c/nottheonion · by just_another_person@lemmy.world · 259d

JD Vance calls for banning viral 'six-seven' meme after his child goes 'absolutely nuts'

https://www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-2674386405/

These people still don't care for the First Amendment.

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Hylactor@sopuli.xyz · 167 pts · 259d (13 replies)

The very short article makes it pretty clear that this a was a joke. When we take these types of headlines at face value we become just as mindless as the maga crowd.

Vice President JD Vance jokingly called for instituting a “narrow exception to the First Amendment” Tuesday to prohibit Americans from uttering the numbers “six” and “seven,” referencing the viral meme that has exploded in popularity among children and teens, including Vance’s own five-year-old child.

“Yesterday at church the Bible readings started on page 66-67 of the missal, and my 5-year-old went absolutely nuts repeating ‘six seven’ like 10 times,” Vance wrote in a social media post on X. “And now I think we need to make this narrow exception to the first amendment and ban these numbers forever.”

The meme, which has baffled and confused adults for months, traces its roots to the 2025 song “Doot Doot (6 7) by rapper “Skrilla,” which had been used on highlight videos of the professional basketball player LeMelo Ball, whose height is 6’7. Clips of basketball players and young sports fans uttering the phrase “six, seven” while doing exaggerated hand gestures also accelerated the meme’s spread.

The meme’s use in schools has been so prominent among young children and teens that some have begun banning its use, a policy that Vance now appears to agree with, at least in jest.

“Where did this even come from?” Vance continued. “I don't understand it. When we were kids all of our viral trends at least had an origin story.”

danc4498@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 259d

Thanks for being the voice of reason!

There’s so many awful things these people are doing, we don’t need to make stuff up to get mad about.

JoshsJunkDrawer@lemmy.ml · 23 pts · 259d (8 replies)

The problem is that he is appatently comfortable making these "jokes" in the first place.

KoboldCoterie@pawb.social · 29 pts · 259d (3 replies)

I mean, if he said it completely seriously, and the article was published saying he had, then he later came out and said "It was just a joke guys! Jeez, so uptight!", I'd agree with you, but it was apparently clear from the outset that it was a joke and the headline is likely intentionally written to sensationalize it. The only problem I see here is that someone at rawstory thought this was newsworthy.

just_another_person@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 259d (2 replies)

They've been doing this since the beginning of the year.

It starts with jokes...

tal@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 259d

I'm not that concerned. There's a famous Reagan joke that he did during a sound test:

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

witheyeandclaw@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 259d

This is part of manufacturing consent for certain ideas in the media.

sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 259d (1 reply)

I think this is the least problematic thing he has done to my knowledge

nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 8 pts · 259d

Depends on your opinions about the sanctity of sofas

Hylactor@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 259d

That's "a" problem to be sure, but perhaps not "the" problem. For example, every president for the past 36 years has pardoned a turkey for thanksgiving. Given the genocide of Native Americans by the US government, and the supposed occasion of Thanksgiving this seems like many smacks in many faces. Or making light of execution, which America is just one of 3 OECD countries (us, japan, and south korea) who even have capital punishment anymore, is in extremely poor taste. So joking about free speech is tone deaf I agree, but not unprecedentedly so, and not necessarily the purview of either party.

Long story short, there are bigger fish to fry, and we can't afford to waste our anger rather than apply it where it belongs.

markz@suppo.fi · 5 pts · 259d

Of all jokes from this crowd, this one I don't think is the kind that that's actually a hint.

Tilgare@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 259d

This is some quality reporting - that's more details on the memes' origination than I've ever read before. As far as I knew it was utterly random.

“Where did this even come from?” Vance continued. “I don't understand it. When we were kids all of our viral trends at least had an origin story.”

First of all - hilarious that the article explains where it came from and then ends with this quote.

But no, we absolutely did not have an origin story for all of our childhood memes. Every kid knew about the Mew under the truck in Pokémon red/blue, or that Marilyn Manson removed a rib. People still marvel today at the proliferation of that (false) information - how did we all hear it, and where in the world did it come from?

kbal@fedia.io · 11 pts · 259d

As a joke it probably would've been more funny if it weren't for all the reporting about how they were deporting people for posting JD Vance memes and are now demanding to see everyone's social media accounts at the border.

scarabic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 259d

I agree with you.

Is also think our VP is in poor taste to make jokes about how he’d like to fire off an exception to the 1st amendment. It’s just another example of total disrespect for our constitution and personal arrogance within the executive branch.

ameancow@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 259d

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shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol · 30 pts · 259d (1 reply)

You can tell he's a bad dad because he didn't just start doing the meme. There's no faster way to kill it. Just start doing it when you drop them off at school. "Remember, dinner's going to be late tonight! Around 6-7!"

