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EnergizedLib

(2,896 posts)
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 12:16 PM Oct 21

6-7 is really the dumbest meme I can think of

I turn 34 in two days, and by definition, I’m a millennial, but throughout my life, I’ve had characteristics that might be ascribed to stereotypical boomers. Despite being an ultra lefty liberal who wants to see radical change in government and policy, I roll my eyes at certain changes in society or culture or what is in.

One of the high school sports teams I covered first brought the 6-7 thing to me and asked me to do the 6-7 gesture, and I so I went along with one time, and only one time with the gesture asking what this 6-7 thing is.

Then South Park touched up on it last week, and Cartman finding it the funniest thing in the world.

Then I did more research. It’s from a song by a rapper named Skrilla (and it’s not even a song I like. I don’t care for rap, but every once in a great while, there’s a rap song I do like, usually if it’s on a video game I play).

But this track doesn’t sound like much of a track at all. Then the song blew up on TikTok with a video referencing LaMelo Ball highlights, and some kid at an AAU basketball said ‘6-7!’ and everyone went wild.

Apparently, it’s the big thing at school, if teachers here agree. And a kid at an event when I worked a triple header on Saturday, asked if the game I was covering started at six or seven, which I said wasn’t funny.

It isn’t even that I simply find it not funny, because everybody has different senses of humor.

It simply does not make sense. I don’t get it.

When I was a teenager in the 2000s, I would wonder how cultured, how advanced and civilized our society would be in the 2020s.

Well, we’re in the 2020s, and somehow, ‘6-7!’ is all the rage.

I’ll take my ‘60s music and so many other stuff old school and vintage, please.

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6-7 is really the dumbest meme I can think of (Original Post) EnergizedLib Oct 21 OP
Agreed -- i would have more respect for fart jokes than this whole 6-7 thing JT45242 Oct 21 #1
Let's see. You're 33 and a half. If you double that, you get ... Midnight Writer Oct 21 #2
Yes, I know I'm halfway to being a senior citizen EnergizedLib Oct 21 #3
Too clever! True Dough Oct 21 #17
I was so surprised that the funny thing South Park made up FullySupportDems Oct 21 #4
Oh, Idiocracy EnergizedLib Oct 21 #6
It's got electrolytes... FullySupportDems Oct 21 #11
America's Civil War SomedayKindaLove Oct 21 #12
Even after the extended explanation in the OP, I still have no idea what 6-7 means/signifies AZJonnie Oct 21 #5
I mean, I know its origins EnergizedLib Oct 21 #7
So all we know is it's in some song by Skrilla, but not what it actually signifies? AZJonnie Oct 21 #8
And here is the 'song' EnergizedLib Oct 21 #9
I fear for mankind Skittles Oct 21 #16
I think flogging a dumb meme was kinda the point EYESORE 9001 Oct 21 #10
Next thing you know they'll all be saying 'mebs'. nt eppur_se_muova Oct 21 #13
Why was 6 afraid of 7? Because seven ate nine. comradebillyboy Oct 21 #14
I Hear It All The Time ProfessorGAC Oct 21 #15
And I remember the Harlem Shake in college EnergizedLib Oct 21 #18
Makes me think of 25 or 6 2 4. Tactical Peek Oct 25 #19
It's their world. You're just living in it. Get used to it. Iggo Oct 25 #20

JT45242

(3,754 posts)
1. Agreed -- i would have more respect for fart jokes than this whole 6-7 thing
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 12:22 PM
Oct 21

I have a tangential boss (late 40s early 50s) who has school age children and likes it and Lebubu. (She has 2 of those freakazoid ugly things behind her on a shelf that you can see in meetings.

I am wondering how I work for people less mature than the 16 year olds that I taught for 20 years.

EnergizedLib

(2,896 posts)
3. Yes, I know I'm halfway to being a senior citizen
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 12:26 PM
Oct 21

It’s scary.

But some things I could not find funny and it still makes sense, even if it’s not my thing.

This thing makes no sense at all.

FullySupportDems

(390 posts)
4. I was so surprised that the funny thing South Park made up
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 12:27 PM
Oct 21

Is a real thing. I said No, you're joking. Right?

To me it whispers conformity. Go along, do what you're told. Don't stand out. Do this stupid thing, just because everyone else is doing it. Now do the next stupid thing. Accept doing stupid things as a culture.

Maybe it's just me. I watched Idiocracy again last night. How can it be almost 20 years old???

