Do u know what "6 7" means

hellz yeah, six seven bruh

Yes but only because I looked it up yesterday.

I voted yes but my understanding is that it doesn't really mean anything? Or at least that's what this article I read the other day said.

yeah, it's just some phonetic stim or something

Poll needs an "I don't have kids" option.

this mf said Do u know what "6 7" means

I don't even know what "77" means.

Look, I'm just glad it's not 69 any more. My (primary school age) kids have openly wondered what that was all about.

I dunno but when I shout it at my kids it freaks them out so winning

yeah, it's just some phonetic stim or something

― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, October 23, 2025 5:59 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

My current theory on this stuff is that kids naturally want to express themselves verbally but haven't yet developed certain methods of articulation. For 12 year olds its like the logical and natural midpoint between a baby babbling and an adult bloviating. It's the modern equivalent of "no soap radio" or "that's what she said." People love to point to this and "brainrot" as proof that this generation is "cooked" but I think it's really cool that they've turned the act of using slang itself into a surreal, disorienting and pointless exercise. It's like the kids saw the natural progression of things like "groovy" or "radical" or "phat" as having a shelflife and immediately fast-forwarded them to irrelevancy. It's like a viral dada experience and everyone except public school teachers should be chill with it

it’s a song

i think it has an origin in some song, but has moved on from that to...???

lol this reminds me of when my wife drove our younger son and a friend somewhere a few years back and reported that the entire backseat conversation was conducted in variations on "sigma" and "skibidi."

well isn't there some theory that basically all slang originates from teenage girls and filters up?

im a father of 12 y/o and a public school teacher and i tell alla them to shut up with this nonsense

My kids say this all the time, just like all the other kids everywhere I guess.

This video is a great explainer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laZpTO7IFtA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgfHt52vys8

Explainer videos for clueless adults industry

last week I was teaching a novel with a key scene spanning pp 66-68 and avoided saying the number just to fuck with em

I’ve got a 14 year old so, yeah, I’ve been hearing this for months and months now. I *thought* I knew the origin, my son showed me the basketball player interview that pushed it into a meme, but didn’t know it originated from a rap song before that until I read the pitchfork article today.

I’ve got a 14 year old so, yeah, I’ve been hearing this for months and months now. I *thought* I knew the origin, my son showed me the basketball player interview that pushed it into a meme, but didn’t know it originated from a rap song before that until I read the pitchfork article today.

Sorry, got an error with my first post and didn’t think it went.

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— Ethel Cain Data (@ethelcaindata) August 7, 2025

we want to do our due diligence, we want to be sure that we understand where things come from, it simply won't do to complacently accept the attributions and folk etymologies that glide in and out of our feed, no, it won't do, and so we roll up our sleeves and we begin to peel back the layers, searching hard this time for the real origins, wading deeper into a foggy prehistory, echoes of an echo, parting the brush and the weedy vegetation, further and further until we emerge in a clearing and, down at its far end, behold a glimmering pond that beckons to us and, leaning over its edge, we gaze down into it and see something that startles us: it is our own face, only slightly older, slightly more tired now, breathing out two words that disappear almost instantly into the thin and faintly rancid air: "six, seven"

no kids here to interrogate, but it sounds to me like kids having fun by mystifying adults and each other. it's a huge game of 'pretend' where the pretense is that six-seven has some deeper meaning known only to the kids. once they understand it's just taking the piss on anyone who reacts to it, including other kids who haven't figured it out, they gleefully escalate the mystification.

The languagejones video CAAL posted upthread is the best explainer. He's a great etymology nerd.

I had not heard this stupid utterance at all, weirdly, til after I saw that video about a week ago and now its everwhere. Thankfully, our household kids are not brocolli-headed nitwits so they wouldnt bother.

the next stage in the life cycle would be some creative kid(s) inventing an arcane, probably transgressive, meaning for six-seven that has no actual connection to anything. this new 'explanation' would spread quickly, first among the kids (who naturally wondered if maybe there really was some hidden transgressive meaning they were just too unsophisticated to see), then the new meaning would leak to the adults, who will sternly try to quash it.

The best way to qaush this shit is to adopt it. Use all the most up to date slang and use it properly, they hate that.

