My understanding was rap song (possibly a reference to violence) -> used in TikToks especially basketball -> said by a kid at a basketball game while doing an excited hand gesture -> went viral from that and now kids just shout out for funsies, because kids do silly things.
It’s funny how people don’t seem to remember being a kid. I can name you plenty of memes and in-jokes from middle school/high school where the “joke” was that it had literally no meaning. Adults being confused about kids these days only fuels the joke.
Like, has anyone lost the game recently? You think that’s any more high-brow?
Like, has anyone lost the game recently?
Not since XKCD #391. You’re welcome.
And the only way to kill it is for adults to start saying it, usually incorrectly, as much as possible.
That would be pretty 6-7 of us adults to do.
We could shorten it to negative one because that’s six minus seven and shortening things and having to explain them makes them cooler
I’m a school bus driver and a former programmer. The elementary kids on my bus like to say “what is six plus seven? Six-seven!” and I say “sure, in Visual Basic”. They don’t get it, naturally enough.
Almost like it’s imaginary
6-7 makes no sense because the root of 6-7 is literally imaginary 🤯
No, that’s the square root of negative one.
They are. Been to a sporting event with young kids.
“Nut check!” [Blinding agony]
What’s the capital of Thailand?
I remember being a kid, and yet I do not remember any of the “lol random” things I thought were fucking hilarious except the phrase “penis wrinkle.” That shit still makes me laugh so hard it hurts.
We used to have a “Guess what?” “What?” “Nope!” routine going as kids. I still laugh at that one for no valid reason.
I lose the game every time someone shares a loss meme. I find that meme stupid so I happily share my loss of The Game to make everyone else suffer a loss with me!
Holds up spork
My spoon is too big!
I just lost the game
I remember being annoyed at kids being dumb when I was a kid. Honestly it bothers me less now.
Losing the game was a clear concept with the joke of losing the moment you were reminded you were playing. It didn’t have huge depth but it was clever.
If this thing is truly just a phrase that means absolutely nothing and has no meaning or message or purpose, sure that’s cool, but it’s no the game.
Really adults are using this to at least with their kids. I don’t understand what is confusing it’s just a saying that well fade away like so many others.
I saw the original clip; the kid saying “six seven!” and doing a bobbling hand gesture looked and sounded pretty ridiculous and I can absolutely see how it would get turned into a meme, especially if you repeat it enough on TikTok-style short videos
Just saw a language Jones video about exactly this. Pretty much echoed the same thing.
Should probably link it here: https://youtu.be/laZpTO7IFtA
Lo ciento
6-7 or 10-67 is a police code often in reference to report a dead body.
Codes vary dramatically from one jurisdiction to the next.
apparently it’s the code from philly, skrilla’s* home town, who wrote the song that started all this.
skrilla is not skrillex apparently doh
Skrilla* the drill artist, not Skrillex the dubstep artist lmao
haha I stand corrected
Yeah, except he isn’t from Philly! People are just trying to link things, and they don’t care to actually check.Edit: Nevermind. Misremembered. The bad explanation is that it’s from Chicago and he isn’t from Chicago.
Check this video out. It’s good and I think has the actually explanation: https://youtu.be/laZpTO7IFtA
My tenth grade nephew said something about how it started because NBA player Lonzo Ball is 6’7" and was described as “six seven” during a broadcast.
I think that’s why the song was originally used in basketball TikToks.
This is the answer I have seen the most. Also the kids have no clue what they are saying other than it’s a meme of a meme. Let em have fun.
Joe out there with the detonator about to blow them up
Joe? Joe who?
Joe Mamma
Joe Biden
Joe Nuts
This meme is like a Rosetta stone for genz communication
That rings true… because I don’t know what half of it means. :-P
GOT EEM
I still want 2 CDs!
Millennials losing their minds over this when we used to shout ‘fuck your couch!’ and Rick James, Bitch! all the time, before memes were a thing.
I suppose memes have always been memes, but they were simply auditory before
In my day. we just quoted Monty Python and everyone would laugh at how clever you were. This is effectively the same thing.
No one expects the 6-7 imposition!
Those words mean things. They might not make a lot of sense in the context we used them in, but they formed a thought.
6-7 isn’t even a semi complete concept on the surface of it. It’s literally devoid of any meaning at all.
I fucking dig it. Surrealist slang is the best. We had our own shit like that too.
A favourite pastime of every old fart is to tell everyone who can’t run away, how much better culture, music, memes, and life in general was when they were young, and how stupid, devoid of meaning, inferior current youth’s activities are.
Then explain it! What does 6-7 mean? Because even though people might use it wrong, “Fuck your couch” actually means something.
