The "🙌🏿" or "Raising Hands: Dark Skin Tone" emote is a variation of the "🙌" or "Raising Hands" emote with a darker skin tone. It is commonly used to express excitement, celebration, praise, or gratitude in online communication, particularly within Black and Brown communities. The dark skin tone variant was added as part of Unicode 8.0 in 2015 to promote diversity and inclusivity in digital communication.