XKCD made me aware of the fact that this sorta joke has been going on since way before any of us were born. 23 skidoo is an old trendy phrase that's made up of two jokes that mean nothing definable on their own
Today's 67 is 1899's 23
From the XKCD alt text:
In 1899, people were walking around shouting `23' at each other and laughing, and confused reporters were writing articles trving to figure out what it meant.
Pretty sure it just comes from the fact that two dudes laying on their side to blow each other at the same time just resembles the number 69 when viewed from above.
When asked by Complex[7] about the meaning of the numbers, Skrilla said, "Everybody else got their own different meaning. But for me, it's just 'negative to positive.' It helped me turn from a negative person to a positive person."
In a comment to the Wall Street Journal[11] from the same timeframe, he also said, "I never put an actual meaning on it, and I still would not want to … That’s why everybody keeps saying it."
So it's a number repeated in a song that the artist says has no meaning, instead of it just being a meaningless number.
Glad you helped clear that up. Way to prove everyone wrong.
I would argue that it has an origin but lost its meaning since the people who use it don't know the meaning. At this point, it's more than anything a cultural signifier which isn't a new thing either. People try to belong to an ingroup and adopt their insider even if only as marker of that group.
The 67 meme literally means nothing. It's not even referencing the code, or the song it originally went viral to which was referencing the police code.
As a dad who tries to connect with his kids, I made a 67 reference last week. Their response: "Oh Dad, 67 is old now." Kids these days can't even commit to the bit. 🤣
This is why I cannot dislike the 67 meme. I don't actively like it or anything but we have our own funny number and there were 42 as well and 21 for a while.
There are definitely things to criticize about the new generation, I am not denying that, but finding a number amusing is too inoffensive for me to care.
I grew up on source film maker slop but I will take the opportunity to hate on the corporatisation of SFM shitposts. Why the fuck is there skibidi toilet merch? A movie? What the fuck, are they going to make a movie based on Shrekophone? Fucking fuck I want off this ride
I always wondered when I'd stop being the one being hated by adults and start being the one hating kids. I always wondered what it would be that I "didn't get". I thought, I'm tech savvy. I don't know in what way I would be left behind by future generations. I could not have predicted this.
I love the fact that I never turned into this guy that hates the new stuff. I wasn't hating fidget spinners when everybody hated them, I liked Fortnite, I think skibidi toilet is fun and such. But just as I didn't like some trends when I was young myself (e.g. I never wanted to join the Gangnam style dance), I do find it disappointing that 67 is so popular, because I loved the fact that 69 is funny because of sex.
But I mean, the same is true with E. It was a random letter. And there have been other random funny numbers. I just don't like it because it "hurts" 69's status of the funny number xD
Im with you on this. I'm in my mid-40s but I work with a lot of 19-25 year olds so I am still exposed to a lot of current memes/slang/whatever. There's only been a couple that I thought were absolutely stupid.
(Internet slang, originally 4chan slang) Admirable for rejecting political correctness or socially progressive values.
Synonym: unwoke
based and redpilled
My last account got banned for being too based.
I've mostly seen it referring to other things, sometimes non-political things and sometimes political things but as a positive statement about something progressive
There is a point where random noises become a song. Disposability of culture is, to my eye, a novelty that hasn’t yet reached the point of becoming a song. It’s just random noises, and I want to silence them with a heavy pipe to the throat
Politics at its root is ideals about how to structure society though. It does, however, devolve into a team sports mentality in a lot of cases, which is I think what you're getting at.
Yea, several of those things have actual qualitative and quantitative measurements on which they can be compared, but far be it from the common dingdong to think in such lofty terms...
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otacon239@lemmy.world · 101 pts · 210d
Another case for the jury
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 74 pts · 210d
At least 69 is representative of something. 67 is literally meaningless.
NotSteve_@piefed.ca · 70 pts · 210d
XKCD made me aware of the fact that this sorta joke has been going on since way before any of us were born. 23 skidoo is an old trendy phrase that's made up of two jokes that mean nothing definable on their own
Today's 67 is 1899's 23
From the XKCD alt text:
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz · 33 pts · 210d
Bro we grew up with "-holds up spork-", we cannot comment on what the newgen find meaning in.
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net · 13 pts · 210d
So random xD
otacon239@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 207d
🥔
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 20 pts · 210d
69 fucks
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 26 pts · 210d
Technically speaking, 69 sucks.
WR5@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 210d
And there's the beauty: it does both!
