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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 Mamma
Joe Biden
I still want 2 CDs!
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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!
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
fuck your couch
Oh it all makes sense now
Shady JD took that as a suggestion.
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.
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
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
you’re breaking my balls with that
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.
what is six times nine, canonically
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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…
In my language, “6 7” reads “six sept”, which sounds like “cis het”, a shorten form for “cisgender heterosexual”.
“my language” - this guy trying to sneak french in here without us noticing!
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.
You mean to tell me that the language where one says 3x20+7 to say sixty seven makes 6-7 mean something?!
Excuse me. But the French damn well have a word for sixty: soixante. And the counting keeps going normally right up to 70, which reads as Sixty Ten. That goes up to Sixty Nineteen, and THEN Four Twenties.
That’s honestly so much more cursed than I thought! I seriously thought that in French it was just pure base20 but nope!
Of course! The French language is so meaningless that sometimes things actually mean something.
Know what’s funnier than 24…?
It means 42. Life, universe, all that…
Kids don’t even know they’re referencing a great author.
6*7 would be the question, silly.
6-7 = -1 not 42 you silly goose.
Sure, but what do you get if you multiply six by nine?
An orgasm.
I’m not certain that’s accurate.
You don’t even math modulo 42 do you?
Modulo 43, otherwise -1 would be congruent to 41
Surprise zero indexing
Only if you read if left to right.
7-6=unity, oh it’s code for communism!
I assumed it was a why is 6 afraid of 7 thing.
Because 7 is a registered 6 offender.
23 skidoo
fnord
Wow, theres a subgenius word I haven’t heard in a long time.
Did SubGenius use it? It definitely started as Discordian.
That’s true, I forgot that as well. By the time I was seeing it in the 90s it was embedded with the Subgenus guys (which overlaps pretty heavily with Discordianism IMO) so that’s who I always associate it with. But forgot it was earlier/separate.
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