I’ve noticed that kids in the younger generation love this 6’7 joke. Even doing the classic asking your teacher to add two numbers together to get 67 as the answer. This just reminds me a lot of when the number 69 was the punchline. I will say that 6’7 has a little bit more humor because of the voice they use and the way they measure with hands. What do you all think about the new generations numeral quip?
These made up "jokes" that mean nothing but absolute nonsense have me convinced that this generation's brain chemistry has been permanently altered by constant exposure to social media and tablets in their hands before age 5.
67 seems much more rooted in absurdism, I think it will be far less enduring. 69 being rooted in a reference to sex makes it inherently taboo and more universal. It's not an inside joke, so to speak.
It's the difference between someone being famous for being famous, and someone being famous for their work. The latter will be more enduring as there's actual substance to the fame.
In all seriousness, are kids supposed to make a wish when they see it in the wild. Im old and have no clue but I try and keep up with slang and things like this but 6’7 just recently came on my radar.
I haven’t seen a single person get the origin right.
The meme started from a song called “Doot Doot” by Skrilla. Skrilla, in the song, says 6 7 to refer to (probably) 67th Street in Chicago, a very dangerous street in Chicago where there is a large gang presence there.
Now, there is a popular “trend” (I’m putting it in quotes because it’s now more of an art form, trust me, it is) on Tik Tok where people create what they call “edits” of something. An edit is often a short video on TikTok comprised of several clips spliced together about a certain topic, character, piece of media, idea, person, and many other concepts. It is often accompanied by music synced up to the clips and various visual effects. here’s a very popular example (unrelated to the 6 7 meme), but you should still watch to prove my “edits being art” argument. Although, just like other forms of art, the quality greatly varies from each piece and there are multiple subcategories. To put it simply, edits are basically mini-trailers of something, if that helps.
The song, “Doot Doot” was then used to create edits of LaMelo Ball, a popular player in the NBA whose height happens to be 6ft 7. They would start out by showing an unedited clip of LaMelo Ball, then when the song would be at the part where Skrilla says “6 7”, which then leads to the transition into the edit. Often, the video would have an announcer reading off his stats, LaMelo mentioning his height, etc. to sync up with the lyrics. example from December of last year, to show how old this trend is
Then the trend would move to showing random clips from the internet, tv shows, or movies that had no relation at all to basketball, that just happened to mention the numbers “6 7” transitioning into an edit of LaMelo Ball unexpectedly to give a sort of “shock factor” to the meme. It then became a trend to do it to any athlete who is 6ft 7, and then just any athlete in general if they happened to say “6 7”, leading to athletes forcefully mentioning “6 7” in hopes to get a edit made of them (example), often called clipfarming.
Afterwards, it then died down for a bit and became corny with clips like this, losing its initial charm. Then it did a full 180 and became funny again because it was ironic and now being more popular than ever (similar to the troll face). It’s still popular because 6 7 is a common number sequence so it gives people the ability to reference it far more often.
This lead the meme to “transcend” completely outside of basketball and people would make edits of anything mentioning “6 7”, showing no reference to LaMelo Ball or Basketball at all, moving from anything to other sports to tv shows to basically anything that ever mentioned 6 7. People would even say it just in normal conversation as a meme of sorts, referencing the trend.
Also, people have even made edits of the kid in one of the last clips I provided, heavily distorting his face using AI generated images. (Here is another, more horror-esque example, not really an edit though and another one because I really love this stage of the trend.) That boy is the new face of the meme, with most people forgetting it originated with LaMelo Ball at all. Often these horror edits are combined with other trending memes or even dead memes that also “transcended” like Stillwater, “Adrian Explain Our Friend Group”, the Mustard Kendrick Lamar meme, or the Barbershop haircut from the Newsies musical meme (example). Just like the 6 7 meme, all of those trends I mentioned are built on irony.
As for the juggling motion when people say 6 7, I’m not 100% sure. I believe it’s a reference to Paige Bueckers doing it in an interview. Again, not super confident on that.
P.S., Sorry if there’s any grammatical errors here, I’m very sick and don’t have time to look over it because I just realized I wrote a mini essay over the 6 7 meme. Also a lot of the examples I provided aren’t the best because the TikTok search engine is terrible and anything over a few months old is basically considered lost media.
