Meme spread on Tiktok thanks to videos of basketball player Lamelo Ball. Not even the biggest joke fans know for sure what it means.
After having such as “skbid“, Which was inspired by a video of a man’s face (yes, seriously) or“Ohio“, Which associates everything strange or“ ackons ”with the US state for no apparent reason, there is a new addition to the vocabulary of the alpha generation that has been popularized online: 6 7 “It is not read as sixty -seven, but before as six, seven.”
The term dates back to rapper Skrilla’s music (6 7), in which the words “Six Seven” are repeatedly unknown. The excerpt was quickly cut and amplified on social networks, especially in Tiktok, where users clung to numbers as a absurd joke.
The popularity exploded when music came to creators of basketball content, especially in the videos made with the NBA star Lamelo Ball. The fact that Ball is 2 meters high (6’7 ”in feet) only contributed to the dissemination of meme.
@madebyhezi cred to @matt_grinblat for intro #lameloball #basketball #srilla ♬ original sound – 🌟
But what does “6 7” really mean? The short answer is nothing. Depending on the user and your intention, it can serve as a random comment, a joke about heights or a way to label something like normal or “median”. His appeal while meme resides precisely in the resistance to definition – any attempt to define it rigidly runs the risk of mood.
Teachers, however, are undergoing the impact of fashion. Some report listening to the phrase shouted so often during class that they completely banned it. A teacher from New Wales in the South, Australia, said to which he initially tried to participate in the joke, but quickly frustrated: “It’s that whole thing about “Brain Rot” (brain rot). They cannot explain what it means. This is my opinion. ”
Others chose to adopt the trend and use it as a teaching tool. A math teacher said she now counts up to five and expects her students to scream back “6… 7”, turning the interruption at a time to rekindle children’s interest in class.
A 5th grade teacher was also interested, making jokes about reading pages “6 and 7” before referring students back to class and even turned fashion into a writing challenge, asking students that explain the origin of slang in exactly 67 words.
For many adults, the phenomenon is a reminder of the generational division in humor. Although parents can find this meaningless, for children, “6 7” is a fun word, a form of signal belonging to your social circles online e offline.
Ultimately, “6 7” has less to do with meaning than shared fun. As with Many slang from the internetEspecially with the alpha generation, its power lies in its absurdity – an internal joke that unites those inside, while leaving the rest of people confused.
