But the brilliant part is that they aren't selling this shit to kids, they are selling it to parents and there's an extra dynamic of parent trying to make kid happy and kid probably picking up on that and acting happy to please the parent, resulting in the parent buying it more times when neither of them really care about it.
It's insidious and reminds me of those car commercials where they are marketing "a new car will make your teenagers want to spend time with the family instead of their friends" instead of trying to sell the car itself.
No idea about these days as I don't watch ads these days, but I do remember some minivan or SUV commercials like that back in the 00s and fresh enough off being a teenager that I knew it didn't work like that (or for the ones that would, they were probably already still engaged with the family without needing a new car).
Purdue... are they the ones I keep hearing about in the news selling poison chicken and killing their workers? I'm Canadian so our chicken is slightly less poison.
No, I posted mine a minute or two after the first one. It wasn't there when I started writing but after commenting, I refreshed the page and saw that I'd been beaten to the joke. The other one might not have read the comments.
Y'all just haters, 67 is just another example of one generation finding and creating their own internet humor, then having every other generation bash on them for it.
Sure it's a bit cringey, but let the kids have their fun. Internet humor doesn't have to be so gatekeepy. We had things like 21 from vine and 2+2 is 4. If you look further than number based memes, then there's been a bunch of nonsensical memes like 🅱️
I think I can shed light on the 6 7 hate. To do so though, I need to cover why people are okay with the others. 420 and 69 have been around for ages so they get a pass for being grandfathered and having transgressive origins. Quick maths (2+2 is 4, minus 1 that's 3) got its fame for being an incredibly stupid thing to say in the middle of a rap while also simultaneously going way too hard for how silly it sounds. Lastly you have 21, which was a vine meme so again, a more grounded and community based origin.
What makes 6 7 stand out is that it's from the British school system, and British culture sucks.
I, a mid fifties uncle, dropped a 6 7 reference to my sister whilst my teenaged niece was nearby and got a laugh out of her. Worth it. Embrace the cringe.
I'm genuinely surprised it annoys anyone tbh, it's just a couple of numbers. I laugh when my kids catch me and be as cringey as I can with it at every opportunity. Good harmless fun I can exploit for years to come.
I was at a gathering and someone who is an English teacher said "yeah the 6 7 is so annoying but I can't complain much; the entire maths department is in great distress." I couldn't help myself but the deadpan tone of the delivery just absolutely floored me.
I had to double check and make sure that wasn't the exact image I took this weekend at Aldi and shared with a couple of friends (it wasn't). Real friends don't steal karma that would rightfully have been mine. My kids would have died from extreme eye rolling trauma if I had brought those home from the store.
This is exactly why it's objectively a stupid meme. 69 and 420 are funny because they are subversive. If you saw those numbers you know it was culture because the boomer mainstream wouldn't be marketing sex and drugs to kids, at least not this directly.
It is subvertive, just against the 420/69 culture. It's an anti-joke that only works because 69 was already a huge meme. You're too close to the source material to appreciate that their joke number is at least as good as ours. Plus bonus points because it serves the function of trolling older people in retaliation for all the vague "you'll understand when you're older" they probably got each time they asked about why older people thought 420 or 69 was funny.
The kids are alright. I don't expect them to solve this shit any better than we did, but I expect that there will be some pretty good memes as humanity barrels closer to extinction, collapse, or serfdom (or some combination of those).
"Our counterculture is subversive to subversive counterculture and submits to corporate overlords" isn't that complicated, but is totally on brand for the iPad generation.
Isn't it a gen alpha thing? Not sure any of them are out of high school yet, so I'll forgive them for not recognizing that large parts of what they probably don't even spend much time thinking about could be considered submitting to corporate overlords by others who are paying more attention and have been around longer.
Is it really that deep? It's basically just a self-propelling thing from what I understand it's funny because it's funny and you say it because you say it and if you're exposed to enough eventually you will catch the Mind virus, or at least that's what happened to me
I think it is but doesn't have to be for everyone. This is just my interpretation of the deep lore behind it but not everyone knows or cares about the deep lore.
Last year, kids were saying “6, 7” for no particular reason; it was just a schoolyard meme. Old people like me started saying it. It wasn’t cool anymore because old people aren’t cool. This snack company is trying to ride the hottest trend about twelve months too late.
