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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.
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.
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
That makes sense. Those same people I know saying it all the time also send me tiktok links I never open.
Near as I can tell, there’s nothing nefarious at all about it. Rightwingers like it for the same reason children do
They love their shibboleths.
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.
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.
Know what’s funnier than 24…?
It may not mean anything, but I was able to find out its origin, which was good enough for me.
And…?
baba booey
I lost my faith in the “new word” committee for ‘Big Dictionary’.
They don’t decide what a new word is, just document usage. And if it gets used enough, well…
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.”
wtf.
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
yeah i forgot to mention the song. but the basketball game was what memed it.
This meme is like a Rosetta stone for genz communication
That rings true… because I don’t know what half of it means. :-P
Joe out there with the detonator about to blow them up
Joe? Joe who?
Joe Nuts
Joe Mamma
Joe Biden
GOT EEM
I still want 2 CDs!
It means that the ultimate question to life, the universe, and everything is what is 6 times 7
what is six times nine, canonically
Eek! There’s mice on the table!
Yeah, Arthur definitely did not have the great question in him.
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?
Also, the planet was infected by a virus. Its processes got corrupted, so of course the output is bad.
Five four.
four two.
I see you had a functional scrabble bag to pull from.
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
fuck your couch
Oh it all makes sense now
Shady JD took that as a suggestion.
No, this one is uniquely incomprehensible
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
“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.
Born too late to get a degree in Webchaerolgy. :(
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).
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”
Kilroy was here. A vintage cartoon meme from the midcentury; quite rare these days.
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
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.
I fucking dig it. Surrealist slang is the best. We had our own shit like that too.
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.
Then explain it! What does 6-7 mean? Because even though people might use it wrong, “Fuck your couch” actually means something.
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.
Never yelled random stuff. It was never a thing. And WTF is Fuck your couch never heard of 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.
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.
Does the hand gesture mean anything?
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
The equivalent of saying “Ayyyy” because The Fonz said it.
We are living in the dumbest times imaginable, so I find this quite fitting.
i’m sure there’s other folks here who remember No soap, radio!
In my day. we just quoted Monty Python and everyone would laugh at how clever you were. This is effectively the same thing.
No one expects the 6-7 imposition!
I suppose memes have always been memes, but they were simply auditory before
That’s a “catch phrase”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catchphrase#History
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
Wait a sec… I never said that first one. JD is that you?
I never rubbed my feet on Charlie Murphy’s Couch…
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
you’re breaking my balls with that
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?
Like, has anyone lost the game recently?
Not since XKCD #391. You’re welcome.
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.
I remember being annoyed at kids being dumb when I was a kid. Honestly it bothers me less now.
And the only way to kill it is for adults to start saying it, usually incorrectly, as much as possible.
That would be pretty 6-7 of us adults to do.
We could shorten it to negative one because that’s six minus seven and shortening things and having to explain them makes them cooler
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.
Almost like it’s imaginary
6-7 makes no sense because the root of 6-7 is literally imaginary 🤯
No, that’s the square root of negative one.
They are. Been to a sporting event with young kids.
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 just lost the game
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!
“Nut check!” [Blinding agony]
What’s the capital of Thailand?
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.
We used to have a “Guess what?” “What?” “Nope!” routine going as kids. I still laugh at that one for no valid reason.
Holds up spork
My spoon is too big!
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
Just saw a language Jones video about exactly this. Pretty much echoed the same thing.
Should probably link it here: https://youtu.be/laZpTO7IFtA
Lo ciento
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.
I think that’s why the song was originally used in basketball TikToks.
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.
6-7 or 10-67 is a police code often in reference to report a dead body.
Codes vary dramatically from one jurisdiction to the next.
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
Skrilla* the drill artist, not Skrillex the dubstep artist lmao
haha I stand corrected
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
We had Pauly Shore and valleyspeak so I really can’t say anything about any other generations slang.
calling it slang is…a stretch.
I guess it was kind of a whole vernacular, but there was a lot of slang in there. Oh you mean the OP… yes I suppose lol.
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The real meaning:
a plausible explanation with an excellent linguistic deep dive on the entire vernacular terrain.
TYVM for the link.
I was coming to post this