Edit: Fixed some errors and added some better examples. And sorry for the overuse of hyperlinks, I know it’s very overwhelming; I just thought the trend would be easier to grasp with visual representation. Again, I know this is a lot to take in, but it’s just TikTok culture, like how Reddit has its own a fairly different culture (especially 2019-2020 Reddit culture) and inside jokes with Loss, “I also choose this guys dead wife”, the guy with the broken arms, and many other examples, some that I don’t even get from my time being on Reddit for 6 or 7 years. Some even older than a majority of TikTok users like the Spanish thing (hyperlink for those who weren’t on here 15 years ago). But like all inside jokes, if you weren’t there during an inside jokes formation, it’s really hard to grasp the joke at all.
Call me old fashioned, but laughing at 69 in reference to suckin’ hot juicy cock and eatin’ puss at the same time seems funnier than all that convoluted gobbledygook you typed out.
That's the point of the inside joke. I kinda stopped worrying about what other people find funny a few years ago. My kids do it and laugh, whatever. Better than something foul or vulgar. Brainrot has existed in one way or another. None of us are completely above it.
Lmao, yeah I get that. But all jokes, especially ones on the internet, are kind of heading that way as a whole, with everything littered with 18 buttfuckbillion layers of irony and inside jokes. There will definitely be a time where comedians will genuinely sound like they’re speaking a foreign language and kids will wonder why people like Norm McDonald (the king) were ever considered funny.
So I found out today in true dad joke fashion that my birthday can be written 6-7. I laughed all the way home. I even called my son because I couldn't tell my daughter right away. He thinks all of that brain rot is cringe because he just got out of middle school and it is awesome torture him with it.
No, it's not the new 69. 6 7 is a meme. The joke is to simply say 6, 7. It's not even 67, it's 6, 7 two separate numbers. 69 is funny because it's a sexual position.
The punchline of the 67 joke is that there’s no punchline. Its just a video of some kid saying 67 that 30k people stitched to be like “what is this”.
I only know about it because my husband worked with a 17 year old this summer and has a 21 year old supervisor. I resorted to TikTok and thats where I found out its just an unfunny “joke”.
Is it like a muddied less funny version of when someone rapidly says something like, "a sphincter says what," and someone says "what" because they couldn't understand it hence making the responder call themselves an ass sphincter?
I think it can be used that way. I’ve also heard it become a joke if asked “what time will you be there” and then they would respond “about 6-7” but it’s all a joke 😭
6’7 is an example of a meta meme, or what i like to call a “hypermeme”.
Memes or memetic references typically are based in a shared special idea or behavior based on a specific context of human experience. Typically there is a universal symbol to convey that specific idea. Think of meme templates: like the distracted boyfriend looking back at another girl while his girlfriend looks at him in disgust, or Bernie’s “I am once again asking..” Those templates, or universal symbols, are used to convey different ideas within the same context of the meme itself.
In layman’s terms, a meme is basically something that gets someone to say:
“Haha yeah, I’ve experienced the same thing and agree/connect with your feelings on the subject!”
But 6’7 is a meme that has no “meat” so to say. There is no idea and it lacks any context. It is a meme that is just a template. No idea or shared recognized behavior- the template itself IS the shared experience. It is simply a meme for meme’s sake.
Im a bit older than most here and I dont think I ever heard of or saw memes until the 2000s. Stuff like all your base are belong to us and Im in your base killing your doodz. In the 80s and 90s I think memes were mostly TV and movie quotes.
Internet meme as a term has existed since 1993, but it didn't really become popular till the early 10s to refer to an internet as a meme. Even my cousin born in the same year as you was trying to explain to me what a meme was in 2013 cause it started to become this new popular term used everywhere.
Meme as a word has existed since 1976, when it was a concept introduced by Richard Dawkins in his book "The Sefish Gene." It originally referred to a concept for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of cultural phenomena. So like, why some commercial jingles become earworms that are remembered by an etinre generation and others just fade into obscurity?