I thought I was immune to this until I picked my 7 year old up from a birthday party. 2 kids wouldn't stop saying "6 7...not eleven" (this shit is jazz now, man). And it sounded like they were saying "6 7...9/11". I was trying to make boring conversation with parents I didnt know on behalf of my child's playdate prospects, and it was throwing me off because I kept hearing "9/11". I nearly lost my shit.

its funny I hear a lot of people saying "yeah this is like how we all said 69" but that at least was a naughty sex thing with this a big part of the joke seems to be nobody knowing what it means which I think means our children have evolved to understand shitposting

it means 23 skidoo, yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVV2_HxWZ4w

https://i.discogs.com/uMSbBEQizRONIi9OF_hBMLbkteO6_Tducnvp4BRzZjw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:593/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIxMTky/ODMtMTM0NTIwNjUx/MC04NDE2LmpwZWc.jpeg

time for a comeback https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0UpsbZNlrI

The best way to qaush this shit is to adopt it. Use all the most up to date slang and use it properly, they hate that.

This is so otm it's hilarious. My older kid doesn't speak in gen z slang, but my (not that) younger one does, and when we make her face the mirror she gets this immediate glimmer of self-awareness and embarrassment and reverts to normal slang.

The 6-7 nonsense seems most disruptive in school settings, where just its passing mention from a teacher or professors sets off relentless giggling. It's soooooo dumb, because it's utter nonsense, just the verbal embodiment of a meme. Or maybe the meme equivalent of crypto? Just totally invented and assigned a value as slang currency.

geezers need excitement

These lot were one of those unavoidable support bands in London around the mid-90s, this was their "hit". Never the best of bands - in fact closer to the worst of bands. Good to see it paid off for them in the end though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HamXskn9wA

Here's the debut, they only did 3 7" then vanished never to be heard from again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrBEdqaQygc

it's a huge game of 'pretend' where the pretense is that six-seven has some deeper meaning known only to the kids. once they understand it's just taking the piss on anyone who reacts to it

Well done to whichever kid convinced Aimless that “taking the piss on” was slang with some meaning.

the thing about all this tween slang is that no matter where it originates, it usually is popularized by a Youtube guy or through a bijillion TikToks. My kid had no idea what Sigma meant, Gyat, but he and his friends used them all the time. They say it because cool people say it.

it is interesting how this stuff now spreads around the world in a matter of days, while the slang I used in the 80s was either specific to my local area or even just my friend group.

My son just turned 9 (today!) and does this a lot. I’ve also been catching him doing a lot of poses in the mirror lately. This age is tough I just want to clown on him so bad but I can’t

He’s already a decent rapper tho

This stuff reminds me of an episode of Family Ties where Jennifer hangs out with the cool kids and starts speaking in valley girl slang. She leaves a note for her parents so peppered with slang that they think it's in code, and try reading every three words or something, and the note comes out "like, for sure, like, OK, like ..."

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/15/style/grunge-a-success-story.html
https://archive.is/MbVrq

The following were in the Times lexicon:

bloated, big bag of bloatation – drunk
bound-and-hagged – staying home on Friday or Saturday night
cob nobbler – loser
dish – desirable guy
fuzz – heavy wool sweaters
harsh realm – bummer
kickers – heavy boots
lamestain – uncool person
plats – platform shoes
rock on – a happy goodbye
score – great
swingin' on the flippity-flop – hanging out
tom-tom club – uncool outsiders
wack slacks – old ripped jeans

Jasper had also offered tuna platter ("a hot date"), and regretted that it had not appeared in the article.[2][9]

swingin' on the flippity-flop

I still say this all the time.

Aw shit, the tom tom club is here.

Ymmv but I mean 86 47 when I say 6 7

NB that Jasper, who improvised the fake grunge lexicon, later became and has long remained the CEO of Sub Pop.

And of course "CEO" is slang for "Tasty sandwich"

gyatt is the only one I get angry about because it was very much something white kids stole from AAVE and drastically changed its meaning and it's just outright misogyny. people shout 'gyatt' at women on the street

NB: JPoneman had laid Megan off earlier that week because of the WHAT PART OF WE HAVE NO MONEY DO YOU UNDERSTAND? era.

still mad that cancelled started to mean something other than quoting tom cruise “I’ve cancelled that in my area”

“You’ve Been Cancelled” came out when Cruise was seven years old.

my wife teaches 5th graders so yes I know what this is though I wish I didn't

The 6 7 neme or Tom Cruise?

The 6 7 neme or Tom Cruise?

double post plus "neme" I'm going back to bed

As I 51 year old I have no idea what 6 7 means, but I find it hilarious that the two 23 year olds in the office have no idea either. For one of them particularly I think it might be their first experience of "oh wait am I old now?".