You grew old and lost that sense of excitement you get being a group of young people, feel of comradery you get yelling nonsense in unison, being stupid to the same wavelength. That’s what that means. You may try to justify your nonsense because your adult brain doesn’t want to grasp the reality that you also was young and stupid so you try to feint some justification for it.
Never yelled random stuff. It was never a thing. And WTF is Fuck your couch never heard of it.
It’s a reference to Chappelle Show about how Rick James disrespected Charlie Murphy by getting his muddy boots on his white suede couch, and Rick James is like “Fuck yo couch! You’re rich, buy another one! Fuck yo couch!” while spreading mud on the couch. It’s about disrespecting you, but also dismissing complaints rather than actually admit you did anything wrong.
It refers to radio code “10-67” used by various public safety agencies:
Dead body found and/or fatality being investigated on scene.
Adjacent to 10-66 which instructs dispatch to notify the medical examiner.
It’s the classic gangsta rap boast of “check it out i murdered someone, I’m a tough hard-boiled badass”
The kids saying it out loud don’t realize that was what the rapper they’re quoting was referencing, though.
I’m not sure why you haven’t gotten more upvotes.
To bring this full circle. “67” was used in a (semi?) popular song among Gen alpha, and unless they know this factoid, and that “67” is used as slang for the 10-67 police code in Philadelphia, then the placement of “67” in the lyrics of the song seems very odd at least, and completely random at best.
It seems that a nontrivial amount of Gen Alpha humor hinges on randomness, but as far as I’m concerned that’s not exclusive to their generation. My fellow millennials were ROFL-ing to some pretty random stuff in our glory days too, so that part I get. With Gen alpha one noticed that the less of a meaning something seems to have, the more they cling to it, and the funnier it becomes.
6-7 sits in such an obscure part of human knowledge that, until very recently, only a very small group even understood it, even now, I would say that number hasn’t really changed much. And because the meaning of 67 in the original lyric was unknown and presumed to not exist, making the lyric both random and meaningless, it’s become the funniest shit ever for the Gen alpha kids.
Look, anyone from Gen alpha, I love you. You guys keep doing what you’re doing. Let your freak flags fly. Do it while you can. As Baz Luhrmann said: “enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Nevermind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they’ve faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you’ll look back on photos of yourself and recall in a way that you can’t grasp now, how much possibility laid before you, and how fabulous you really looked.”
Cheers everyone.
Does the hand gesture mean anything?
It feels like “Eh, it’s a 6 or a 7” to me. But I’m an old man so take with a grain of salt haha
The equivalent of saying “Ayyyy” because The Fonz said it.
At least someone understands me.
I can explain it better than the people using it right now. 6-7 is a social indicator of being “in” on the joke. It identifies people as part of a generation/movement.
This type of thing isn’t particularly unique. Like with “fuck your couch” it indicates that someone is a part of a social group.
The difference that the other poster is missing, is that, unlike previous stuff, where something like “fuck your couch” (to continue with the same example) has meaning outside of what it’s referencing, aka those are words that mean things, 6-7 doesn’t share the same informational bias.
“I can dig it”, even without knowing the social etymology of the phrase can be interpreted by a layman, more or less, for its relative meaning. Meanwhile 6-7 is impossible to comprehend without knowing what it is referencing.
… It actually comes from Philadelphia slang, but I also wouldn’t expect Gen alpha to know that either.
We are living in the dumbest times imaginable, so I find this quite fitting.
i’m sure there’s other folks here who remember No soap, radio!
Back in uni when I’d go out drinking I’d be walking through campus and people would just randomly scream out “WHAT!'” And someone else would scream out “OKAY!”
There were many "fuck yo couch"es too
Wait a sec… I never said that first one. JD is that you?
I never rubbed my feet on Charlie Murphy’s Couch…
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
No, this one is uniquely incomprehensible
I find this actually annoying. I don’t mind that it’s meta or a reference to something I don’t know about, I mind that there’s nothing to play with except invoking it
It’s so meta it’s only meta, it’s a reference to white noise
I also found “the game” annoying for comparison
Damn man, I was on a streak (totally joking while kind of being serious).
Thanks for the source though, I still don’t get it but I’m also still using the same ringtone I used when my son started school (he’s in college now).
I just spread it again without realizing it, damn cognitohazards…
But yeah, here there’s literally nothing to get. There’s no cultural context, no deeper meaning - the whole thing is just the hand motion and saying “six seven”
“The game” actually had a thing to it, there was logic and reason behind it and it was actually funny for a bit.
Someday centuries from now web archeologists will discover it and share it among their collogues a fun little inside joke. But then it will spread to their friends and families and then to their coworkers and their loved ones. And it will be born again like some ancient evil.
Born too late to get a degree in Webchaerolgy. :(
fuck your couch
Oh it all makes sense now
Shady JD took that as a suggestion.