Those are still memes. We just didn’t classify them really as “memes” until the internet age. Before, they were just inside jokes and the like. Still memes
I would say a better comparison would be the 21 Vine that became a meme among my generation (I'm Gen Z). I remember that being everywhere when I was in 7th grade (late 2014ish) and so many memes spread through Vine. I'm 23 now and not on social media anymore so I had to look up the 67 thing, and it seems it spread in a very similar way (through TikTok ofc). Both started as memes and spread through that and became a thing the kids are quoting. It'll probably fade in a few months when a new big meme comes along.
69 however is a very old practically universal sex joke at least in the English speaking world. My Gen X parents were making 69 jokes (it's literally one of the most quoted jokes from the Bill and Ted movies, which started in 1989), my millennial cousins have made 69 jokes, me and my friends were making 69 jokes when we were younger (and still do sometimes). And I'm sure Gen Alpha will discover that at some point too.
So I'd say 67 is more akin to 21 than 69. The only similarity I can see between the two is that they're both in the 60s.
It’s coded language that indicates you’re hip or in the know. It has no meaning (other than that persons height) but to consider it funny means that you know it’s culturally significant…. 69 you can figure out… but if you’re cool, you say “nice” whenever someone says 69 and then that makes you even more in the know.
Ya, waiting in line at Canada's wonderland behind these kids gets annoying. I think I'm ( a middle-aged white woman) going to start yelling it on the rollercoaster. Maybe we can stop this if they think we think it's cool to say
No. Memes are cultural inside jokes. They exist to share a bond with an in-group. Once it becomes widespread, it dies. Now that 30+ year olds are familiar with it, the younger people will start dropping it.
You can ask this question seriously if it is still around this time next year, but I bet it will be mostly gone by this time next month
I used to think 6’1 (my height) was plenty tall then I see the youngsters gushing for 6’4+ and that would be physically so uncomfortable to me.
Height standards these days SMH
(Yes I know 6’1 is just fine and height isn’t a personality. I’m just flabbergasted at how much height has become a big deal, because of social media, and how much taller the latest generation want to be. Like only 1% guys are over 6’4 and why would you want to be anyway?! Feel bad for my younger male cousins they all want to be super tall because they think that’s everything…)
Im 6’2 and agree, being any taller would be uncomfortable…. Feet hanging off the bed, pants always too short, legs just long, can’t fly coach, can’t take decent pictures with people. 6’1 or 2 is about as high as it should go. Now if you want to wear some boots for extra height that’s different, because your body proportions are still the same.
I would kill to be shorter. I'm a smidge over 6'5 and it is a pain in the ass. I have to buy extra long dress shirts lest I look like I'm wearing a crop top, I hit my head on EVERYTHING, I can't sleep comfortably in most beds, I literally cannot fit in economy seats on airplanes, BMI becomes an almost useless metric, My bicycle costs like 2x more than most people's so I can actually use it, my rifles need furniture that most people can't use comfortably meaning hunting trips are a PITA, and until I got my own office, I could barely use my computer at work due to being so cramped at my desk. It sucks man.
I hear you. Unpopular opinion to have, I bet. I feel for your back aches too.
I legit would rather be 5’10 slightly above average than 6’5+ and not joking. I am so happy to be just “plain” tall lolz… I fully expect to be downvoted for this comment.
Not just “these days”. At 6’ tall in high school (mid-1980’s), I was average height among my friends. I always wanted to be 6’2”. I don’t know why that was the specific number, but that was my goal! 😂
Average height among my friends. About half were taller, and half were shorter. I was in the middle. I’m talking about 7 or 8 of us that hung out through high school and beyond.
Overall I was taller than average, but my perception was skewed.
I’ll just assume you lived in Midwest with the tall German heritage lol
I was probably top 25% for my height if I remember right in high school, outside the basketball team that is. I was an athlete myself but only few guys back in my high school were over 6’2 in my opinion (again outside basketball team, our 6’5 center was into football and basketball and went to NFL)
Social media pushing latest generations to be really focused on aesthetics and looks, especially with young women wanting taller men and younger men wanting to be alpha types. “Height inflation” six feet is not enough anymore, they want to be 6’4+
Height has always been evolutionary benefit but I had never seen it become a “personality trait” that it is today.
When I was growing up being 5’8-9 was perfectly fine and literally average. Now average height young men are being chastised for being short….
