The mark

Me, a mixed race person of color who doesn't sunburn or freckle, reading how all the white folk in the comments have the same mark.

"Hmmm...I'll be damned."
- It is now your duty to inspect all white people for this mark & care for the ones unlucky enough not carry it.
  This honor is not to be taken lightly, you are now a leader undertaking grave responsibilities.
  
  So how many people knew about this shared freckle badge? I apparently am defective as I didn’t get stamped with it at birth, maybe my mom forgot to check that option at the dealership. Maybe this means I’m a reptilian or am a member of the illuminati. Or who knows maybe I sliced it off in my youthful escapades and shenanigans. Oh well, just another club I’m not a member of.
- Hate to break it to you. Im 100% Jamaican.
- New paper bag test just dropped
- I am not even white and I have it. Although it is a bit closer towards the wrist than this pic.
- I am mixed race, half Indian and I have it
  
  Nice profile picture!

- Dude this pic could've waited until your poo was finished
  
  But then they wouldn't be living up to their username.
  
  Just be glad i wore my clean pair of boxers today
  
  Could it though?
- Nice dick, bro.
- I hope the shutter sound was turned off
- You went to the toilet just to take this photo. Don't take it as a criticism, I would have, too.
  
  No i was actually at work browsing lemmy on the toilet. Didn't think it would hit this hard lol

At least in the USA, it's probably due to having been alive long enough for sun damage to cause a freckle on the side of your body nearest the car window while driving.
- I'm in the UK. We drive on the opposite side, freckle in the exact spot on my left arm, nothing on my right.
  
  Oh dang. Good point.
- I mean... I've never driven a vehicle that didn't have tinted windows (the heat reduction benefits are huge), but then the sun wants me dead anyway; I spent a week in a southern state and suddenly had freckles in places that never saw the sun.
  
  We oldsters learned to drive in cars for which open windows were the only air conditioning.
- I’ve had mine since before I started driving ¯(ツ)_/¯
  I noticed in my late teens I had a lot of freckles on the left side of my body and very few on the right, and I didn’t start driving until I was 22. I did spend 2 years in high school with a much darker tan on my right arm from hanging my arm out the window of a boyfriend’s car with no AC, but still have more left-arm freckles.
- In your forearm? It's a freckle.

Not sure if this counts
- You’re more freckle than human.
  
  He's more ginger now than man; twisted and evil.
  
  I'm one of the day walkers, blonde w/ freckles
- Cool watch

Dude...
- Like solving where is Waldo
- Got a lil tzeetch on ya

Which one are we talking about here?
- Check out this overachiever

- Oh that one is a gay freckle
  
  You can tell because it’s round, not straight 🧐
- Ok serious question: how does your arm look gay? I'm intrigued and confused
  
  Oh I meant I'm gay and panicking 😂

I have it. This is sorcery.

ITT: .world’s image hosting costs are doubled

Dont you guys remember? We were all there. That's where they put the bees in.

Why ?
- Edit: it’s faint, but it’s there
  
  Sir, this is a leg.
  
  Harambe?
  
  ~~Imposter!~~ edit: nvm I see the proof now!
- Generational secret
- It's how the government stops foreign mind control signals from interfering with domestic signals. Kinda like a SIM card for the governments.

What the fuck why is this correct
- Because almost everyone has a fuckin random ass freckle somewhere.

- This is exactly how I use tarot! It's not a magical technique of divination, it's a collection of targeted vagueries that help your brain frame a concept in a way you wouldn't naturally conceive. You make the answers, tarot is just the conceptual equivalent of picking up an object and inspecting it to figure out what it is.
- The way I see it, it's just a form of therapy. People don't walk in and sit silently, they talk about their problems and get vague reassurance that everything is going to be alright - or occasional advice when they're way out of bounds
  I don't think it's unethical to do that, so long as you operate in good faith with good intentions

Why do you gather us like this bröther?
- It's for The Singularity. Creepio's got us covered, relax.
- Skin constellations

Wtf
- Yeah just checked I have it too. What the fuck!

What the fuck
- Yo bill Cypher. That's rad
  
  Hey, you're rad!

Probability of a freckle on any limb is going to increase with age. I'm 4/4, maybe 8/8 if you count both sides of each limb. So yeah, pretty good chance that others born before 1990 are going to have a freckle there.
- Nah, 1998 is when the aliens began switching to a new implant technology that does not leave a mark.
  
  I have one and was born after 98 though. Why would they use old thech on me? Am I really that unimportant on them?

I have it too. That's actually insane. I'm born in Sweden.
Maybe it's the sign of everyone who agreed to be here on this planet and watch spectacular stupidy together.

I have never seen so many forearm pictures in a single place before.
Also I have it too reee.
- My inbox has been almost 100% forearms for 24 hours, and it's still going.
  
