My understanding was rap song (possibly a reference to violence) -> used in TikToks especially basketball -> said by a kid at a basketball game while doing an excited hand gesture -> went viral from that and now kids just shout out for funsies, because kids do silly things.
It's funny how people don't seem to remember being a kid. I can name you plenty of memes and in-jokes from middle school/high school where the "joke" was that it had literally no meaning. Adults being confused about kids these days only fuels the joke.
Like, has anyone lost the game recently? You think that's any more high-brow?
I'm a school bus driver and a former programmer. The elementary kids on my bus like to say "what is six plus seven? Six-seven!" and I say "sure, in Visual Basic". They don't get it, naturally enough.
I lose the game every time someone shares a loss meme. I find that meme stupid so I happily share my loss of The Game to make everyone else suffer a loss with me!
I remember being a kid, and yet I do not remember any of the "lol random" things I thought were fucking hilarious except the phrase "penis wrinkle." That shit still makes me laugh so hard it hurts.
Losing the game was a clear concept with the joke of losing the moment you were reminded you were playing. It didn't have huge depth but it was clever.
If this thing is truly just a phrase that means absolutely nothing and has no meaning or message or purpose, sure that's cool, but it's no the game.
Really adults are using this to at least with their kids. I don't understand what is confusing it's just a saying that well fade away like so many others.
I saw the original clip; the kid saying “six seven!” and doing a bobbling hand gesture looked and sounded pretty ridiculous and I can absolutely see how it would get turned into a meme, especially if you repeat it enough on TikTok-style short videos
A favourite pastime of every old fart is to tell everyone who can't run away, how much better culture, music, memes, and life in general was when they were young, and how stupid, devoid of meaning, inferior current youth's activities are.
You grew old and lost that sense of excitement you get being a group of young people, feel of comradery you get yelling nonsense in unison, being stupid to the same wavelength. That's what that means. You may try to justify your nonsense because your adult brain doesn't want to grasp the reality that you also was young and stupid so you try to feint some justification for it.
It's a reference to Chappelle Show about how Rick James disrespected Charlie Murphy by getting his muddy boots on his white suede couch, and Rick James is like "Fuck yo couch! You're rich, buy another one! Fuck yo couch!" while spreading mud on the couch. It's about disrespecting you, but also dismissing complaints rather than actually admit you did anything wrong.
To bring this full circle. "67" was used in a (semi?) popular song among Gen alpha, and unless they know this factoid, and that "67" is used as slang for the 10-67 police code in Philadelphia, then the placement of "67" in the lyrics of the song seems very odd at least, and completely random at best.
It seems that a nontrivial amount of Gen Alpha humor hinges on randomness, but as far as I'm concerned that's not exclusive to their generation. My fellow millennials were ROFL-ing to some pretty random stuff in our glory days too, so that part I get. With Gen alpha one noticed that the less of a meaning something seems to have, the more they cling to it, and the funnier it becomes.
6-7 sits in such an obscure part of human knowledge that, until very recently, only a very small group even understood it, even now, I would say that number hasn't really changed much. And because the meaning of 67 in the original lyric was unknown and presumed to not exist, making the lyric both random and meaningless, it's become the funniest shit ever for the Gen alpha kids.
Look, anyone from Gen alpha, I love you. You guys keep doing what you're doing. Let your freak flags fly. Do it while you can. As Baz Luhrmann said: "enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Nevermind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back on photos of yourself and recall in a way that you can't grasp now, how much possibility laid before you, and how fabulous you really looked."
I can explain it better than the people using it right now. 6-7 is a social indicator of being "in" on the joke. It identifies people as part of a generation/movement.
This type of thing isn't particularly unique. Like with "fuck your couch" it indicates that someone is a part of a social group.
The difference that the other poster is missing, is that, unlike previous stuff, where something like "fuck your couch" (to continue with the same example) has meaning outside of what it's referencing, aka those are words that mean things, 6-7 doesn't share the same informational bias.
"I can dig it", even without knowing the social etymology of the phrase can be interpreted by a layman, more or less, for its relative meaning. Meanwhile 6-7 is impossible to comprehend without knowing what it is referencing.
