The Brief: Memes of people shaking or holding hands are being shared to demonstrate individuals from different walks of life finding common ground.

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Popular renditions of the meme use stock photos of several people interlocking their hands and wrists, and a drawing from DeviantArt of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Carl Weathers’sΒ iconic handshake in the film Predator. The idea of the meme is that people from different backgrounds can come together to rally around an idea, band, fandom, thing, or shared experience.

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