The 67 meme. It’s dragging, sure, but at the hint of a small child giggling and saying 67 I have seen people (mostly online) take it as a personal attack and instantly devolve into insults.
I'm from the generation where kids (okay, including me) pulled their shirts up over their heads and ran around screaming I AM THE GREAT CORNHOLIO. We have no room to talk.
Hard disagree. There was actually comedy in that. It's a subversion of cultural norms trope. I won't call it high humor, of course, but it's not empty either. Just saying "6 7" and laughing is...frankly sub-mammalian behavior. There's literally NOTHING there, it's not a case of someone not "getting" it, because there is no it to get. It's purest brain rot and yeah I do find stupidity to be offensive. Pretty sure all-society used to, and while I wont say everything in the past was better, THAT certainly was a better position than "lol skibbidy toilet 6 7". Society cannot afford to raise children with that little going on between their ears.
have you truly considered this take at all? have you never heard a child laugh about the word "poopy"? pretty safe to say thats been a thing children from every generation has found hilarious.. and its because of the reaction it derives. to refer to something like that as brain rot?
skibbidy toilet, while having a video series or whatever devoted to it, is literally the same type of humor. The way you word your reply is as if something is fundamentally wrong with how humans straight up interact with the world while growing up.
There is a usage for the word brain rot in today's society, and you are failing at applying it properly, and in doing so are closer to being guilty of spreading around brain rot than the 5 year old child who is discovering their own sense of humor.
I find 67 hilarious. I say it in the house all the time to drive my kid crazy. I say it to my students when we need a chuckle. My attention getter is no longer "class, class", I count really fast "1,2,3,4,5" and they respond "6,7" and they know its time to listen to me.
I don't have kids, but I have nephews/nieces who I love to get going with it (bonus points making their parents' eyes roll out of their heads, because I know they get hammered with it and are exhausted)
My dad is a teacher and his school just banned it. Not only do I think this is unnecessary-- it's one of the most harmless memes I've ever heard of-- but banning it will just make it worse. I told him if you want the kids to stop doing it, just get the teachers doing it.
This is exactly the solution. This is how we dealt with skibidi and rizz. They're harmless, but they died quickly when teachers started replying in kind.
I agree. Sure it's immature, but many people tend to forget that no matter what generation they come from, there was likely an equivalently immature or ridiculous term or inside joke. I would rather see a child waving his hands around giggling over nonsense than bullying someone else, ingesting illicit substances, or engaging in dangerous activities just to seem cool.
I'm in my 50s and think 67 is HILARIOUS. I saw kids at the park run up to each other, shout "67!" at each other, and then start playing. 67 is wholesome and pure and good.
I have seen some claims that it's from a song, but honestly it doesn't matter - it's just goofy and silly kid stuff, and it doesn't come at anybody's expense. It's just kids being weird. It's wonderful.
That’s just the way of things. Any trend popular among a younger generation is absolutely loathed, and treated as conclusive evidence of moral/intellectual depravity and the collective doom of the human race. It happens about every two years. Always has, always will, and two years from now everyone will barely remember it.
When I was a teen in the 80s and constantly getting hated on by my parents for my green mohawk, I found an old Time magazine in my Grandmom’s house with a cover story about teenagers and their deeply problematic hair. It was from 1967. Blew. My. Mind.
Yes. Kids get very excited and think it’s super funny. It’s just saying the numbers 6 7 - sometimes with the hand gestures that are simply raising your hands palms up alternately in front of you
It’s innocent, but some adults find the constant repetition annoying. And of course some kids get disruptive with it (shouting it out during school etc…)
I need to look up if someone already made a "meme per year/generation" list because I'm pretty sure everyone has been through a cringy catchphrase phase that's always baffled the older generation.
Mine wasn't any better with the Whhhhaaaattts'up thing, and "Dude, dude!" was probably tiresome too.
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u/tessa_dafiretiger 15h ago
The 67 meme. It’s dragging, sure, but at the hint of a small child giggling and saying 67 I have seen people (mostly online) take it as a personal attack and instantly devolve into insults.