SomedayKindaLove

(1,167 posts)
12. America's Civil War
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 01:28 PM
Oct 21

Won’t be between

North vs South
Blue vs Red
Homo Sapien vs MAGA

It will be the

SIX DASH SEVEN vs 6-7 vs 6,7

AZJonnie

(2,331 posts)
5. Even after the extended explanation in the OP, I still have no idea what 6-7 means/signifies
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 12:27 PM
Oct 21

Maybe I need more caffeine?

EnergizedLib

(2,896 posts)
7. I mean, I know its origins
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 12:29 PM
Oct 21

But I fail to see what makes it funny or why younger people go crazy over it.

AZJonnie

(2,331 posts)
8. So all we know is it's in some song by Skrilla, but not what it actually signifies?
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 12:36 PM
Oct 21

So I went to AI lol ...

Yes, the "6-7 thing" is a viral Gen Alpha meme that became hugely popular in 2024-2025, and South Park just featured it prominently in their Season 28 premiere episode "Twisted Christian" that aired on October 15, 2025.​

What is the 6-7 Meme?
The phrase "6-7" (pronounced "six seven" ) originated from rapper Skrilla's December 2024 song "Doot Doot (6-7)" where he raps "6-7, I just bipped right on the highway". The key thing is that it has no actual meaning - it's completely nonsensical.​

How It Spread
The meme exploded on TikTok with over 2 million videos tagged #67. It became associated with NBA player LaMelo Ball (who is 6'7" tall) through sports highlight reels, and gained massive traction after a viral video of an overly enthusiastic kid yelling "6-7!" at a basketball game while doing hand gestures.​

Why Kids Love It
Generation Alpha (kids under 14) have latched onto this phrase as a way to express "meaninglessness, anxieties and stimulation overload". Teachers across the country report students chanting it in hallways and classrooms, often just to annoy adults or avoid answering questions. Some schools have even banned saying it.​

South Park's Take
In the Season 28 premiere, South Park Elementary kids become obsessed with the 6-7 meme, with Cartman becoming so fixated he vomits every time he says it. The episode brings in Peter Thiel to investigate, thinking it's some kind of "satanic numerology" cult, perfectly satirizing how adults overreact to meaningless internet trends.​

The show uses it to mock both the absurdity of viral fads and conspiracy theories about them.​

Skittles

(168,698 posts)
16. I fear for mankind
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 07:35 PM
Oct 21

it just all sounds ridiculous, although I do sympathize with kids' "meaninglessness, anxieties and stimulation overload" - I am ever so grateful I got to experience life before the internet.........

EYESORE 9001

(29,318 posts)
10. I think flogging a dumb meme was kinda the point
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 12:43 PM
Oct 21

The South Park guys aren’t known for foisting cultural fads or memes on their viewers, so, IMO, it was done ironically.

ProfessorGAC

(75,279 posts)
15. I Hear It All The Time
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 05:32 PM
Oct 21

Not at the HS level but the junior high level, except....
....in minority dominated schools.
Despite it being rooted in rap, it's the white dominant schools where I hear it constantly.
Since I knew the origins & the meme, I've made no secret to the kids that I think it's stupid.

EnergizedLib

(2,896 posts)
18. And I remember the Harlem Shake in college
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 09:13 PM
Oct 21

And I thought that was dumb.

It had nothing on this. I saw it advertised on Fallon during the Rockets/Thunder game.

Tactical Peek

(1,378 posts)
19. Makes me think of 25 or 6 2 4.
Sat Oct 25, 2025, 09:14 AM
Oct 25
"25 or 6 to 4" is a song written by American musician Robert Lamm, one of the founding members of the band Chicago. It was recorded in August 1969 for their second album, Chicago, with Peter Cetera on lead vocals,[1] and released as a single in June 1970.
Composition

In a 2013 interview, Robert Lamm said he composed "25 or 6 to 4" on a 12-string guitar with only 10 strings. According to Lamm, "It didn't have the two low Es." He wrote the lyrics in one day. The band first rehearsed the song at the Whisky a Go Go.[2]

Lamm said the song is about trying to write a song in the middle of the night. The song's title is the time at which the song is set: 25 or 26 minutes before 4 a.m., phrased as, "twenty-five or [twenty-]six [minutes] to four [o’clock]," (i.e. 03:35 or 03:34).[3][4] Because of the unique phrasing of the song's title, "25 or 6 to 4" has been interpreted to mean everything from a quantity of illicit drugs to the name of a famous person in code.[5]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25_or_6_to_4

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