... It actually comes from Philadelphia slang, but I also wouldn't expect Gen alpha to know that either.
Back in uni when I'd go out drinking I'd be walking through campus and people would just randomly scream out "WHAT!'" And someone else would scream out "OKAY!"
I find this actually annoying. I don't mind that it's meta or a reference to something I don't know about, I mind that there's nothing to play with except invoking it
It's so meta it's only meta, it's a reference to white noise
I just spread it again without realizing it, damn cognitohazards...
But yeah, here there's literally nothing to get. There's no cultural context, no deeper meaning - the whole thing is just the hand motion and saying "six seven"
"The game" actually had a thing to it, there was logic and reason behind it and it was actually funny for a bit.
Someday centuries from now web archeologists will discover it and share it among their collogues a fun little inside joke. But then it will spread to their friends and families and then to their coworkers and their loved ones. And it will be born again like some ancient evil.
I spotted a couple Kilroroys in the ancient ass cereal factory I worked at in the 00s. Lots of good hobo marks in the box cars that came through, too: Moniker (graffiti) - Wikipedia https://share.google/PzAtUnQhInHkgD2qT
Except Arthur Dent wasn’t descended from the original hominids of Earth, but rather the useless humans who came from another planet, so the question was corrupted in his mind.
The fact that the only adults I know regularly saying it are right wingers, has made me paranoid that it's some secret Nazi shit. Even though I can find no evidence of that online.
that said, i think that some of us forget what it was like to go to school - especially how fucking boring i was. any phrase that would get a rise.. in my school, it was one dude yelling "BIG BOOTY HOES" and then everyone who heard it would yell 'UP WIT IT"
How shibboleth came to mean password or dog whistle instead of an ear of wheat is from a pretty dark bible story:
And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;
Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
I think that's because it's a tiktok thing and the right is way better at using apps like that to brainwash people, so naturally they'll also see the other unrelated memes and stuff
Excuse me. But the French damn well have a word for sixty: soixante. And the counting keeps going normally right up to 70, which reads as Sixty Ten. That goes up to Sixty Nineteen, and THEN Four Twenties.
If I say I am using Plasma 6.5, people will guess I use NixOS or Arch, even if I don't say that separately.
That's kinda similar, except that you were much more specific.
That's true, I forgot that as well. By the time I was seeing it in the 90s it was embedded with the Subgenus guys (which overlaps pretty heavily with Discordianism IMO) so that's who I always associate it with. But forgot it was earlier/separate.
Yep, it's from Doot Doot, by Skrilla, and made its way from rap, to basketball (meaning to coldly score against someone or out perform them)... And now white people are saying it thinking it just means nothing because the internet is kooky.
there are some theories, behind the number, mostly that the kids who are chanting it in the original video, there was a tall basketball player before the camera panned to them and it might hint at a connection at the height of the player (that being 6ft 7ins)
In Philadelphia,
Which is the town the rapper Skrilla is from,
The police department uses many of the same "10-codes" in their radio communications as many other law enforcement agencies.
A 10-67 is used to signal that a dead body has been found or that a probable fatality is being investigated on scene.
The kids who are parroting it don't know what Skrilla meant when he was saying 67...
But what he was implying with that lyric is that the police just found a body and that he may be responsible for it.
Akin to boasting: "hear that radio call just now on the police scanner? I'm the one who merc'd that sucka. Remember that, and don't fuck with me."
From what I understand, it's a reference to a hip hop song that got popular on tick tock that has 67 mentioned in it because that is the police code for body found
The artist apparently denied that he meant that at all. Sounds like it might've originally had something to do with a basketball player's height, but it was only the inspiration aurally and didn't end up being a part of the meaning in the song.
Yup. I keep encountering it, but I’ve only ever encountered it in the context of old people going “I don’t understand what these young people are talking about!” seemingly having passed into the “I don’t remember what being a child was like” stage of their lives.
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ICastFist@programming.dev · 122 pts · 280d
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works · 119 pts · 280d
My understanding was rap song (possibly a reference to violence) -> used in TikToks especially basketball -> said by a kid at a basketball game while doing an excited hand gesture -> went viral from that and now kids just shout out for funsies, because kids do silly things.