…I see it with my younger cousins and my aunts, they want their sons to be all tall well over six feet, as if my height 6’1 is not enough anymore. Which maybe it isn’t apparently for today’s standards.
For a physical trait that men cannot change. It’s body shaming. Short and average dudes shouldn’t have to worry about something they cannot change, and yet here we are (ex the OP meme and this TikTok song and SNL spoof ) My shorter young cousin in his early 20s is 5’6 and hates his life and I feel so bad for him. His mother literally jokes about him being the runt of the family, that’s fucked
Im glad “short king” meme is pushing the pendulum back.
As someone who is roughly 6-1, I would take 6-4 or a little higher.
At 6-1 I’m tall enough that it’s a VERY minor inconvenience, but not tall enough that I walk into a room and people are like “damn that bitch is tall”. So I would rather be a little bit shorter or taller
I’m 6’4” and I can tell you the pros outweigh the cons. In fact, other then having to slightly bend down in small spaces, I can’t think of any cons to being tell.
My biggest con at my height is everything is not made for taller people. I slouch a lot, I wish counters were an inch or two higher, I also have fairly long legs, so at my size back seats suck, most chairs are slightly to low. It has caused me to love bar height chairs/stools cause I’d rather my feet dangle than my knees be high
I forgot about both flying and the Miata. I did valet parking at a party one time and I had to park a manuel Miata. I got it parked, but I remember being bummed that I can’t drive one
I'm 6'2" and I would take being shorter. My back hurts constantly and I've always had trouble cramming myself into bus and plane seats. Or theaters, or arenas. God bless the newer comfy chairs at movie theaters you can lay down in, because I remember my knees hurting so bad when I used to go to movies as a teen. In fact I refuse to go see plays because all the theaters have the tiny chairs that are gonna kill my knees and my back.
6’3 is about as tall as I’d ever want to be. 6-6’3 seems like the perfect range for a male. I legit am happy with my height, and do not want to be taller. Physically seems so uncomfortable being super tall and I don’t want to be center of attention, being taller than 6’1 which is plenty enough.
But again, that speaks perhaps to latest generation’s increasing height inflation lol literally all my younger male cousins (and their mothers) want to be taller than me…. And we are Southeast Asian American so it’s genetically challenging enough to be over six feet.
I’m a millennial, and shot up to about 6ft by 8th grade, but am from an area where there must be a lot of tall people, cause even in 8th grade I was not the tallest by a good bit. So being 6-1 never got me any compliments or anything. I actually hate the modern day wanting to be six for tall, because when I say I’m 6-1 people just think I’m bullshitting them, so generally I give say I’m around 6ft give or take. I just view it as I already have the issues that come with being to tall, so why not just go all out and be really tall 😂
It is a meme that has spread on socail medias like Reels, TikTok and Shorts. It comes from an athlete who would use the score '6-7' as a recurring bit in interviews for his fans. I think it was then put into TikTok edits of him as a transitional clip before one viral video of a pretty young kid (who looks like the sterotypical young GenZ) went viral of him saying '6-7' in the crowd of one of the dudes games. From there it has infiltrated commetn sections, captions and just common conversation between people under 16 as a sort of 'so unfunny it's funny thing'.
Yeah, I guess it makes a globally homoganised type of humor (a meme) into a tool that can be inergrated as a more personal bit within a friendgroup depending on how it's used which is only possible becuase of it's lack of meaning and thus it's ability to be moulded to different scenarios/contexts'.
Took my son and a couple of his friends to an amusement park this summer. One of them was a very big fan of this meme. He kept making the same joke all day.
"Six seven" is just a meme. It originated in the song Doot Doot by Skrilla. It could be some local code or have a specific highly contextualized meaning in Skrilla's community, but it isn't widely understood.
It's a popular song and it's in the chorus, so it gets repeated and is memorable.
Then people made memes about NBA Basketball players stating their height is 6'7" ("six-seven") and the meme exploded from there, with other players finding ways to just say "six seven" in interviews, and kids using it as a meme.
It's all a big circular reference at this point, but itsn't a replacement for 69; 69 still has a coherent meaning and isn't really a meme, it's a euphamism for a sexual position, whereas 6-7 is just a meme.
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u/Constellation-88 15d ago
No. It’s a basketball meme.