  If you are a 90s kid you have this freckle on your ~~arm~~ boobs

How to get a bunch of random people to take a picture of their arm and post it online.
Choice A: ask everyone to post take a picture of their arm and post it
Choice B: Make it completely absurd statement as if it were absolute truth thereby challenging everyone to prove you wrong
- There was a very fun defcon talk a while back about how easy it is to (among other things) create a convincing set of prosthetic fingerprints from social media posts showing off jewelry or handchecking vapes/guns/knifes/etc.

I have like 12 freckles on that arm, does that mean I was born in 1880?
- Yeah that math works out
  
  Because the '90s were 10 years ago you mean?

Wrong arm, but do we count it?
- You can't fool me, that's a right arm!
  
  It's a left arm, OP just mirrored the image for some reason
- We can also identify you by the unique wood grain pattern on your floor.
  I mean, also by the freckles federal database and optical the sensor noise pattern registry
  
  Tbh, you could just google my name and find me in abooouuuut 3 seconds haha. I just thought it was funny.

Mine is on my right arm do I need to go see a doctor?
- Mirrored freak, go back to your sinister quicksilver realm and leave us be
- So you're the reason things have been so off lately.
- Mine too, maybe it’s right arm for women??

I'm a pretty heavily freckled person, but damn if I don't have a pronounced, solitary freckle precisely at this location on my left arm.
I bet it's related to driving with my left arm hanging out the window. In the US at least, people who do that have their left arm over-exposed to sun damage.
- Trucker arm seems to be a thing worldwide.

Whæt the fuck? How common is that?
- Freckles are the only way to tell eople and robots apart. Everyone has at least one freckle on their left arm. If they don't, they're a robot.
  
  I’m a robot but have thousands of freckles on my left arm. We overcompensated a little bit.
  
  Is that what they told you? C'mon, I thought you androids were supposed to be smart. The freckles are obviously marks they put on robots. Humans don't have them.

I don't have it! What's wrong with me??
- Born in the 80s also don't have it.

Well I've learned one thing from this thread: Either Lemmy is mostly white people or almost everyone else isn't silly enough to to take a photo of their arm.
- I wasn't going to because of identifying tattoos, but you goaded me successfully. Besides, I'm extremely proud of my tats.
  
  That password is not very secure, you should come up with a longer one

Mine has a double triangle, I am the triforce
- Double triangle? That's a bi-force

Yep, it's there alright

God damn it

- Checking in from uk

Rut roh... I've got three of them.
- The chosen one!

Hey quick question what the fuck

Wtf

'85 and I don't have this freckle.

Welcome to survivor bias land.
(I don't have it.)
- I think we all know what to do...
  
  I don't. Do you need silver or fire for changelings?

Bro wtf

Born in 90's freckle confirmed
- Yo nice ink you go there, what is it meant to be if you don’t mind me asking.
  
  It looks like a Maya glyph

I dont have it, Im black, I got one on my bicep tho!!!
Can I join the club now??
- Of course!
  
  :D

I've reported you to the police.
- Floor gang, whattup

Motherfucker...

New photo challenge. If you were born after 1990 but are older than 18 {legal rider} and have two x chromosomes, you likely have two large features on your chest.

HOW IN THE FUCK

Me too! WTF? Why?

This is awakening a sort of core memory in me. It was some vaccination wasn't it?
- No. People who are older than that have a smallpox vaccination scar on the shoulde from the vaccines in 1958-1977.
  The arm thing is just an urban myth and plays on confirmation bias. Almost everyone have a freckle there for no good reason.
  However.... Mexicans actually have a tuberculosis vaccination mark on the arm, but most other countries didn't need to vaccinate against that.
  That's how these myths spread, part truth+loads of bullshit.
  
  Nah, I got the BCG back in the 80s, and I'm in the UK. So definitely not just Mexicans. That is one nasty vaccination, by the way. Do not recommend the experience.
  
  None of us 1971 kids got the smallpox scar. Discontinued in 1972 (US). Whew.
  
  Yeah it’s just because was in the sun a lot in high school because I was a lifeguard back then lol

I'm in the club. Is there a handshake?
- You just rub your spots together.

90s rep
- The cat in the back is blurry. Do you have a better picture of it?
  
  Of course ask and ye shall receive
  Also there's a real cute video of orange boy biting in my post history
  
  He just looks like that

AYO Wtf

Sorry was born in the 80s so I don’t have this but have a cigarette burn from when my parent thought the window was open and it wasn’t and tried to flick there butt out the window for it to only go back at me. We laughed it off
- Remarkably ubiquitous, it would seem, for children of the 80s.
  Kids these days will never know the widespread, culturally accepted casual disregard for general safety, as it was. Which is probably for the best.

This is blowing my mind. I have one in the EXACT SAME spot.

(looks at arms)
Now listen here you little shit!

Yep. Me too.

It's actually weird how I have the left forearm freckle, but nothing on the right arm. Is it from sticking your arm out while driving or something??
I don't even drive though so
- It's where the microchips went in.

Wtf

YO WTF?