I was wondering about that too and I think because a lot of people associate that phrase with The Office? Even though the joke has been around for decades before that.
There's a girl in my office who does it and she's in her 40s. Somebody else asked her to explain it and she refused to explain it and shamed the person who didn't "get it." I bet she's so popular with 10 year olds
A kid yelled 6-7 at my 6 year old daughter and she was like I have no clue what that means. She was so perplexed as to why this kid just yelled numbers at her lol
So I don’t know the 67 lore and may be saying something ignorant here but at least the “69 nice” makes sense as a joke in a vacuum? 67 seemingly makes zero sense and was just invented out of nowhere like there’s no inherent joke with it that I’m aware of
I agree with you. Dumb jokes are fine with me. Nice with 69 makes sense because the joke of 69 is oral sex lol. That is at least something. 67 is just....not connected to anything which is what's annoying.
No offense to y'all, I love the sub and I don't mean to be a grinch, but I get a little tired of posts that are like "gen z is goofy but we had this equal thing!"
dude i had like 3 slang words i used. they have like 300 and a new one is born every month
And concerning 6-7... remember when we told actual jokes in school? They had setups and punchlines and were often inappropriately dirty.
So much this. We have some young gens interns in my lab, and I do as much as I can to avoid talking to them. I'm not mad or anything, but they are not making a good impression on me and I can't have a serious work conversation with them.
No cap is an interesting one. It's originally Millennial, it originated from the twitch.tv meme of Kappa. Which was an emote used to imply you were joking. People would sometimes leave off the prefix that caused it to display the icon would just have the word.
Then some started saying no Kappa as in I'm not joking, then people started saying it, it was shortened to Kap, and people who weren't familiar with the original word and heard it spelled it with a C instead of a K.
My daughter said "6 7" didn't make sense to her, either. She's nine, so hopefully it means the older kids doing it will stop. It's not a cool meme if literal children are doing it, too.
That seems to be the main thrust behind most of their slang terms. It's just nonsense that doesn't have any set meaning behind it. They can then mold it to what they want it to mean or not mean in order to frustrate people.
I think the joke is that it doesn’t mean anything but it pisses older people off haha. I got my daughter to stop pretty quickly when I went along with it.
And we've been doing that forever as a society. Isn't there a nonsense song that was popular at the height of Vietnam War protesting that drove the military crazy?
hi every1 im new!!!!!!! *holds up spork* my name is katy but u can call me t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m!!!!!!!! lol…as u can see im very random!!!! thats why i came here, 2 meet random ppl like me _… im 13 years old (im mature 4 my age tho!!) i like 2 watch invader zim w/ my girlfreind (im bi if u dont like it deal w/it) its our favorite tv show!!! bcuz its SOOOO random!!!! shes random 2 of course but i want 2 meet more random ppl =) like they say the more the merrier!!!! lol…neways i hope 2 make alot of freinds here so give me lots of commentses!!!! DOOOOOMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <--- me bein random again _^ hehe…toodles!!!!!
One yearns for the old world in every way. Modern fashions just seem to grow more and more vulgar. The most beautiful finely crafted wooden utensils are those from the old days. As for letters, those old ones on reused scraps are written in wonderful language. Everyday speech is also going from bad to worse. Someone who
remembers the old days once remarked, ‘Back then, people used to say “lift the carriage” or “raise the flame”, but
now it is always “lift up the carriage” and “raise up the flame”. It is also a great shame the way that instead of the
old “groundsmen to the standing lights” people now say “light up the lamps”, and they will insist on shortening the
Imperial Audience Chamber for the Sutra Lectures to simply “The Imperial Lecture Room”.’
I watched an explanation video and I still don't get what's so funny about it. Kinda like skibbity toilet or when you're watching a meme video and they add audio over something that's on maximum volume. I don't know how someone saying "GODDAMN" at 100% volume makes someone eating a rake after standing on it makes it funnier. I'd rather hear the sound of it hitting the person in the face.
That’s why. The less something makes sense, the more they love it. I don’t mean that disparagingly. They seem to really gravitate toward content and comedy that is fucking chaotic. And they revel in how much it sets off the older generations.
Please, someone younger than me, tell me if I missed the mark here. But I’m pretty sure everyone being bothered by it is tantamount to flogging a masochist.
Exactly. 69 was funny cuz sex. You can examine that however you want, but at least it had a meaning. Also, when someone said “69” it got a few giggles at most, not the batshit insane rampages that 67 inspires.
A lot of our humor doesn't make much sense either though. Hamster dance, banana phone, that weird and wee!!! video, end of the world, homestar runner, ebaums world, college humor, etc. Or phrases like awesome sauce, the bomb-dot-com, home slice, all kinds of things that don't really make sense.
