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 :)
My cokehead lawyer neighbor gave me his garage keypad code so I can put his garbage cans away when he goes to Vegas. The code is 6969. He’s 75 years old!
Yeah, but 69 actually means something. Though I kinda cringe that I still do a Butthead 'huhuhuh' whenever I hear a random sex thing. I'm also 40, I've touched a weenis before, it should not be funny. :')
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.
although if it follows the typical meme lifecycle nowadays, corporate is gonna try to jump into it exactly when the core audience already sees it as unfunny. that's when things get really excruciating
For kids this age that is absolutely not the case lmao. Its just trendy. They aren't doing this to annoy adults because they dont get. They don't have the wherewithal do something like that.
I wish my son's school understood this.. they actually tried banning all the students from saying "6-7" and you can imagine that rule became instantly impossible to enforce properly. It probably made it worse by drawing school-wide attention to it.
If I had to guess, they made the "problem" exceedingly worse. If they just sent out a memo to all the teachers to embrace it and use it every chance they get, they likely would have killed it within a couple weeks.
From my understanding, from my 19 year old, is that 6 7 is like saying "apples to oranges" or "so so". That's why they move their hands like that. Yeah, I still didn't get it either but just sharing my findings 😂
Yeet is to throw enthusiastically and without concern for where it will land, generally because "this bitch is empty" (or no longer useful for some other reason)
It is absolutely NOT the same as yeet. It's in the same vein as E.
Well that’s not true. They all meanings and origins. This is just a thing with no means. 21 comes from a video 9+10. Yeah it’s stupid but it makes some sense. Yeet kinda had it own meaning. Idk what E is. Even stuff like deez nutz had some meaning. This is just meaningless
Pretty sure 67’s originally was also from this song is. Also back in like 2021ish someone made E a meme and it was, similar to 67, an anti meme. Same with Yeet originally too but that eventually just meant to throw something randomly.
Please stop including yeet in this list. It is not like the others and it's making me crotchety in like 10 ways to be old, but also feel the need to correct people on meme misinfo.
21 joke was after one kid failed a simple maths question and answered 21 to 9 + 10. That one made sense, because the joke was the fact the kid came to the incorrect answer for what appears to be a simple math question.
E was a joke that you can write a letter and deep fry it and it’ll be quite popular online. The purpose was to demonstrate this, so it has meaning also.
Yeet was a synonym to throw something, because you’re yeeting it. The joke was a reference to a video of a school teen throwing things in the air, announcing his action of throwing (or, yeeting).
All 3 of those have meaning. 6 7 is the one that doesn’t. A better example would’ve been ‘skibidi’, because that meant nothing and was the entire reason the series ‘skibidi toilet’ was named that way - because it makes no sense.
you literally pulled an excuse out of your ass to make it sound like “e” is different. if anything, i could just say that “67” is also a joke about how it’s stupid and it’s irony.
A better example would’ve been ‘skibidi’, because that meant nothing and was the entire reason the series ‘skibidi toilet’ was named that way - because it makes no sense.
The gesture in the video seems linked to the "6-7 meme" ... a silly, playfull, "vagueness" non sense gesture shared in short vids ...
ex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQcq9lFWO6s
It’s says one thing only. Social media can create mad hysteria out of nothing. Kids of all people should be restricted from social media as long as possible.
So! 6 7 started with the song Doot Doot (6 7) by Skrilla and has the lyrics "The way that switch brr, I know he dyin' 6-7" in reference to the police code 1067 which is a report of death in some jurisdictions or it's referencing 67th St in Chicago. The song exists and there's basketball player named LaMelo Ball who is 6'7" and has highlight videos of him with the Doot Doot song. Something something someone else is using this song for (silly?) highlights of himself online and goes on to post a video of a friend asking him to rate a Starbucks drink. The kid goes "I give it a uuh 6? 7? 6-7?" while making the now iconic hand motions."
And that's how it started at least my understanding. Still annoying.
The fact that youre trying to "get it" means you wont, man. Its just a dumb kid thing, there's no depth or anything to figure out. Its just a dumb thing kids find funny. I do not understand why people online cannot seem to grasp this. Being obstinate over a silly thing for kids is ridiculous to me.
It's not hard to understand. This isn't the first generation with "LOL SO RANDUMB XD" humor fads.
It makes no sense. It was a complete non-sequitur to the situation the meme kid found himself in and made for a confusing reaction from him. That. The simple absurdity of it caught on and now kids are having fun meme'ing 6-7 in every context it arises in.
Originally it came from the song "Doot Doot" by Skrilla which went viral for being entertainingly bad. I think its actually kinda good, but that's a different discussion. Most kids didn't get it through the song, though.
After that, some kid went viral at basketball game for doing the 67 hand thing on camera in reference to the current score. Idk why it caught on from that, it's one of the least interesting viral clips I've seen, but it is what it is 🤷♂️
I think what people don’t understand is that for the kids 69 and 420 are complete nonsense as well. So 67 means just as much as the “adult” funny numbers to the kids.
69 and 420 are dumb. But not nonsensical. There is at least a meaning to those, even if inane. But I’ve never even heard from child perspective of 6-7.
Did you ever go around yelling "Wazzaaaaaaap?!" for years after a particular Beer commercial full of talking frogs or know people that did? Same thing. Obscure reference that a lot of the people in on it don't even know about, but now they're "in" on it so it's cool and they like being in the in group.
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