Typically I'm against poisoning food, and especially food intended for children. However, I am willing to accept that everything is circumstantial, and that there can be good exceptions to all rules.
115 Comments
Klear@piefed.world · 261 pts · 21d
renzhexiangjiao@piefed.blahaj.zone · 53 pts · 21d
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 39 pts · 21d
Jimothy in a nutshell.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 21d
Mmm Jimothy nuggets
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 21d
Jimothy is eternal!
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 21d
Tell that to Harambe
HeyJoe@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 21d
You forgot the middle step. When parents discover it and ruin it, then its companies trying to profit off of it.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 21d
https://www.southparkstudios.co.uk/video-clips/nuxpji/south-park-how-to-kill-a-fad
We know how to destroy them. Spread the word.
Pixel_Jock_17@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 21d
Call me Inuyasha
piyuv@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 21d
Not representative of reality; brand is too cute
bilb@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 21d
lol, I was thinking "brand is exactly my type."
knexcar@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 20d
Adorably chubby?
bilb@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 19d
Pretty much
knexcar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 19d
I love adorably chubby
QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 21d
So in this case it’s a good thing
athatet@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 21d
This happened to me with the word ‘tight’ when I heard it in a hot wheels ad.
ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21d
That reminds me of this sketch
https://youtu.be/dw0ifECyfPI?is=iynQcQ-JoUL9Fru4
SailorFuzz@lemmy.world · 121 pts · 21d
Okay, but.... getting this for my tweenage daughter just to watch her slowly die of cringe would be so worth it.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca · 27 pts · 21d
Do it. Report back.
Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -1 pts · 19d
HikingVet@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 19d
Following me around and leaving this comment
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 12 pts · 21d
Shout it out while dropping her off at school or with friends.
Be relentless.
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 21d
I considering buying these to mess with my kids, but it would have been a declaration of war.
Darkard@lemmy.world · 100 pts · 21d
Me, opening the bag: "Fucks sake, all these are 9's and L's"
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 21d
Hi dad, is that you? Are you planning to come home with the milk anytime soon?
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 21d
You know your dad is never coming home.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 21d
Oh good. This means it's almost over.
Steve@startrek.website · 13 pts · 21d
I got a 67 tshirt at walmart
Sabata11792@ani.social · 50 pts · 21d
Finally, corpos are adopting the meme. They will make it cringe enough to kill it off while milking the corpse dry.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 21d
But the brilliant part is that they aren't selling this shit to kids, they are selling it to parents and there's an extra dynamic of parent trying to make kid happy and kid probably picking up on that and acting happy to please the parent, resulting in the parent buying it more times when neither of them really care about it.
It's insidious and reminds me of those car commercials where they are marketing "a new car will make your teenagers want to spend time with the family instead of their friends" instead of trying to sell the car itself.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 21d
Is that really a plot line in car commercials these days? I've got to see some examples because that's pretty crazy
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 21d
No idea about these days as I don't watch ads these days, but I do remember some minivan or SUV commercials like that back in the 00s and fresh enough off being a teenager that I knew it didn't work like that (or for the ones that would, they were probably already still engaged with the family without needing a new car).
starblursd@lemmy.zip · 48 pts · 21d
Purdue made these as well and I got them to annoy my friends who despise the meme... And my oven's heating element died in protest 😂
db2@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 21d
You have to set it to 420 to reset
yucandu@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21d
Purdue... are they the ones I keep hearing about in the news selling poison chicken and killing their workers? I'm Canadian so our chicken is slightly less poison.
starblursd@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 21d
Shrug E?
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works · 39 pts · 21d
Dad eats all the 69s and leaves the kid with a plate of L.
socsa@piefed.social · 6 pts · 21d
Mom, what's 69?
Mom: ask your dad
Dad: ask your mom.
The aristocrats.