SippyCup@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 209d
Gentlemen, it both sucks and fucks. If she freaky anyway.
wabafee@lemmy.world · -7 pts · 209d
69 stands for S in Sex. (Point each end of the 6 and 9 kinda looks like cursive s)
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 5 pts · 209d
Pretty sure it just comes from the fact that two dudes laying on their side to blow each other at the same time just resembles the number 69 when viewed from above.
Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com · 12 pts · 210d
A better comparison would be our 21
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 210d
21 to me means luck because you won at blackjack.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 209d
That still makes more sense to me at least. Unless I am missing some great context about 67
Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 209d
A kid said 67 badly
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 209d
That is it?
slacktoid@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 210d
But that's why its perfect
Klear@quokk.au · 6 pts · 209d
So you're saying 67 is the better meme?
SippyCup@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 209d
No
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 209d
67 is very meaningful to Cantonese people
right @NorthWestWind@lemmy.world?
(https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%A2%8C%E6%9F%92)
NorthWestWind@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 209d
Hell yeah. It's pronounced similarly to 碌柒, which is a swear that means "dumbass".
cattywampas@lemmy.world · -20 pts · 210d
It's literally not, you just don't know what it means.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 210d
Carefully observe how the above argument lacks any supporting argument or information.
Curious.
cattywampas@lemmy.world · -12 pts · 210d
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/67-meme
Right there after a 30 second search
Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 210d
So it's a number repeated in a song that the artist says has no meaning, instead of it just being a meaningless number.
Glad you helped clear that up. Way to prove everyone wrong.
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 210d
I would argue that it has an origin but lost its meaning since the people who use it don't know the meaning. At this point, it's more than anything a cultural signifier which isn't a new thing either. People try to belong to an ingroup and adopt their insider even if only as marker of that group.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 209d
But do they know why six was afraid of seven?
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 209d
Because seven ate nine
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 209d
Classic
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 6 pts · 210d
10-67 means something.
The 67 meme literally means nothing. It's not even referencing the code, or the song it originally went viral to which was referencing the police code.
OpenStars@piefed.social · 41 pts · 210d
I feel so seen! :-P
BTW, 42.
UPGRAYEDD@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 209d
Cant forget the meaning of life and everything.
BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works · 37 pts · 210d
As a dad who tries to connect with his kids, I made a 67 reference last week. Their response: "Oh Dad, 67 is old now." Kids these days can't even commit to the bit. 🤣
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 31 pts · 209d
You made it old when you said it. Could you imagine your own parents making 420 jokes?
BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 209d
I've referenced it a few times in the past and they didn't complain. Oh well.
WonderRin@sh.itjust.works · 32 pts · 210d
This is why I cannot dislike the 67 meme. I don't actively like it or anything but we have our own funny number and there were 42 as well and 21 for a while.
There are definitely things to criticize about the new generation, I am not denying that, but finding a number amusing is too inoffensive for me to care.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 209d
6 x 7 = 42
Danquebec@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 209d
Mind blown
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 209d
How is 21 funny?
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 209d
What's 9 plus 10?
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 209d
19?
Or 910 or 109?
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 209d
Context
slacktoid@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 209d
I hope that kids doing alright.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 209d
Lol ok that's pretty goodÂ
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 209d
Was quite a big meme back when it first went viral. I am pretty sure the original comment meant this meme for 21.
slacktoid@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 209d
21!
SippyCup@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 209d
It's half the answer
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 209d
80085
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 209d
5319009
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 209d
[]D [] []v[] []D
MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 209d
Wait, I didn't get this one
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 209d
It's not a calculator thing. It's an old instant messaging thing that spells PIMP.
MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 207d
Oh!
twinkwithahammer@quokk.au · 18 pts · 209d
Gentlemen, there's a solution here you are not seeing . . . 68!
Una@europe.pub · 32 pts · 209d
68±1
SippyCup@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 209d
±1 WHAT ALEX. ±1 WHAT??
1 thou? 1 millimeter? A fucking mile?! WHAT DOES ±1 MEAN YOU FUCKING HACK.
This rant brought to you by a salty machinist and a new engineer.
Una@europe.pub · 2 pts · 209d
Kebab
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 209d
Holy shit I'm stealing this comment
shira@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 209d
They're a breakcore artist, I like em
RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 209d
I don't see why 2480035542436830599600990418569171581047399201355367672371710738018221445712183296000000000000000 would be funny...
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 209d
You will have had to have been there, I guess.
Danquebec@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 209d
The middle ground fallacy
slacktoid@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 210d
Dont get me started on skibidi toilet!
Maultasche@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 210d
Our glorious Gmod videos
Their horrible SFM animations
slacktoid@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 210d
I legit enjoy it and think it's a fun commentary on legacy vs contemporary media.
