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If a bunch of "ironic" racists start using a symbol as a "joke" and one of them flashes it after murdering 50 people because of their religion, then it's officially a hate symbol.
Only if you want it to. For 99.99% of the population the okay sign is still the okay sign.
It's a Poe's Law kind of situation. Some people were saying dumb things about the OK sign because they were pretending to be idiots. Actual idiots see it and start doing it because they're actual white supremacists doing a sign they heard about from the internet to indicate their affiliation.