Donkter@lemmy.world · 97 pts · 280d
It's funny how people don't seem to remember being a kid. I can name you plenty of memes and in-jokes from middle school/high school where the "joke" was that it had literally no meaning. Adults being confused about kids these days only fuels the joke.
Like, has anyone lost the game recently? You think that's any more high-brow?
grue@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 280d
Not since XKCD #391. You're welcome.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 280d
And the only way to kill it is for adults to start saying it, usually incorrectly, as much as possible.
snooggums@piefed.world · 47 pts · 280d
That would be pretty 6-7 of us adults to do.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 280d
We could shorten it to negative one because that’s six minus seven and shortening things and having to explain them makes them cooler
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 280d
I'm a school bus driver and a former programmer. The elementary kids on my bus like to say "what is six plus seven? Six-seven!" and I say "sure, in Visual Basic". They don't get it, naturally enough.
Natanael@infosec.pub · 9 pts · 280d
Almost like it's imaginary
luciferofastora@feddit.org · 6 pts · 280d
6-7 makes no sense because the root of 6-7 is literally imaginary 🤯
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 280d
No, that's the square root of negative one.
Auli@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 280d
They are. Been to a sporting event with young kids.
GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 280d
"Nut check!" [Blinding agony]
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 280d
What's the capital of Thailand?
Makeshift@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 280d
I lose the game every time someone shares a loss meme. I find that meme stupid so I happily share my loss of The Game to make everyone else suffer a loss with me!
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 10 pts · 280d
I remember being a kid, and yet I do not remember any of the "lol random" things I thought were fucking hilarious except the phrase "penis wrinkle." That shit still makes me laugh so hard it hurts.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 280d
We used to have a "Guess what?" "What?" "Nope!" routine going as kids. I still laugh at that one for no valid reason.
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 6 pts · 280d
Holds up spork
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 280d
My spoon is too big!
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 280d
I just lost the game
Soggy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 280d
I remember being annoyed at kids being dumb when I was a kid. Honestly it bothers me less now.
obinice@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 279d
Losing the game was a clear concept with the joke of losing the moment you were reminded you were playing. It didn't have huge depth but it was clever.
If this thing is truly just a phrase that means absolutely nothing and has no meaning or message or purpose, sure that's cool, but it's no the game.
Auli@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 280d
Really adults are using this to at least with their kids. I don't understand what is confusing it's just a saying that well fade away like so many others.
jqubed@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 280d
I saw the original clip; the kid saying “six seven!” and doing a bobbling hand gesture looked and sounded pretty ridiculous and I can absolutely see how it would get turned into a meme, especially if you repeat it enough on TikTok-style short videos
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 280d
Just saw a language Jones video about exactly this. Pretty much echoed the same thing.
Iunnrais@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 280d
Should probably link it here: https://youtu.be/laZpTO7IFtA
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 280d
Lo ciento
Gigasser@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 280d
6-7 or 10-67 is a police code often in reference to report a dead body.
Drusas@fedia.io · 10 pts · 280d
Codes vary dramatically from one jurisdiction to the next.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 280d
apparently it's the code from philly, skrilla's* home town, who wrote the song that started all this.
skrilla is not skrillex apparently doh
alcibiades@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 279d
Skrilla* the drill artist, not Skrillex the dubstep artist lmao
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 279d
haha I stand corrected
Cethin@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 280d
Yeah, except he isn't from Philly! People are just trying to link things, and they don't care to actually check.Edit: Nevermind. Misremembered. The bad explanation is that it's from Chicago and he isn't from Chicago.
Check this video out. It's good and I think has the actually explanation: https://youtu.be/laZpTO7IFtA
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 280d
My tenth grade nephew said something about how it started because NBA player Lonzo Ball is 6'7" and was described as "six seven" during a broadcast.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 280d
I think that's why the song was originally used in basketball TikToks.
GladiusB@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 280d
This is the answer I have seen the most. Also the kids have no clue what they are saying other than it's a meme of a meme. Let em have fun.
BCOVertigo@lemmy.world · 115 pts · 280d
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 280d
Joe out there with the detonator about to blow them up
ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip · 26 pts · 280d
Joe? Joe who?