Klear@quokk.au · 3 pts · 209d
Skibidi toilet is shockingly well made.
NotSteve_@piefed.ca · 12 pts · 210d
I grew up on source film maker slop but I will take the opportunity to hate on the corporatisation of SFM shitposts. Why the fuck is there skibidi toilet merch? A movie? What the fuck, are they going to make a movie based on Shrekophone? Fucking fuck I want off this ride
sol6_vi@lemmy.makearmy.io · 15 pts · 209d
I always wondered when I'd stop being the one being hated by adults and start being the one hating kids. I always wondered what it would be that I "didn't get". I thought, I'm tech savvy. I don't know in what way I would be left behind by future generations. I could not have predicted this.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 209d
so it's fun. turns out, you just keep being hated by everyone
sol6_vi@lemmy.makearmy.io · 3 pts · 209d
Yay
Korne127@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 209d
I love the fact that I never turned into this guy that hates the new stuff. I wasn't hating fidget spinners when everybody hated them, I liked Fortnite, I think skibidi toilet is fun and such. But just as I didn't like some trends when I was young myself (e.g. I never wanted to join the Gangnam style dance), I do find it disappointing that 67 is so popular, because I loved the fact that 69 is funny because of sex.
MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 209d
Atleast 69 had a context. 67 literally was a kid spurting out a random number.
P1k1e@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 208d
I just kinda assumed it was a mix of memes "why was 66 afraid of 67? Cuz 67 68 69" Ba-dum-cha
Korne127@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 208d
But I mean, the same is true with E. It was a random letter. And there have been other random funny numbers. I just don't like it because it "hurts" 69's status of the funny number xD
Burninator05@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 208d
Im with you on this. I'm in my mid-40s but I work with a lot of 19-25 year olds so I am still exposed to a lot of current memes/slang/whatever. There's only been a couple that I thought were absolutely stupid.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 9 pts · 210d
TBF though, the Slop Posting isn't comparable at all. Slop is actual negative value given form.
FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 209d
I don't know what "based" means, and at this point I'm too afraid to ask.
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 209d
It's the opposite of "cringe"
MathiasTCK@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 208d
Hardly, the use of based this way is cringe.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/based
(Internet slang, originally 4chan slang) Admirable for rejecting political correctness or socially progressive values. Synonym: unwoke based and redpilled My last account got banned for being too based.
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 206d
well that's what it originally meant
I've mostly seen it referring to other things, sometimes non-political things and sometimes political things but as a positive statement about something progressive
HoopyFrood@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 209d
So based
FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 209d
Is this where I say six seven? Am I doing it? Do the kids think I'm cool yet?
Una@europe.pub · 4 pts · 209d
e
certified_expert@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 208d
69 > 67
Gullible@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 210d
There is a point where random noises become a song. Disposability of culture is, to my eye, a novelty that hasn’t yet reached the point of becoming a song. It’s just random noises, and I want to silence them with a heavy pipe to the throat
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 209d
Scatman.mp3
hansolo@lemmy.today · -10 pts · 210d
Could say the same for:
Politics.
Religion.
Ethnic groups.
Sport teams.
Cola preference.
Cutting some bits off your genitals or not.
Operaring systems.
Humans are a hoot, huh?
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 210d
The first three things you brought up are the concepts literally criticised by the unedited original cartoon.
hansolo@lemmy.today · -2 pts · 210d
Ok, and I've never seen that.
rigatti@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 210d
Politics at its root is ideals about how to structure society though. It does, however, devolve into a team sports mentality in a lot of cases, which is I think what you're getting at.
MotoAsh@piefed.social · 6 pts · 210d
Yea, several of those things have actual qualitative and quantitative measurements on which they can be compared, but far be it from the common dingdong to think in such lofty terms...
MotoAsh@piefed.social · 6 pts · 210d
Wait, who the hell is pro genital mutilation!?
... Oh wait, Jews do circumcision... siiiiigghhhh
(I'm also aware some areas of India/middle east do FGM too, but I don't remember if it's for anything close to religous reasons)
femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 210d
Most Christians in the US.
MotoAsh@piefed.social · 6 pts · 210d
Throws up a little in my mouth.
... Thanks, I wanted to taste breakfast again!
hansolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 210d
Circumcision happens all over. It's popular in the US, Africa, and Middle east especially.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence_of_circumcision
MotoAsh@piefed.social · -1 pts · 210d
Getting roasted because people don't want their dingdong cut off... +1 for accuracy though.
hansolo@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 209d
Yeah, right? Because saying something exists and showing evidence makes me a terrible person somehow?
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 209d
Not only Jews, also US Christians for some reason.