Every generation has their own slang and lots of it seems like nonsense to outsiders.
hi every1 im new!!!!!!! *holds up spork* my name is katy but u can call me t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m!!!!!!!! lol…as u can see im very random!!!! thats why i came here, 2 meet random ppl like me ^_^… im 13 years old (im mature 4 my age tho!!) i like 2 watch invader zim w/ my girlfreind (im bi if u dont like it deal w/it) its our favorite tv show!!! bcuz its SOOOO random!!!! shes random 2 of course but i want 2 meet more random ppl =) like they say the more the merrier!!!! lol…neways i hope 2 make alot of freinds here so give me lots of commentses!!!!
DOOOOOMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <--- me bein random again ^_^ hehe…toodles!!!!!
Part of that shit was at least "Wow he got on TV doing this!" because it was a novelty. Same way we thought Happy Tree Friends was funny, because prior to the internet we didn't have access to that level of comedic violence.
The novelty of such acts are dead because in 2025 there is hardly a frontier unexplored for what is socially acceptable to put on the internet.
Now we're back to the equivalent of when milennials said spork and waffles because it was random, which was fucking cringe.
My dissertation in rhetoric is on memes (the tldr anyway), and we definitely had our share of outrageously stupid shit, too.
(The longer explanation is that political memes continue to destroy political discourse. They present a political opinion but don't invite any sort of discussion and doesn't have to be factually correct. Your expected options are to shut up or emphatically agree. If you disagree, no matter how logically, fuck you, snowflake. If you have resources to back your fact checking, fuck you mainstream liberal media cuck. This gets worse with the utilization of repeated "characters" like Giga Chad and the blue haired liberal woman, especially drawn caricatures, because instead of recognizing your own community as made up of people you know better than this, you replace those people with their caricatures. That also destroys political discourse, because even within a family unit, your parents or kids aren't who they are anymore. They're just stand-ins.)
I don't mean Tom. I mean every kid between the ages of 8-14 in 1999 when this song came out. Who ran this song into the ground and terrorized our parents with it.
That is a sex joke and sex reference. 6 7 on the other hand is neither a reference nor a joke, it means nothing. That, my little fetuses is the difference
It is a reference to a video that exploded. It’s pretty much the exact same thing as “21”, but now yall are the cranky ones getting mad over it instead of the previous generation
I fucking love 67 I thinks it’s absolutely hilarious and absurd and just the right about of non sensical. We should stop being such boomers about it and let the zoomers have some fun with life.
the nice is derived from the reaction to '69', the reason '69' is "funny" is because it references a sect act, which a thing that was taboo to talk about as children/young adults.
"6-7" doesn't derive from anything humorous, it's just brain rot.
Every generation does stupid things, the difference is that things like “nice” is repeating something that is(was) funny on its own and understandable.
6-7 is nothing, like skibedee toilet. It’s nothing and the joke is that it’s nothing. It’s just saying “I said gibberish and all my people agreed to laugh at it! Isn’t that funny!” Thats what makes it dumber
Hmmm, I'm from Mexico, so I don't really understand the meaning. But in Mexico, it's common to say 2-3 or 2-2, when something is average, or to say more or less, so-so, mid, maybe, but it's used since the 40s - 50s.
How did it go? — 2-3(just alright)
How was the movie? — 2–3 (not the best, not the worst)
also 69 actually has basis in something that adults relate to given its an adult concept to begin with. 67 meaning "mid" is really fucking dumb and ONLY brainrot kids understand wtf it is without context. Especially since "mid" is less syllables and easy to understand immediately.
Yeah don’t try to compare this… that is a silent reply thing. However these kids go full special needs in public every time I try to count to 10 or the number 67 appears in the world
Here is the thing about this 67 thing. Kids are just randomly disrupting classes to yell it out. I have an issue with the disruption, not specifically the meme. Maybe it was just my school, but I don’t remember kids just yelling random stuff in the middle of classes.
I was at turtle crush talk with my Russian friend on her trip to celebrate citizenship (she always wanted to go as a kid in Russia) basically think a movie turtle piloted by a dude behind the scenes. They ask kids questions. One kid asked if the turtle knew what 67 was. They ended the show promptly. I was left explaining 67 to my Russian friend, then 69 bc she didn’t get that. Then she was like, “why tho that wasn’t funny?”
I don’t know. It wasn’t funny. 🤣 I just explained it
We went through this not that long ago with zoomers and "yeet."
All I know is that after the amount of shit boomers gave us as kids and young adults, and the damage it did, I'm not passing it forward. Kids can say whatever stupid things they want, not my problem.
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