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 280d
Joe Mamma
krull_krull@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 280d
Joe Biden
Honytawk@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 279d
Joe Nuts
recklessengagement@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 280d
This meme is like a Rosetta stone for genz communication
OpenStars@discuss.online · 3 pts · 280d
That rings true... because I don't know what half of it means. :-P
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 5 pts · 280d
GOT EEM
RagingRobot@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 280d
I still want 2 CDs!
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net · 70 pts · 280d
Millennials losing their minds over this when we used to shout 'fuck your couch!' and Rick James, Bitch! all the time, before memes were a thing.
I suppose memes have always been memes, but they were simply auditory before
if_only@sh.itjust.works · 40 pts · 280d
In my day. we just quoted Monty Python and everyone would laugh at how clever you were. This is effectively the same thing.
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net · 16 pts · 280d
No one expects the 6-7 imposition!
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca · 37 pts · 280d
Those words mean things. They might not make a lot of sense in the context we used them in, but they formed a thought.
6-7 isn't even a semi complete concept on the surface of it. It's literally devoid of any meaning at all.
Xenny@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 280d
I fucking dig it. Surrealist slang is the best. We had our own shit like that too.
Nalivai@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 280d
A favourite pastime of every old fart is to tell everyone who can't run away, how much better culture, music, memes, and life in general was when they were young, and how stupid, devoid of meaning, inferior current youth's activities are.
RedFrank24@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 280d
Then explain it! What does 6-7 mean? Because even though people might use it wrong, "Fuck your couch" actually means something.
Nalivai@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 280d
You grew old and lost that sense of excitement you get being a group of young people, feel of comradery you get yelling nonsense in unison, being stupid to the same wavelength. That's what that means. You may try to justify your nonsense because your adult brain doesn't want to grasp the reality that you also was young and stupid so you try to feint some justification for it.
Auli@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 280d
Never yelled random stuff. It was never a thing. And WTF is Fuck your couch never heard of it.
RedFrank24@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 280d
It's a reference to Chappelle Show about how Rick James disrespected Charlie Murphy by getting his muddy boots on his white suede couch, and Rick James is like "Fuck yo couch! You're rich, buy another one! Fuck yo couch!" while spreading mud on the couch. It's about disrespecting you, but also dismissing complaints rather than actually admit you did anything wrong.
Draegur@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 279d
It refers to radio code "10-67" used by various public safety agencies:
Dead body found and/or fatality being investigated on scene.
Adjacent to 10-66 which instructs dispatch to notify the medical examiner.
It's the classic gangsta rap boast of "check it out i murdered someone, I'm a tough hard-boiled badass"
The kids saying it out loud don't realize that was what the rapper they're quoting was referencing, though.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 278d
I'm not sure why you haven't gotten more upvotes.
To bring this full circle. "67" was used in a (semi?) popular song among Gen alpha, and unless they know this factoid, and that "67" is used as slang for the 10-67 police code in Philadelphia, then the placement of "67" in the lyrics of the song seems very odd at least, and completely random at best.
It seems that a nontrivial amount of Gen Alpha humor hinges on randomness, but as far as I'm concerned that's not exclusive to their generation. My fellow millennials were ROFL-ing to some pretty random stuff in our glory days too, so that part I get. With Gen alpha one noticed that the less of a meaning something seems to have, the more they cling to it, and the funnier it becomes.
6-7 sits in such an obscure part of human knowledge that, until very recently, only a very small group even understood it, even now, I would say that number hasn't really changed much. And because the meaning of 67 in the original lyric was unknown and presumed to not exist, making the lyric both random and meaningless, it's become the funniest shit ever for the Gen alpha kids.
Look, anyone from Gen alpha, I love you. You guys keep doing what you're doing. Let your freak flags fly. Do it while you can. As Baz Luhrmann said: "enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Nevermind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back on photos of yourself and recall in a way that you can't grasp now, how much possibility laid before you, and how fabulous you really looked."
Cheers everyone.
RedFrank24@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 279d
Does the hand gesture mean anything?
AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 279d
It feels like "Eh, it's a 6 or a 7" to me. But I'm an old man so take with a grain of salt haha
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 278d
At least someone understands me.