I suppose memes have always been memes, but they were simply auditory before
That’s a “catch phrase”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catchphrase#History
Kilroy was here. A vintage cartoon meme from the midcentury; quite rare these days.
I spotted a couple Kilroroys in the ancient ass cereal factory I worked at in the 00s. Lots of good hobo marks in the box cars that came through, too: Moniker (graffiti) - Wikipedia https://share.google/PzAtUnQhInHkgD2qT
you’re breaking my balls with that
It means that the ultimate question to life, the universe, and everything is what is 6 times 7
I see you had a functional scrabble bag to pull from.
what is six times nine, canonically
Yeah, Arthur definitely did not have the great question in him.
I mean the entirety of the planet earth is supposed to calculate that. Would you expect a stick of RAM to be able to do what a complete computer can?
Also, the planet was infected by a virus. Its processes got corrupted, so of course the output is bad.
Five four.
four two.
Eek! There’s mice on the table!
Except Arthur Dent wasn’t descended from the original hominids of Earth, but rather the useless humans who came from another planet, so the question was corrupted in his mind.
We had Pauly Shore and valleyspeak so I really can’t say anything about any other generations slang.
calling it slang is…a stretch.
I guess it was kind of a whole vernacular, but there was a lot of slang in there. Oh you mean the OP… yes I suppose lol.
The real meaning:
a plausible explanation with an excellent linguistic deep dive on the entire vernacular terrain.
TYVM for the link.
I was coming to post this
The fact that the only adults I know regularly saying it are right wingers, has made me paranoid that it’s some secret Nazi shit. Even though I can find no evidence of that online.
Near as I can tell, there’s nothing nefarious at all about it. Rightwingers like it for the same reason children do
They love their shibboleths.
thanks for teaching me a new word!
that said, i think that some of us forget what it was like to go to school - especially how fucking boring i was. any phrase that would get a rise… in my school, it was one dude yelling “BIG BOOTY HOES” and then everyone who heard it would yell 'UP WIT IT"
good times.
How shibboleth came to mean password or dog whistle instead of an ear of wheat is from a pretty dark bible story:
And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay; Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
I think that’s because it’s a tiktok thing and the right is way better at using apps like that to brainwash people, so naturally they’ll also see the other unrelated memes and stuff
That makes sense. Those same people I know saying it all the time also send me tiktok links I never open.
It means 42. Life, universe, all that…
Kids don’t even know they’re referencing a great author.
6*7 would be the question, silly.
6-7 = -1 not 42 you silly goose.
Sure, but what do you get if you multiply six by nine?
An orgasm.
I’m not certain that’s accurate.
You don’t even math modulo 42 do you?
Modulo 43, otherwise -1 would be congruent to 41
Surprise zero indexing
Only if you read if left to right.
7-6=unity, oh it’s code for communism!
I assumed it was a why is 6 afraid of 7 thing.
Because 7 is a registered 6 offender.
In my language, “6 7” reads “six sept”, which sounds like “cis het”, a shorten form for “cisgender heterosexual”.
“my language” - this guy trying to sneak french in here without us noticing!
It was an attempt not to always emphasize the fact of being French.
But obviously, even in good faith, humility does not suit us well.
If I say I am using Plasma 6.5, people will guess I use NixOS or Arch, even if I don’t say that separately.
That’s kinda similar, except that you were much more specific.If you say something on Lemmy, people will guess you refer to Linux
You mean to tell me that the language where one says 3x20+7 to say sixty seven makes 6-7 mean something?!
Excuse me. But the French damn well have a word for sixty: soixante. And the counting keeps going normally right up to 70, which reads as Sixty Ten. That goes up to Sixty Nineteen, and THEN Four Twenties.
That’s honestly so much more cursed than I thought! I seriously thought that in French it was just pure base20 but nope!
Of course! The French language is so meaningless that sometimes things actually mean something.
Oh no! GET THEM!
crash sound, cat screeching, sacre bleu, car horn
I lost my faith in the “new word” committee for ‘Big Dictionary’.
They don’t decide what a new word is, just document usage. And if it gets used enough, well…
23 skidoo
Keep on Truckin
fnord
Wow, theres a subgenius word I haven’t heard in a long time.
Did SubGenius use it? It definitely started as Discordian.
That’s true, I forgot that as well. By the time I was seeing it in the 90s it was embedded with the Subgenus guys (which overlaps pretty heavily with Discordianism IMO) so that’s who I always associate it with. But forgot it was earlier/separate.
Know what’s funnier than 24…?
Its from rap its referring to a 1067 some guy boasting about killing someone
Yep, it’s from Doot Doot, by Skrilla, and made its way from rap, to basketball (meaning to coldly score against someone or out perform them)… And now white people are saying it thinking it just means nothing because the internet is kooky.
Hell yeah, 106.7 kroq!
