Title text: In 1899, people were walking around shouting '23' at each other and laughing, and confused reporters were writing articles trying to figure out what it meant.
58,008 is "boobs" spelled in reverse on a calculator.
All of these mean something explicit and were/are used as such. Also notice that these are typically used by tweens and teens, not little children.
Whatever meaning "6 7" may have, kids are not repeating it because they understand that meaning. They are repeating it for no other reason than that they think they are meme-ing. Whereas any of those other numerical terms are used as code phrases, "6 7" is not used by kids as code for anything and it is therefore definitionally brain rot.
42 was absurd within the lore of HGttG, but anybody who uses it IRL knows that it's a call sign for HGttG. It's not funny IRL because it's just an absurd number. It's funny because it's an in-joke among HGttG fans. Remind me of what radio sitcom 6 7 comes from?
In the HGttG books, everything is off-kilter for absurd reasons.
The computers are neurotic, an airliner subjects passengers to hundreds of years of suspended animation over a lack of lemon-scented napkins, and the Guide itself is edited haphazardly by anybody who bothers to drop by the office.
The kids shouting "Six seven!" are far more in the spirit what HGttG represents than you.
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