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 21d
"It's two better than 67."
brown567@sh.itjust.works · 33 pts · 21d
Be a lot cheaper to manufacture "69" nuggets. Pick the right font and you'd only need one shape
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 14 pts · 21d
Can also use Star Wars to brand them as "Order 66" nuggets. Or Get Smart with "Agent 99" nuggets.
pulsey@feddit.org · 13 pts · 21d
imagine the disappointment when you only get 6's in your package 😐
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 21d
Just call em Quotes and make em 6's
You may ask why not 9s? Well it's because 7 8 9
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 21d
this sucks i got a bag of really curly 'p's and 'q's
Gumus@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 21d
It'd be really odd if there was no 'd' and 'b', too.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 20d
wait fuck i been throwing those out as defective
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 20d
beter mind your P's and Q's
plateee@piefed.social · 31 pts · 21d
My package was defective it was all "9"s and "L"s.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 21d
Darkard beat us to it.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz · 23 pts · 21d
Hum, look like 69 nuggets with a bunch of L for loser nuggets thrown in for the kids.
okwhateverdude@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 21d
Somehow 66% less protein than real chicken
trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 21d
Don't you mean ...67% ?
okwhateverdude@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 21d
No, why wou-- oh ffs
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 21d
I was going to try those but there must've been some mix-up at the packaging facility because the bag only had 9s and Ls.I was a little too slow.
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 21d
Am I missing a reference there's like three of these comments?
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 21d
No, I posted mine a minute or two after the first one. It wasn't there when I started writing but after commenting, I refreshed the page and saw that I'd been beaten to the joke. The other one might not have read the comments.
Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 21d
Y'all just haters, 67 is just another example of one generation finding and creating their own internet humor, then having every other generation bash on them for it.
Sure it's a bit cringey, but let the kids have their fun. Internet humor doesn't have to be so gatekeepy. We had things like 21 from vine and 2+2 is 4. If you look further than number based memes, then there's been a bunch of nonsensical memes like 🅱️
Dingo_Kidneys@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 21d
I think I can shed light on the 6 7 hate. To do so though, I need to cover why people are okay with the others. 420 and 69 have been around for ages so they get a pass for being grandfathered and having transgressive origins. Quick maths (2+2 is 4, minus 1 that's 3) got its fame for being an incredibly stupid thing to say in the middle of a rap while also simultaneously going way too hard for how silly it sounds. Lastly you have 21, which was a vine meme so again, a more grounded and community based origin.
What makes 6 7 stand out is that it's from the British school system, and British culture sucks.
I rest my case.
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 21d
Yeah 67 is dumb but so was Nyan Cat, It is Wednesday my dudes, dickbutt, Somebody Touched My Spaghet...
Evotech@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 21d
Is the Corporate whoring they cringe at id wager
Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 21d
I forgot to specify but I meant it in the context of the thread. Corporate adoption of memes is never it.
For them,
StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 21d
I, a mid fifties uncle, dropped a 6 7 reference to my sister whilst my teenaged niece was nearby and got a laugh out of her. Worth it. Embrace the cringe.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 21d
I'm genuinely surprised it annoys anyone tbh, it's just a couple of numbers. I laugh when my kids catch me and be as cringey as I can with it at every opportunity. Good harmless fun I can exploit for years to come.
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 21d
Boomer millennials are just upset they're being reminded of how old and out of touch they are
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 21d
LOL
Isn't it past your bedtime, son?
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 21d
Can't handle the always changing definitions in a living language?
You might have boomer attitude.
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 20d
Book the prostate exam old man
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 21d
I was at a gathering and someone who is an English teacher said "yeah the 6 7 is so annoying but I can't complain much; the entire maths department is in great distress." I couldn't help myself but the deadpan tone of the delivery just absolutely floored me.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 21d
I thought the fun of six seven was getting everyone else to bash them for it.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 21d
23 skidoo ol chap!
treesapx@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 21d
You're buying shaped chicken nuggets. You've already surrendered your dignity. There are no "Heroes of Civil Rights" chicken nuggets...
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 21d
well it was your idea so now you gotta do it
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21d
Featuring the famous faces of the civil rights movement so your children can consume them.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21d
"Buy me Cesar Chavez flavor, they really taste better than the Harriet Tubmans"
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 21d
I had to double check and make sure that wasn't the exact image I took this weekend at Aldi and shared with a couple of friends (it wasn't). Real friends don't steal karma that would rightfully have been mine. My kids would have died from extreme eye rolling trauma if I had brought those home from the store.
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 21d
Same actually, lol.
