What does that even mean?
What does that even mean?
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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.
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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?
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Like, has anyone lost the game recently?
Not since XKCD #391. You're welcome.
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And the only way to kill it is for adults to start saying it, usually incorrectly, as much as possible.
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"Nut check!" [Blinding agony]
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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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Holds up spork
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I remember being annoyed at kids being dumb when I was a kid. Honestly it bothers me less now.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Just saw a language Jones video about exactly this. Pretty much echoed the same thing.
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Should probably link it here: https://youtu.be/laZpTO7IFtA
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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.
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I think that's why the song was originally used in basketball TikToks.
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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.
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Millennials losing their minds over this when we used to shout 'fuck your couch!' and Rick James, removed! all the time, before memes were a thing.
I suppose memes have always been memes, but they were simply auditory before
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In my day. we just quoted Monty Python and everyone would laugh at how clever you were. This is effectively the same thing.
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No one expects the 6-7 imposition!
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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.
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I fucking dig it. Surrealist slang is the best. We had our own shit like that too.
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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.
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We are living in the dumbest times imaginable, so I find this quite fitting.
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i'm sure there's other folks here who remember No soap, radio!
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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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Wait a sec... I never said that first one. JD is that you?
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I never rubbed my feet on Charlie Murphy's Couch....
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
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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
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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).
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"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.
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fuck your couch
Oh it all makes sense now
Shady JD took that as a suggestion.
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Kilroy was here. A vintage cartoon meme from the midcentury; quite rare these days.
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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
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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
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you're breaking my balls with that
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It means that the ultimate question to life, the universe, and everything is what is 6 times 7
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I see you had a functional scrabble bag to pull from.
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what is six times nine, canonically
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We had Pauly Shore and valleyspeak so I really can't say anything about any other generations slang.
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calling it slang is....a stretch.
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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:
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a plausible explanation with an excellent linguistic deep dive on the entire vernacular terrain.
TYVM for the link.
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I was coming to post this
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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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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
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That makes sense. Those same people I know saying it all the time also send me tiktok links I never open.
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I assumed it was a why is 6 afraid of 7 thing.
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Because 7 is a registered 6 offender.
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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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6*7 would be the question, silly.
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In my language, "6 7" reads "six sept", which sounds like "cis het", a shorten form for "cisgender heterosexual".
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"my language" - this guy trying to sneak french in here without us noticing!
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You mean to tell me that the language where one says 3x20+7 to say sixty seven makes 6-7 mean something?!
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It was an attempt not to always emphasize the fact of being French.
But obviously, even in good faith, humility does not suit us well.
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Oh no! GET THEM!
crash sound, cat screeching, sacre bleu, car horn
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I lost my faith in the "new word" committee for 'Big Dictionary'.
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They don't decide what a new word is, just document usage. And if it gets used enough, well....
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Know what's funnier than 24..?
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Its from rap its referring to a 1067 some guy boasting about killing someone
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Yep, it's from Doot Doot, by Skrilla, and made its way from rap, to basketball (meaning to coldly score against someone or out perform them)... And now white people are saying it thinking it just means nothing because the internet is kooky.
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Hell yeah, 106.7 kroq!
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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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baba booey
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67 is my favorite current meme.
My understanding: It means the opposite of 42. And it gets funnier every time someone is baffled by it.
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From what I understand, it's a reference to a hip hop song that got popular on tick tock that has 67 mentioned in it because that is the police code for body found
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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)
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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."
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wtf.
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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
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yeah i forgot to mention the song. but the basketball game was what memed it.
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It may not mean anything, but I was able to find out its origin, which was good enough for me.
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Well it's the kiddo lingo, just like goo goo gaa gaa they always mean nothing.
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I feel like this just shows how far brainrot has gotten