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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.
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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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
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!
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.
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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
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It means that the ultimate question to life, the universe, and everything is what is 6 times 7
I see you had a functional scrabble bag to pull from.
We had Pauly Shore and valleyspeak so I really can't say anything about any other generations slang.
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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.
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It means 42. Life, universe, all that...
Kids don't even know they're referencing a great author.
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I assumed it was a why is 6 afraid of 7 thing.
Because 7 is a registered 6 offender.
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....
Know what's funnier than 24..?
Its from rap its referring to a 1067 some guy boasting about killing someone
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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.
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