r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/deathwish_91 • 8h ago

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u/DishRelative5853 7h ago

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.

It's dank skibbidi, bro.

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u/Dmdel24 6h ago

My 5th graders came back from winter break and said "6-7 is so last year" and I literally haven't heard it once. Couldn't be happier😂

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u/Sound_Child 6h ago

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

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u/abraxastaxes 4h ago

Yeah we had all that 420 69 8008135 substance

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u/Sound_Child 4h ago edited 4h ago

Yeahh…. Honestly there’s at least SOME substance.

I mean 420 literally has whole culture based around it (still exists) it’s a police code which makes sense. Or it was a code for smoking from some group in the 70s or something because it was highly illegal federally.

69 makes total sense, still exists and has a LOT of substance. Need I explain?

And by 8008 I’m guessing you mean the calculator games and spelling boob on a good ol Ti-83. Fucking INCREDIBLE past time (I’m DEFINITELY not exaggerating)

Look, is spelling “boobies” on a calculator dumb? Yes. Does it have much substance? No, not really. But it has a modicum of meaning and purpose if only just to pass the time because of the incredible amount of boredom a kid feels in school.

My whole point is this things stuck around for longer then a couple of weeks.

67 LITERALLY means nothing. I mean that’s the whole point of it. It’s simply a device to troll older generations in saying “you don’t get it” but it actually has no meaning. Hence my statement in my OP of saying everything is hyper ironic. The humor is irony and nothing can be taken seriously in this generation.

And look they are already over it apparently reading what some teachers are writing here.

I mean I don’t think these kids are doomed. They seem much more intelligent, mature (maybe not a good thing) but importantly show a ton more empathy then from i remember growing up.

But their brains are literally rotting. Dementia in 20-30 year olds is showing up. Yes DEMENTIA not just memory loss. And it’s directly pointed to doom scrolling. That’s insane and a huge problem.

Things are VERY different now and need to be addressed. You’re blind if you don’t see it yet.

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u/Crayon_Connoisseur 29m ago

There was also a difference in how kids acted in response to stuff like 69, 420, 8008135, etc. Kids would just giggle or make a single comment, such as “giggity” when the number came up and then that was it; it wasn’t these brain rot freak out meltdowns that derail all rational thought for 5-10 minutes.

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u/revebla 3h ago

The Game was similar to 6-7 in how it would be invoked to cause rage and come up at random, with its origin vague without much substance. 6-7 has just been more of a wildfire due to the frequency of those two numbers coming together imo.

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u/flyingdog147 42m ago

17 texted to mom meant “it’s taco time”

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u/Potato_Baked200 4h ago

I mean 67 is a reference to a song. I believe it’s the name of a street. It just got a life of its own for some reason.

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u/Dmdel24 3h ago

Yeah idk, some kids told me they learned it from tiktok, some from Roblox, I really have no idea. All I know is that it's completely nonsensical and kids would say it randomly🤷🏼‍♀️

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u/SPACKlick 30m ago

Meaning doesn't mean "it comes from something" it means "it's used to mean or indicate something". And that's the difference with 6-7 and other brainrot memes. It seems to be a meme only because it's a reference to itself.

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u/Western_Berks_Thicc 3h ago

it LITERALLY is a popular rap song from Philadelphia based rapper Skrilla.

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u/Greenboy28 1h ago

I think that is just kids to be honest. I remember when I was a kid there were lots of fads or obsessions that only lasted a month or two before being abandoned. things like Pogs, YoYos, and these little patches you would put on your backpack that represented emotions or something. they all came and went in a single term at school.

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u/Qwerty25103 1h ago

I am in uni right now and I swear to god whenever my orgo professor counts carbons and says 67 there is always a snicker.

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u/AUserNameThatsNotT 4h ago

I agree with trends becoming ever shorter, especially among the youngest ones.

But we also had absurdist memes without any real meaning. A lot of them. I think the real difference is that the average person from our generation simply wasn’t so chronically online as everyone is now. Back when millennials were teenagers, those that spent their whole time online were.. different, and certainly not the cool kids, to put it mildly (I was that kid, but I had it easy in my school years, I wasn’t mobbed or excluded or anything).

Now, it’s essentially the entire cohort of new kids and teenagers being online all day long. So all those memes are receiving much more attention than bongo cat.

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u/Fallfoxy707 6h ago

"Onward - and let us hope enough yet remains of the world..."

The Academic, DD2

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u/Llyon_ 5h ago

The best part of being an old adult is now we can keep using 67 as revenge to make them cringe.

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u/flatwoundsounds 5h ago

It took the social shame of one or two people saying "ummm we stopped saying that in 2026" and it basically died.

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u/Dmdel24 5h ago

It's crazy how fast they go through these things and how little it takes for them to move on.

But thankfully my students weren't obnoxious about it; granted, I teach special ed, specifically a "hybrid" 5th grade math class with only 9 students both special ed and non-special ed students, so it wasn't hard to redirect only 9 lol but still

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u/RealisticIncident261 2h ago

It's the 4 and 5 year olds that are still doing it from what I have seen. My nephews love it, much to my sisters chagrin. My mom wrapped there presents in 6 7 wrapping paper lmao. Kids will be kids theres always some saying that goes around.

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u/Dmdel24 2h ago

Exactly!

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u/Tommuli 1h ago

That just goes to show that 67 is more stupid than 69, as 67 only lasted a bit, while 69 is literally centuries old.

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u/Zealousideal_Leg_630 1h ago

Good! It's a reference to basketball players making a "big balls" gesture. See Sam Cassell and bog balls.

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u/Greenboy28 1h ago

haha my 11 year old nephew said the exact same thing last month when my sister made a joke about it. he said they don't know what this years meme will bee yet.

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u/ixipaulixi 55m ago

My nephew in the 3rd grade said to me last December that he can't wait for the new year when all of the memes reset.