I can explain it better than the people using it right now. 6-7 is a social indicator of being "in" on the joke. It identifies people as part of a generation/movement.
This type of thing isn't particularly unique. Like with "fuck your couch" it indicates that someone is a part of a social group.
The difference that the other poster is missing, is that, unlike previous stuff, where something like "fuck your couch" (to continue with the same example) has meaning outside of what it's referencing, aka those are words that mean things, 6-7 doesn't share the same informational bias.
"I can dig it", even without knowing the social etymology of the phrase can be interpreted by a layman, more or less, for its relative meaning. Meanwhile 6-7 is impossible to comprehend without knowing what it is referencing.
... It actually comes from Philadelphia slang, but I also wouldn't expect Gen alpha to know that either.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub · 1 pts · 280d
The equivalent of saying "Ayyyy" because The Fonz said it.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 6 pts · 280d
We are living in the dumbest times imaginable, so I find this quite fitting.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 280d
i'm sure there's other folks here who remember No soap, radio!
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 280d
Back in uni when I'd go out drinking I'd be walking through campus and people would just randomly scream out "WHAT!'" And someone else would scream out "OKAY!"
There were many "fuck yo couch"es too
RagingRobot@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 280d
Wait a sec... I never said that first one. JD is that you?
BigPotato@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 279d
I never rubbed my feet on Charlie Murphy's Couch....
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
theneverfox@pawb.social · 6 pts · 280d
No, this one is uniquely incomprehensible
Heres the source
I find this actually annoying. I don't mind that it's meta or a reference to something I don't know about, I mind that there's nothing to play with except invoking it
It's so meta it's only meta, it's a reference to white noise
I also found "the game" annoying for comparison
ITGuyLevi@programming.dev · 3 pts · 280d
Damn man, I was on a streak (totally joking while kind of being serious).
Thanks for the source though, I still don't get it but I'm also still using the same ringtone I used when my son started school (he's in college now).
theneverfox@pawb.social · 4 pts · 279d
I just spread it again without realizing it, damn cognitohazards...
But yeah, here there's literally nothing to get. There's no cultural context, no deeper meaning - the whole thing is just the hand motion and saying "six seven"
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 279d
"The game" actually had a thing to it, there was logic and reason behind it and it was actually funny for a bit.
Someday centuries from now web archeologists will discover it and share it among their collogues a fun little inside joke. But then it will spread to their friends and families and then to their coworkers and their loved ones. And it will be born again like some ancient evil.
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 279d
Born too late to get a degree in Webchaerolgy. :(
Draegur@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 280d
Oh it all makes sense now
Shady JD took that as a suggestion.
FE80@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 279d
That's a "catch phrase". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catchphrase#History
joel_feila@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 280d
you're breaking my balls with that
n0respect@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 279d
Kilroy was here. A vintage cartoon meme from the midcentury; quite rare these days.
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 279d
I spotted a couple Kilroroys in the ancient ass cereal factory I worked at in the 00s. Lots of good hobo marks in the box cars that came through, too: Moniker (graffiti) - Wikipedia https://share.google/PzAtUnQhInHkgD2qT
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world · 63 pts · 280d
It means that the ultimate question to life, the universe, and everything is what is 6 times 7
spizzat2@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 280d
I see you had a functional scrabble bag to pull from.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 280d
what is six times nine, canonically
Krauerking@lemy.lol · 6 pts · 280d
Yeah, Arthur definitely did not have the great question in him.
meekah@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 280d
I mean the entirety of the planet earth is supposed to calculate that. Would you expect a stick of RAM to be able to do what a complete computer can?
n0respect@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 279d
Also, the planet was infected by a virus. Its processes got corrupted, so of course the output is bad.
iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 280d
Five four.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 280d
four two.
Valmond@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 279d
Eek! There's mice on the table!
TheRealKuni@piefed.social · 1 pts · 273d
Except Arthur Dent wasn’t descended from the original hominids of Earth, but rather the useless humans who came from another planet, so the question was corrupted in his mind.
