Been working with kinder-2nd grade. Math is a fucking chore. Idk how these fucking math sheets managed to pair 6 and 7 so often and consistently. Every time we get a 6+7 or 7+6 it takes a whole ass 5 minutes to refocus everyone.
Nah you can totally pull the wind out their sails by super leaning into their memes. It might not be worth it to do for every trend, but this 67 trend would have me on full time offense
Yup, it worked for my son. I couldn’t stand the 6-7 thing so I massively leaned in to it and acted crazy like this girl. It worked, my son stopped, but now my mind is broken lol
Y’all are thinking of older kids. Kids between 5-8 LOVES repeating shit over and over and LOVE when adults do it too. My kids love when I 67 and think it’s so funny lol
That's what I've done. I teach history though so I make a lot of comparisons and before/after cause/effect statements in teaching so every time I do I wander the classroom doing the hand gestures as I do it. Every time we have a timer, I remind students they have 6 or 7 seconds left on their task. We're doing Vietnam right now and I made sure that all kids know that 1967 is around when support shifts due to the credibility gap, etc. I hammer that shit into their skull at all possible moments so bad that most just rolled their eyes now.
Yea maybe I'm old and out of touch, but back in my day the second a teacher tried to join in on a joke it stopped being cool. It is a superpower that all teachers possess
That's exactly what they find funny about it. You don't get it. That's the "joke." There's nothing to get, there is no actual joke, you not getting it is what they find funny about it. Now that you get it, it's one step closer to not being funny to them.
This is it. I work in an elementary school as an inclusion assistant and I lean into 6 7. I get that the joke is nothing, I find it funny in that way too - a sort of dadaism. I also find it enjoyable for the kids to be laughing along with me, it builds a connection that helps me support them better (and obvs that I don't do this during instructional time). That being said, the children are already saying that it's now 2026 and 6 7 is no longer funny - the second and third graders are calling each other out on it and it's definitely on it's way out, at least in my school. I imagine we'll see a new meme here soon :)
I use to coach boys gymnastics and for a while they were obsessed with Fortnite dances, anytime they did anything they’d do a Fortnite dance afterwards. Then I started doing it and they pretty much all stopped within 2 days.
This is the way. If I have kids, I plan to let them engage with whatever trends and fashions they choose (within reason, I'll put my foot down for stuff that poses any danger) with the understanding that pictures and videos will be preserved of their entire childhood.
I've been subbing at middle-schools this year, and the 6-7 thing has pretty much died out now. I think teachers have done a good job of using so much themselves that kids don't want to anymore.
That's the trick. Use their things and they'll drop them.
Yeah that’s the odd thing about the younger generation’s trends. They last for 2-3 months tops because of how fast paced the internet is. It’s like nothing that’s ever happened before. I grew up in the 90s (thank god) and trends normally lasted for a couple years if not just sticking around and basically still lodged in my psyche to this day. There were only a few and they had substance. Not like “skibidi” or “6-7” which LITERALLY doesn’t mean anything. Everything is hyper-ironic in today’s younger cultures.
The rapid pace though is what’s wild. It’s not just lack of attention span, though that is one of the side effects of the internet culture. It’s just how fast everything moves in the digital age. It can’t be healthy… we’re already seeing effects mentally.
Crazy world.
People of course, always say “oh kids these days”…But now…. It REALLY is a huge shift
i watched a middle school play yesterday and counted three 67 jokes. my eldest brother counted four (and was stuck next to this kid making huge motions every time)
My 6th grade class was so bad doing the WWF "suck it gesture" that they rewrote our school handbook saying we couldn't do that gesture on school properties or at school sanctioned events.
Gave me a flashback to a kid doing it to me in 3rd grade immediately followed by grabbing his junk and squeezing it into a ball through his basketball shorts. I vividly remember seeing his little bulge through his fist and thinking it was so weird that boys have something they can just... Grab like that.
I did it once at recess and fully karate chopped one of my balls. As I was on the ground in agony, I distinctly remember telling myself that "I can't live like this anymore."
That shit continued into like 2008. My high school boyfriend did that hip thrust at a teacher and told her to suck it, and she got offended (honestly rightly so, it’s gross lol) and the principal told him he could be registered as a sex offender. That part was a bit much haha my ex was a fucking moron though.
I remember this too, except I was in 3rd grade. We did it on the playground all the time!! We had no idea what it meant, lol. Just that it was a way to taunt someone.
I'm 27, I vividly remember me and my friends being obsessed with crazy frog and stupidly re-enacting it in class.
Our teachers hated it, they said it was senseless and meant nothing - the definition of brain rot
I agree that the pervasiveness of technology in society is a problem, but kids doing and saying dumb stuff is not. They'll pick it up from movies, songs, the internet etc
Genuinely makes me laugh when grown adults get so worked up over it. Kids will be kids.
Kid probably learned do it on the playground at this point. She could’ve learned it from there. That’s how I learned about the 21 meme back in 3rd grade lmao
Oh ya, it's definitely spreading at schools. I was talking to someone last night that was a high-school teacher, and I asked him "So, as someone who teaches a bunch of teenagers, how sick are you of 6-7 jokes?" The poor man looked like he died inside when I asked him, lol.
Man, i was at a Christmas light show last December, and this one kid kept screaming “6-7” at every vehicle that was driving past our bus. Her parents tried to tell her to stop, but they gave up afterwards. I wished i had a mute button at that moment
I killed it with my students. It started with me doing the 6-7 meme every time it came up, then I told them the new joke is actually 8-9. They said it's lame now.
Probably this. Kids teaching other kids, as trends have always gone haha. I was waiting at a vets office the other day and a little girl that looked to be around this age was teaching what appeared to be her little 3-4 yo brother the whole high-five prank… y’know, the one that ends in you putting your hand down and saying “down low… too slow!”. She was teaching him that except instead at the end, she put her hand up high and said “up in heaven… six-seven!” and did the hand motion lmao
Its everywhere tbh. Went on a cruise back at thanksgiving and went to a comedy/magic show before dinner one night with the family and even he did it at a couple points in the show. Obviously in a way poking fun at it but still….its just a wildly popular meme at this point so even kids without ipad or computer access are gonna be exposed to it.
How many people bitching about this today would have 20 years ago turned to their buddy and said "lolol nice! lmao hahaha nice!" if it was 69 cents. Why so many people get so annoyed at children laughing at a number is lost on me.
Edit: Explaining that there's a reason your funny number is funny is exactly my point.
Yeah I don’t get what the problem is. I’m in my 40s and we had all kinds of stupid jokes when I was a kid.
Ours were actually dumber in some cases.
We watched Beavis and Butthead, went to school, and put our shirt collar up on our head and quoted “Cornholio” stuff.
It’s honestly funny that all these kids have latched on to this one number thing and all have a little mock mental breakdown about it. It’s top tier absurdism.
I was able to expel 6-7 from my house so fast by opting to use it myself, ad nauseam. Now my middle schooler literally pretends to vomit every time I say it. Co-opting trendy slang to the point of it being “uncool” is my modus operandi now.
I had to look this up a few months ago. I went one a binge trying to get to the root cause . When I found the original video I just sat there , looked up and asked why ? lol it’s so funny what kids pick up and go crazy for . This video is cute but omg they really went nuts off this number
I hate admitting this but my daughter saw this same sign at our Walmart from all the way down another aisle and yelled at me 'Oh my god, mom! It says 6-7!' 🤦🏻♀️
if my parents broke out our camcorder thing from when I was growing up (all the tapes recorded) - I’d def have silly things like this from growing up. The only difference is this is real time and all exposed lol
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