by the show? I never watched it

[–] Transtronaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean...I didn't watch it either, but I can't picture a workplace where it would be considered acceptable and professional behavior to draw pictures of impaled women all over the place.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The drawings are very abstract.

Because I didn't watch Yellowjackets as already mentioned, I don't know if the drawing is also supposed to represent an impaled female figure at all in the show. The quote says it's unclear, but perhaps the characters at some point establish that's what it represents. If that's the case, I agree with you, yeah it's offensive and inappropriate to draw something that most people know represents impaled women with hooks up their asses.

However, personally, I have to do some intense mental gymnastics to see those scribbles as impaled women with hooks up their asses. To me they look like geometric symbols and without any context I would have thought it was something related to alchemy or astrology. Not murder.

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[–] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is this Lost

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

From the one episode I saw - yes.

Im personally very wary of getting invested in it cause I'm afraid it will just keep upping the ante without answering anything, but my friends who have watched it said that it does seem to have a direction and does actual address things.

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[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago

Sigils are usually custom made and it's pretty much impossible to figure out wtf it means by looking at it

[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Over a nonsense symbol?! People are just pathetic sometimes.

[–] kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 1 day ago (4 children)

lol reminds me of one of these from the ars goetia

[–] HenryDorsett@lemmy.world 11 points 22 hours ago

My first thought was a self-made sigil, it even has a clue as to the creator in it.

But I'm not a narc, so if their HR is watching they can get fucked.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Or Hobo Code:

https://www.openculture.com/2018/08/hobo-code-introduction-hieroglyphic-language-early-1900s-train-hoppers.html

[–] PartyAt15thAndSummit@lemmy.zip 13 points 22 hours ago

Unicode addition when?

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Imagine thinking that someone wrote "don't give up" when they meant to write "hobos arrested on sight".

[–] montechristo@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago

This is Dark Souls all over again... Though I wouldn't mind a game using these (or similar) icons instead of messages in text form.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

It makes me wonder the origin of the 2/10 symbol for thieves is.

[–] Atom@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Keep your 2 eyes on everyone's 10 fingers

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 points 21 hours ago

They have a lot of circuit patterns in there.

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[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 74 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Before reading the other comments, I would have said that it’s probably a meaningless doodle, but it looks evil to people who are reflexively suspicious of anything unfamiliar.

That note under the punch clock is a hilarious overreaction, and I love it! Management isn’t just feeding the troll; they’re making the troll a full Thanksgiving dinner.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

imagine having the mindset that an image has that much power over you. I still remember the Dungeon Masters manual from d&d making adults absolutely furious!

Iron Maiden cover art was pure evil energy

but you heard them actually learn what is behind those images and it's just fuckin make believe nonsense turned up to max

[–] EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Growing up in Christian Fundie Hell during the height of the Satanic Panic was certainly an experience.

My partner at the time loved Zelda: Wind Waker. They had the poster for it and all, but had blacked out with a sharpie a screenshot on it of one of the dungeons because it was called Temple of the Gods or something.

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The 2000s were the height? You're at least a decade off: https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/mcmartin-preschool and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-care_sex-abuse_hysteria and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic

I personally remember my brother being forced to destroy his gold cartridge Ocarina of Time when my mother heard/thought it was pagan witchcraft. She watched him do it and claimed she saw green fire/smoke blaze up from it and claimed that it was the devil that had been inside. So that was the later 90s, I guess.

[–] EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

You forget that the Midwest is always a few years behind, and that goes double for the heavily rural Midwest 😉

What's more, the height of the moment was more of a plateau than a peak.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Would be hard to resist drawing the symbol on the flyer.

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[–] last_philosopher@lemmy.world 63 points 1 day ago

I'm generally highly suspicious of any picture of a piece of paper with writing on it posted on social media.

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 45 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Looks like something from Gravity Falls

[–] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Just finished watching the last episode of Weidmageddon about 30 minutes ago and instantly had the same thought... Obviously that Bill Cipher right there!

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[–] TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 22 hours ago

my first thought was that this was a social science experiment lol

[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 84 points 1 day ago (5 children)

[–] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Boston Police Department stated in its defense that the ad devices shared some similarities with improvised explosive devices

Anything can look like a bomb if you're stupid

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[–] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 2 points 18 hours ago

Looks like a hodgepodge of hobo code.

[–] yessikg@fedia.io 68 points 1 day ago (10 children)

That's the symbol from Yellowjackets. If you are curious about the show, only the first season is good

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[–] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

That post from HR is almost asking for more trouble. There would no more work being done because now everyone would be busy trying to figure out what that symbol meant, as well as copy-cats doing the same symbol elsewhere in the company.

[–] SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

It looks like something that would happen in twin peaks, except the symbol would be cursed.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago

No dancing fairies with boots.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 10 points 1 day ago

Looks like it was some sort of anti-free mason symbol

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