Those who use gestures in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and in Warzone, you might have noticed that the “OK” hand sign has been taken out of the game. It seems Infinity Ward has stealth removed the Modern Warfare OK gesture without any explanation.
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Over on the official Modern Warfare subreddit, players are up in arms given the Modern Warfare OK gesture is done after an amazing play. And yes, this gesture has been removed from Call of Duty: Warzone too.
While Activision nor Infinity Ward have offered an explanation as to why this was pulled. However, it’s most likely due to how the gesture has been in some cases linked to white supremacists.
The Anti-Defamation League has the OK symbol given how it’s used by some as some sort of expression of white supremacy. Interestingly enough, it mentions forum 4chan as one of the entities that falsely pushed for that narrative.
In 2017, the “okay” hand gesture acquired a new and different significance thanks to a hoax by members of the website 4chan to falsely promote the gesture as a hate symbol, claiming that the gesture represented the letters “wp,” for “white power.” The “okay” gesture hoax was merely the latest in a series of similar 4chan hoaxes using various innocuous symbols; in each case, the hoaxers hoped that the media and liberals would overreact by condemning a common image as white supremacist.
Given Infinity Ward’s support of the Black Lives Matter movement, this is the most logical reason for the removal. That said, we’ve reached out to Activision to get a statement about this and will update the post if we hear anything back.
In other Modern Warfare news, check out the cancelled zombies mode for the game right here.
dude do some background there is no connection its a troll , dumbass
Lol maybe you should do some research my man because there’s definitely a connection.
You do realize it was a troll from 4chan to see if people we gullible enough to take a normal symbol and make it bad. And it worked, if you get offended cause a few racists use it badly, but nobody else it the world does and doesn’t see it as bad. Then you are just looking to be offended.
It’s a universal sign which is hilarious. I guess all divers are racist.
There’s none. You’re just a dumb liberal so out of touch with the political landscape you think everything is offensive. Enjoy the L-andslide in November. You earned it with this childish nonsense.
Good riddance.
I’d hate to see what you think of divers and firefighters all over the world.
This is pure Bullsh1t! Very woke to put this article here!! You’re a game site… do your job ladies!!
HAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHH entitled fruitcakes
Congrats Activision…I’m never giving you another cent ever again.
These executives should consider what marxists want to do to police and then imagine what more livid Americans they can ever count will want to do to them when SHTF.
People will not be forgetting or forgiving their propaganda.
And just like that Activision has guaranteed I won’t be buying their products ever again. As if I buy them anyways. So out of touch with reality I can’t even begin to explain how stupid they are.
Can we replace it with the Middle Finger?
Because that’s what Activision is doing to its audience, giving us the finger.
lol. they fell for the meme. oh wait its 2020, not 2017… they do know that was a joke to see how dumb journalists are right…. the sjw`s and jews know that no one actually uses that as a white nationalist hand gesture? wow….. sad.
It doesnt matter what it started as…. fact is it has now drawn association with racists. I didnt know anything about 4chan or the game the symbol was associated with but started seeing this symbol pop up in images and funny enough still do. So whatever the intentions it has taken on a life of its own and thus should be dealt with….. because you dont want to give racists and bigots wins…. it just emboldens them and makes them worst.
Look at all these closeted racists…. these people works somewhere and its almost guaranteed they work against the interests of black, and jewish people.