NeilBru@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 280d
That's how old I am! I too love Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
etherphon@midwest.social · 31 pts · 280d
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 280d
calling it slang is....a stretch.
etherphon@midwest.social · 1 pts · 280d
BA834024112@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 280d
The real meaning:
https://youtu.be/laZpTO7IFtA
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 280d
a plausible explanation with an excellent linguistic deep dive on the entire vernacular terrain.
TYVM for the link.
SaraTonin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 280d
I was coming to post this
Soapbox@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 280d
The fact that the only adults I know regularly saying it are right wingers, has made me paranoid that it's some secret Nazi shit. Even though I can find no evidence of that online.
starman2112@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 279d
Near as I can tell, there's nothing nefarious at all about it. Rightwingers like it for the same reason children do
n0respect@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 279d
They love their shibboleths.
toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 279d
thanks for teaching me a new word!
that said, i think that some of us forget what it was like to go to school - especially how fucking boring i was. any phrase that would get a rise.. in my school, it was one dude yelling "BIG BOOTY HOES" and then everyone who heard it would yell 'UP WIT IT"
good times.
bricklove@midwest.social · 2 pts · 279d
How shibboleth came to mean password or dog whistle instead of an ear of wheat is from a pretty dark bible story:
Soulg@ani.social · 5 pts · 279d
I think that's because it's a tiktok thing and the right is way better at using apps like that to brainwash people, so naturally they'll also see the other unrelated memes and stuff
Soapbox@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 279d
That makes sense. Those same people I know saying it all the time also send me tiktok links I never open.
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 18 pts · 280d
I assumed it was a why is 6 afraid of 7 thing.
PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 280d
Because 7 is a registered 6 offender.
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 18 pts · 280d
It means 42. Life, universe, all that...
Kids don't even know they're referencing a great author.
OpenStars@discuss.online · 20 pts · 280d
beebers@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 280d
6*7 would be the question, silly.
snooggums@piefed.world · 5 pts · 280d
6-7 = -1 not 42 you silly goose.
toynbee@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 280d
Sure, but what do you get if you multiply six by nine?
snooggums@piefed.world · 2 pts · 280d
An orgasm.
toynbee@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 280d
I'm not certain that's accurate.
Natanael@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 280d
You don't even math modulo 42 do you?
BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 280d
Modulo 43, otherwise -1 would be congruent to 41
Natanael@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 280d
Surprise zero indexing
OpenStars@discuss.online · 1 pts · 280d
Only if you read if left to right.
7-6=unity, oh it's code for communism!
Klnsfw@lemmynsfw.com · 16 pts · 280d
In my language, "6 7" reads "six sept", which sounds like "cis het", a shorten form for "cisgender heterosexual".
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 280d
"my language" - this guy trying to sneak french in here without us noticing!
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 280d
You mean to tell me that the language where one says 3x20+7 to say sixty seven makes 6-7 mean something?!
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 280d
Excuse me. But the French damn well have a word for sixty: soixante. And the counting keeps going normally right up to 70, which reads as Sixty Ten. That goes up to Sixty Nineteen, and THEN Four Twenties.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 280d
That's honestly so much more cursed than I thought! I seriously thought that in French it was just pure base20 but nope!
Klnsfw@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 280d
Of course! The French language is so meaningless that sometimes things actually mean something.
Klnsfw@lemmynsfw.com · 3 pts · 280d
It was an attempt not to always emphasize the fact of being French.
But obviously, even in good faith, humility does not suit us well.
ulterno@programming.dev · 1 pts · 280d
If I say I am using Plasma 6.5, people will guess I use NixOS or Arch, even if I don't say that separately.
That's kinda similar, except that you were much more specific.