As a 51 year old

I teach 17yr old so aye, I know what it is. I *did* the thing in front of a class and they a) lost their minds b) clearly wanted to die from cringe.

I'm not really any the wiser, though. I've asked for explanations, and the closest I get with this stuff is, somehow, certain things just stick and grow through repetition, like cultural tics.

Like 'skibidi', 6 7 is one of those words/phrases that started out with a specific meaning or small set of meanings but it now just means whatever. When I was an older teenager, locally we used the phrase 'fashion victim'. It originally started off because someone I knew paid a ridiculous amount of money for a rather ordinary looking denim jacket. One of his immediate friends started calling him a fashion victim. It became a phrase to apply to anyone who was taking 'too much' time/money over their appearance, particularly wrt clothes. But quickly it became a non-specific insult between friends, then it generalised into something people said in all kinds of situations. Like I'd be walking down the street and someone would drive past in a car and shout out of the window "YO, FASHION VICTIM!!!" as a greeting. Phrases whose meaning generalises tend to fall out of usage because what use is language if it's precision falls below a useful level? I'm pretty sure children and teenagers don't say "skibidi" any more except to mock adults who are trying to be cool by attempting to understand what children and teenagers are saying.

The Gen Z slang that throws me off the most are words that mean something similar yet pretty different from when I was young. Like, "emo" actually means closer to what I think of as "Goth." For that matter, once I was working with someone on something, and we were talking about music, and she mentioned how her brother was really into emo. Now, emo is a tough one to nail down, even from my perspective, covering everything from Rites of Spring to Jimmy Eat World to, I dunno, Turnstile (?; "post-hardcore" is also pretty slippery), but she cited *Slipknot* as an emo example. Maybe because they wear masks and make scary music she was using emo in the more contemporary Goth sense?

We were trying to get my daughter to explain the difference between NPC and iirc maybe bot, and it was such a subtle distinction I just couldn't understand it. She recently taught us about "performative males."

Didn’t NPC start as a slang term during gamergate? It was used to mean people who did not think for themselves but just went along with whatever the current PC consensus was. I don’t know if it has transformed since though.

voted "no" bc i have nfi what 6 7 is but performative males are no mystery!!

maybe the kids are inoculating themselves against the Pontypool brain virus

“Performative male” is horrible. What happened to “hipster”?

Where have all the Passionate Millennials Males gone
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https://bsky.app/profile/samueldg.bsky.social/post/3m44bnwxv4s27

That TikTok has almost 3m likes and brands Pringles to JBL audio have commented, so “6 7”has definitely peaked meaning it will be over soon enough.

that's peak goated sigma unc

https://www.tiktok.com/@earthkenansalazar/video/7536642976995478797

i like using 'npc' from time to time, in spite of the fact that it's video game jargon which i otherwise don't like, and now i learn it comes out of gamergate? my partner and i have our own personal meaning attached to it. basically people with completely flattened interior worlds with whom you can't have anything but a surface conversation. they are a role incarnate. 'default people'. mormons.

i've literally never heard of 6 7 before this thread and it's a wild read lol. fuckin kids.

Love it when the academics get involved:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517231172422

The acronym ‘NPC’ originates from videogame culture, where it refers to computer-controlled drones whose behaviour is dictated by their programming. By 2018 the term had gained traction within right-wing subcultural spaces as shorthand for individuals apparently incapable of thinking for themselves. By the autumn of 2018, these spaces were awash with NPC memes accusing liberals and leftists of uncritically accepting progressive doxa and parroting left-wing catchphrases. In mid-October, with midterm elections looming in the US, Twitter banned over 1000 NPC roleplay accounts created by supporters of Donald Trump, citing concerns over disinformation. This event was much discussed both within right-wing subcultural spaces and by mainstream media outlets, serving as an occasion to reassess the political effects of digital media in general and reactionary memes in particular.

I hate this use of "NPC" because:

1. It's straight-up dehumanization, which is never great
2. It's from 4chan/gamergate, and fuck everything from 4chan and gamergate

Conversation in class yesterday:

Student: I think he's actually just 6'6" - but it's waaaay funnier to say he's 6'7"!
Me: You know, I've heard 6-7 so much I'm actually starting to find it funny.
Student #2: That's what happened to me! Everyone uses it! My grandma uses it!
Student #3: Your grandma uses it? How old's your grandma?
Student #2: SIXTY-SEVEN!
Whole class cracks up.

is NPC really "from gamergate" or just from gamers?

