What do YOU think it means when a survivor waves their arms on the hook?

Usually i take it as "come get me"

Or they're just bored lol

In my experience it's ADHD.

Since they usually start waving their arms as soon as they're hooked and don't stop until someone is there to unhook them.

Doesn't matter if they're camped, hooked and left alone or whatever.

So idk.

Then they should not complain when competent teammates don't save them and let them die on their first hook thinking they are being camped.

Waving your hands initially to show the killer is camping then you stop. If you see a survivor running towards you, you do it until the survivor stops and turns around. That is how it has always been and always will be. If you aren't being camped and you wave your hands, sucks to be you. There is no reason to wave your hands to get rescued. Everyone knows you're hooked. Waving your hands to get us to come faster isn't something you should do. It's a waste of time. Be patient and wait. If you know you're being insidious camped, give those hands a throw to warn us from a possible down.

The initial use was and has always been the same. Just because someone down the line has chosen to make it different, doesn't mean the original isn't the true way. If someone is waving their arms, no one is going for them. Making obvious changes to something that is simple and easy to understand is detrimental and has caused many issues in the past 2 years to this game. Camped, wave your arms so no one continues to run towards you then stop. Waving your arms because YOU want to get unhooked without anyone knowing where the killer is, serves no purpose. People will come for you on the hook when you're halfway, someone else gets hit or they see the Entity Spikes move around. There is no reason to move your arms around just because you want someone to rescue you. Be patient and wait. You wave your arms, no one wants to run over there just to get hit on the way to the hook then traded by a camper when they can finish gens and get you before you die.

When I do it, it means no one is coming for me

I started playing near the end of 2017. The general consensus then was waving your arms meant I'm being camped. Even then though, there was debate about it. But I'm stuck in my old ways mostly so this is what I mean when I do it.

Waving my arms repeatedly means killer is camping me or patrolling the hook.

Grabbing hold of the hook and letting go at the last second before unhook attempt means I'm ready to be unhooked, come and get me.

Attempting to unhook myself means you are crouch walking too me for no reason or healing right beside the hook when the killer isn't near so you better unhook me before I hit stage two because if I do I'm going to kill myself on the hook or if you get me before I die I will run straight to the killer and let him down me.

When it is someone else, I just ignore what they are doing and figure it out for myself. If the gen I am on is close to finished, I will finish the gen. If not, I will run over to the hook and use my eyes and ears to figure out what the killer is doing.

I also get a little salty sometimes when people try to unhook themselves in front of me when I am running up to unhook them. I have on occasion stood there and let them hit stage 2. Kobe at your own risk.

As other have expressed, i use them continuosly and almost filling the whole bar to indicate when the Killer is camping.

I do it briefly once or twice to indicate that noone is coming and i could go into the second phase if someone doesn't start running towards me.

Of course you can never be sure it gets interpreted the right way 😅

If a survivor is doing it constantly, I assume they’re just bored.

I do it as a “hey, the killer is actually right here, don’t grab me” signal, but I notice most survivors don’t adhere to that.

I always thot it was a sighn the killer had left and usually it is

I do it when the Killer is nearby to signal that he is camping, also to make noise so the Killer might not hear nearby survivors.

As an avid Kindred user, I can confidently say that it cannot be assigned any meaning at all. For the sole reason that it’s literally the only thing a hooked survivor can do.

If you assign any meaning to it, there’s just way too much potential for misinformation, to the point that you may as well check anyway.

They may be tabbed out when being facecamped, leaving them limp. They may be bored and spam it. They may be doing it in rhythm to the music they’re listening to. You simply don’t have any certainty. Then there’s also the matter of interpretation by others. What is considered quick? Do they even notice you doing it at all?

When you have big content creators who don’t even have a consistent meaning for themselves, let alone one agreed upon - and, more importantly, actually consistently used as such - by multiple content creators, you cannot expect the majority of players to know and express one single meaning.

It originally meant that the killer is camping. Nowadays people don't seem to understand that, but I just treat it as if that's the case. If somebody's waving their arms, I just stick on the generator. Hopefully, people will learn the meaning of that movement eventually.

I only wave my arms when the Killer is camping. If teammates continue to get closer, I start holding the button down like I'm going to attempt to jump off but stop shortly before the bar fills. As someone that only plays solo, that's all I think I can do xD;

I view that as the survivor practicing their arm thrusting exercises.

You're always going to be camped, so not really sure why you're asking, but lets say the camper is playing fair:

I would leave my arms hanging if someone is already coming for me, so the others can work on gens or whatever without rushing to me. If nobody is coming, then flail your arms until they fall out of their sockets.

It means they forgot kindred and won't be making the same mistake for the rest of the night.