Dead in an instant.

scarabic@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 259d

In addition to this I’m also deliberately fucking up the hand gesture: instead of using my two hands to weigh some invisible objects, I claw at the air like a cat. They lose their fucking minds.

theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 24 pts · 259d (2 replies)

We should ban the numbers 6 and 7 from all schools.

Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 25 pts · 259d (1 reply)

They're arabic!

Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 259d

I want good old fashioned roman numerals none of that Arabic numerals new age gobbledygook

A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 17 pts · 259d (4 replies)

Nobody takes this seriously (I hope), but coming from MAGA's #2, it's all just a little too on the nose.

ameancow@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 259d (2 replies)

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A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · -2 pts · 259d (1 reply)

meh

village604@adultswim.fan · 2 pts · 259d

The trump administration. That was pretty obvious.

Witchfire@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 259d

I have a feeling it's related to that one South Park episode

papalonian@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 259d (3 replies)

People taking dumbass shit like this seriously is why the right will do literally whatever the fuck they want in this country. It takes 2 seconds of critical thinking and investigation to see that this is a complete nothing statement made as a joke. Yet half the people in the comments are gonna lock themselves in a bedroom and cry over this "attack on free speech".

I really fucking hate it when people say "both sides are just as bad", but c'mon guys. This is "the LIBS are trying to make your kids TRANS!" levels of stupid.

spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 259d

We have a president openly selling pardons, violating the Emoluments clause of the Constitution, illegally accepting bribes and gifts from foreign countries, and breaking laws without a second thought. Six Supreme Court justices openly accepting bribes from plaintiffs in cases before them, then ruling in their favor. Those justices completely ignore the Constitution, black-letter law and 250 years of precedent and make shit up to justify decisions that have no possible justification. A HHS chief who believes Youtube over science and is dismantling the very organization he oversees, plus blocking new vaccine development and deployment of existing, effective vaccines. The list goes on and on.

The GQP has shown that they will do whatever the fuck they want because there are literally no consequences. Some people crying over attacks on free speech isn't going to make a damn bit of difference to them either.

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 2 pts · 259d

But see, that would require reading the article and not just the headline.

glimse@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 259d

Raw Story and The Daily Beast are garbage sites that make the left look stupid

ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 259d

6-7 You couch fucker.

pheonixdown@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 259d (4 replies)

For the awareness of the elderly, 6-7 is starting to evolve, at least locally, into a call and response with the response to a 6-7 hand gesture being 8-9 with a kind of horizontal movement of vertical hands in a similar fashion. I'm unsure how local the trend is, it's true origin, or if it will spread.

It's interesting that to those not initiated into the call and response by peers will see knowledgeable non-peers providing the response as mocking or failing to understand the meme, thus further cementing it's role as a tool as an in joke to the 6-7'er, despite them now being on the outside of the evolution of the joke, which is a wonderful contradiction.

stoly@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 259d (3 replies)

Can you explain what 6 - 7 means?

SparroHawc@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 259d (1 reply)

It has no meaning. It's a meme purely for the sake of being a meme.

stoly@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 259d

thanks.

pheonixdown@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 259d

It's not just that it means nothing, it's that it exists as the implication of something or anything that can be used to identify with the in-group.

_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 259d

There's nothing more free speech than banning a stupid meme.

SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 259d (3 replies)

How the fuck do you "ban" something like this? Everyone wears a monitor? Track down and deport anyone who posts it online?

The idiocy of this doomed country is exhausting.

shalafi@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 259d (1 reply)

I'd say the idiocy lies with anyone who can't understand a clear joke.

SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 259d

Say, I bet you have an English degree and all.

ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 259d

Caning ? A short sharp shock is all these little idiots can understand.

Rivalarrival@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 259d (6 replies)

I have legitimately never seen this meme.

I've seen dozens of posts and articles commenting on it, but I have never actually seen this meme in the wild.

stoly@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 259d (5 replies)

I looked it up. It's not a meme, it's just something people say because people started saying in on Tik Tok. Apparently its only point is to make people who are older become confused.

BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 259d (2 replies)

This is something that definitely makes me feel old.

We had some rough ones, but were our memes ever this stupid?

_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 259d

Yes, I can assure you that stupid memes have always been around.

stoly@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 259d

This means that what is viral or memey is evolving.

ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 259d (1 reply)