Itwasntme223@discuss.online · 13 pts · 21d
I showed this to my 12 year old child and he gave me the most dramatic eyeroll and said: "Yeeeeahh. Gen alpha has some dumb stuff." lol
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 21d
I was informed this is over.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 21d
If it wasn't, it is now.
HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 21d
I want to see more meme food, it'll be a social experiment.
Thatuserguy@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 21d
The existence of this product is proof there is no lord to give you strength
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 21d
666777
Thatuserguy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 21d
Reygle@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 21d
Burn it all down.
Agent641@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 21d
Turn the universe off and on again
Pacattack57@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 21d
6 🤷🏽♂️ 7
socsa@piefed.social · 6 pts · 21d
This is exactly why it's objectively a stupid meme. 69 and 420 are funny because they are subversive. If you saw those numbers you know it was culture because the boomer mainstream wouldn't be marketing sex and drugs to kids, at least not this directly.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 21d
It is subvertive, just against the 420/69 culture. It's an anti-joke that only works because 69 was already a huge meme. You're too close to the source material to appreciate that their joke number is at least as good as ours. Plus bonus points because it serves the function of trolling older people in retaliation for all the vague "you'll understand when you're older" they probably got each time they asked about why older people thought 420 or 69 was funny.
The kids are alright. I don't expect them to solve this shit any better than we did, but I expect that there will be some pretty good memes as humanity barrels closer to extinction, collapse, or serfdom (or some combination of those).
socsa@piefed.social · 7 pts · 21d
"Our counterculture is subversive to subversive counterculture and submits to corporate overlords" isn't that complicated, but is totally on brand for the iPad generation.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 21d
Isn't it a gen alpha thing? Not sure any of them are out of high school yet, so I'll forgive them for not recognizing that large parts of what they probably don't even spend much time thinking about could be considered submitting to corporate overlords by others who are paying more attention and have been around longer.
socsa@piefed.social · 2 pts · 21d
Sure, things can be stupid and ignorant at the same time.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 21d
Is it really that deep? It's basically just a self-propelling thing from what I understand it's funny because it's funny and you say it because you say it and if you're exposed to enough eventually you will catch the Mind virus, or at least that's what happened to me
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 21d
I think it is but doesn't have to be for everyone. This is just my interpretation of the deep lore behind it but not everyone knows or cares about the deep lore.
ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 21d
They drew a real kid to sell their product. Cringe aside that’s not cool, like even if they pay him
SaucySnake@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 21d
They hired him as a brand ambassador apparently
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 21d
They drew or shoved into ai?
yucandu@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 21d
Is that why the brand name is "Soulless Kitchen"?
nullspace@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 21d
How dare these kids have a meme number. They should only love my meme number.
yucandu@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 21d
I firmly believe you can judge a society by the annual sales of Uncrustables.
lemmygarden@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 21d
Have you tried Uncrustables?
SeptugenarianSenate@leminal.space · 1 pts · 21d
They aight but I have also never had one heated up
lemmygarden@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 21d
Which flavor is your favorite?
SeptugenarianSenate@leminal.space · 1 pts · 19d
I’m partial to strawberry jelly over grape in most contexts, though I only ever had the strawberry one of those
lemmygarden@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 19d
Do you remove the crust on your uncrustable?
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 20d
Okay. So where are the F7U12 Tendies?
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 21d
Lemmy fights back:
jjj@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 21d
On a related but backwards note:
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 3 pts · 21d
The sixty nine nugs are better.
SalamiDommie@lemmus.org · 2 pts · 21d
Dino Nuggets or circles, diamonds, and boot thingy.
Strips and tendies are acceptable too.
lemmygarden@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 21d
sky daddy can't hear your cries
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 21d
Bottle cappers
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 20d
I don't get it.
JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 20d
Last year, kids were saying “6, 7” for no particular reason; it was just a schoolyard meme. Old people like me started saying it. It wasn’t cool anymore because old people aren’t cool. This snack company is trying to ride the hottest trend about twelve months too late.
Abyssian@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 21d
Typically I'm against poisoning food, and especially food intended for children. However, I am willing to accept that everything is circumstantial, and that there can be good exceptions to all rules.
FluidBeef@quokk.au · 0 pts · 21d
Gooner Bites
FatVegan@leminal.space · 0 pts · 21d
Some tortured animals who has never seen sunlight shaped in 6 and 7... You know, for kids.