Allero@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 279d
If you say something on Lemmy, people will guess you refer to Linux
Honytawk@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 279d
Oh no! GET THEM!
crash sound, cat screeching, sacre bleu, car horn
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 280d
I lost my faith in the "new word" committee for 'Big Dictionary'.
agent_nycto@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 280d
They don't decide what a new word is, just document usage. And if it gets used enough, well....
ripcord@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 280d
23 skidoo
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 280d
fnord
ripcord@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 280d
Wow, theres a subgenius word I haven't heard in a long time.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 279d
Did SubGenius use it? It definitely started as Discordian.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 279d
That's true, I forgot that as well. By the time I was seeing it in the 90s it was embedded with the Subgenus guys (which overlaps pretty heavily with Discordianism IMO) so that's who I always associate it with. But forgot it was earlier/separate.
nailingjello@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 280d
Keep on Truckin
simulacra_procession@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 280d
Know what's funnier than 24..?
webp@mander.xyz · 18 pts · 280d
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com · 8 pts · 280d
Its from rap its referring to a 1067 some guy boasting about killing someone
DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 280d
Yep, it's from Doot Doot, by Skrilla, and made its way from rap, to basketball (meaning to coldly score against someone or out perform them)... And now white people are saying it thinking it just means nothing because the internet is kooky.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 280d
Hell yeah, 106.7 kroq!
orioler25@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 279d
baba booey
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 279d
There was a hyper local meta ironic uni-punchline my small friend group used back in the mid 90s.
It would be hilariously used for anything, even if it didn't make any sense.
Ex: Mom: 'Why aren't the leaves racked?'
Teens in chorus: 'Because the man sat on the toilet!'
That was the answer for just about everything until college, and no, none of us have experienced success.
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 280d
there are some theories, behind the number, mostly that the kids who are chanting it in the original video, there was a tall basketball player before the camera panned to them and it might hint at a connection at the height of the player (that being 6ft 7ins)
Draegur@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 280d
In Philadelphia,
Which is the town the rapper Skrilla is from,
The police department uses many of the same "10-codes" in their radio communications as many other law enforcement agencies.
A 10-67 is used to signal that a dead body has been found or that a probable fatality is being investigated on scene.
The kids who are parroting it don't know what Skrilla meant when he was saying 67...
But what he was implying with that lyric is that the police just found a body and that he may be responsible for it.
Akin to boasting: "hear that radio call just now on the police scanner? I'm the one who merc'd that sucka. Remember that, and don't fuck with me."
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 280d
wtf.
theneverfox@pawb.social · 3 pts · 280d
It's from this song apparently. It's at around 1:45 if the psychic damage gets to be too much
The moment you're talking about was one of the incidents that helped memify it though
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 280d
yeah i forgot to mention the song. but the basketball game was what memed it.
Matombo@feddit.org · 6 pts · 280d
e
Makeshift@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 280d
67 is my favorite current meme.
My understanding: It means the opposite of 42. And it gets funnier every time someone is baffled by it.
KuroiKaze@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 280d
From what I understand, it's a reference to a hip hop song that got popular on tick tock that has 67 mentioned in it because that is the police code for body found
ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 280d
The artist apparently denied that he meant that at all. Sounds like it might've originally had something to do with a basketball player's height, but it was only the inspiration aurally and didn't end up being a part of the meaning in the song.
KuroiKaze@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 280d
I mean I went and listened to the track. It sounds pretty clearly like that's what he means
ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 279d
I'm just going by what the guy said.
KuroiKaze@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 279d
Yeah guessing his lawyer advised him lol
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 279d
Plausible deniability.
nailingjello@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 280d
I really haven't seen any 67 memes on Lemmy. Am I missing something?
makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 280d
A connection to young people
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 280d
Sounds weird when you say it like that
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 6 pts · 280d
The freshest memes are in shortform video content, not here.
Makeshift@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 280d
Not a lemmy meme. It's kids these days.
OpenStars@discuss.online · 6 pts · 280d
ICastFist@programming.dev · 3 pts · 280d
As foretold by those Summerian clay tablets, those goshdarned kids in these days!
general_kitten@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 280d
only time i see it when people are having this conversation
SaraTonin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 280d
Yup. I keep encountering it, but I’ve only ever encountered it in the context of old people going “I don’t understand what these young people are talking about!” seemingly having passed into the “I don’t remember what being a child was like” stage of their lives.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 279d
It may not mean anything, but I was able to find out its origin, which was good enough for me.
vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 279d
And...?
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 279d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6-7_(meme)
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 280d
psx_crab@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 280d
Well it's the kiddo lingo, just like goo goo gaa gaa they always mean nothing.
REDACTED@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 278d
I feel like this just shows how far brainrot has gotten