"npc" predates videogames... it comes from tabletop role-playing games.

(obviously you're all otm regarding it's derogatory use.)

On March 22nd, 2023, an 11-year-old boy from Mill Creek, Washington was allegedly chased and stabbed by a 29-year-old man named Joshua David Pence after he was called an NPC by the child and his friend. The event and the usage of the slang term NPC in the real world sparked many memes and reactions about the alleged non-fatal assault, particularly when media coverage and online discourse spiked around it in mid-April 2023.

https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-the-year-2025/

When I was in high school we managed to make shouting “ FUTON!” into a thing very similar to this current 6 7 thing among a surprisingly large subset of the students, so I feel like I get this even though I don’t really

The best way to qaush this shit is to adopt it. Use all the most up to date slang and use it properly, they hate that.

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, October 23, 2025 8:17 PM (one week ago)

this is legitimately one of my favorite things about being old - i _can_ be cringe. and yeah, it is a cultural shibboleth. not only does it mean "23 skidoo" or "what a shocking bad hat", when _i_ use that phrase it becomes identical to those phrases.

it is interesting how this stuff now spreads around the world in a matter of days, while the slang I used in the 80s was either specific to my local area or even just my friend group.

― sent a message through the Internet but it rejected (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, October 24, 2025 8:09 AM (one week ago)

that tom scott guy did a video about "jingle bells, batman smells", which used to, in the UK, have a lot of regional variations, all of which were quashed when an early simpsons episode featured the jingle in its standard american form.

i don't think it's a bad thing that 6 7 will probably be gone about as quickly as memes about the ever given, not when people were still saying "what a shocking bad hat" years after everybody else had gotten sick of it because, like, it was new to them. at the same time, like, not to get too adam curtis or anything... well, i've never seen any of his work, have i? it's all cultural context, no content. "hypernormalisation" to me barely means more than "6 7".

there _are_ still plenty of local social signifiers, mind you. it's just that sometimes you'll have one of these signfiers break out and "go viral". that's not "brainrot". i have found, though, that "going memetic" these days is pretty destructive. it's sort of like being put through one of andy warhol's "screen tests". it's unpleasantly like being drunk.*

like, richard dawkins wrote "the selfish gene" and then got brainrot. i don't think that memes themselves were the cause of the brainrot, but i do think memetics was certainly weaponized. at the same time, i mean, he's a rich cishet white dude. rich cishet white dude under white supremacist capitalist patriarchy becomes an ignorant, entitled asshole, film at 11.

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"What's so unpleasant about being drunk?"
"You ask a glass of water.” - douglas adams

idk, it's 4:30 am and i'm certainly overthinking this. i'm going to go back to the nightmares. the heebie jeebies. the "howling fantods" (i hate that anything that man wrote is still in my head).

omg you guys

my house number is 67

the little trick or treaters are STOKED about this

No but one can only assume it's all brain rot connected and means fuck all

Six Seeeeeevvvvvvven

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Friends of mine, a couple in their 50s, went to a Halloween party/concert on Friday dressed as 6-7. It was a last minute costume, they just grabbed a couple of big stencil numbers from an art supply place and hung them on yarn around their necks. The crowd was like 20s-60s, and the three groups of people they got reactions from were the youngest people there, the middle-aged parents, and especially every school teacher in the crowd rushed up to them with 6-7 stories from their classrooms.

There’s a Morphine song called “French Fries With Pepper,” that says:

On 06/06/66 I was little I didn't know shit
About 07/07/77 eleven years later still don't know any better
By 08/08/88 it's way to late for me to change and
By 09/09/99 I hope I'm sitting on the back porch drinking red wine singing

Oh french fries with pepper
Oh french fries with pepper

I played it for my 11 year old who loves french fries and is down with the 6-7 and she is fucking nuts over this song.

i looked it up and i still dont know lol

It’s like an inside joke starter kit for kids

We are on to "Ballerina Cappuccina" in my house.

today on the marquee sign outside a school in south minneapolis:

How many days a week should you read?
6 7

the kids have won. we are all losers

Ways to make 67 uncool:

Use it to teach kids about Social Security
Talk about the Summer of Love
tell them about Psalm 6:7: "Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies."

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SIX SEVEN!!

If only we had received three fewer votes.