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ahhh its horrible no idea hope its fixed
The hands with the writing on the fingers was used in “The Blues Brothers”, “Fight Club” and “Cape Fear”. Perhaps the heiroglyphics means that the blues brother (the two YouTube founders) find themselves in a fight club (copyright infringement battle) that they cape fear (would rather avoid the cigar-smoking, laughing man in the movie theater).
That’s from the Russel Crowe movie “Master and Commander”. It says on the knuckles: HOLD FAST
It means to not break, etc.
Woah. Deep. Thanks, MrOrange.
The writing-on-hands was also featured in Master and Commander. I think that’s where the picture is from.