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[–] 119 points 1 year ago
[–] 119 points 1 year ago (33 children)

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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  • [–] 96 points 1 year ago (19 children)

    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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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    And the only way to kill it is for adults to start saying it, usually incorrectly, as much as possible.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    That would be pretty 6-7 of us adults to do.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    We could shorten it to negative one because that’s six minus seven and shortening things and having to explain them makes them cooler

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    I saw the original clip; the kid saying β€œsix 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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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Just saw a language Jones video about exactly this. Pretty much echoed the same thing.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    6-7 or 10-67 is a police code often in reference to report a dead body.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Codes vary dramatically from one jurisdiction to the next.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Yeah, except he isn't from Philly! People are just trying to link things, and they don't care to actually check.

    Edit: Nevermind. Misremembered. The bad explanation is that it's from Chicago and he isn't from Chicago.

    Check this video out. It's good and I think has the actually explanation: https://youtu.be/laZpTO7IFtA

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Joe out there with the detonator about to blow them up

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  • [–] 61 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    It means that the ultimate question to life, the universe, and everything is what is 6 times 7

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    what is six times nine, canonically

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yeah, Arthur definitely did not have the great question in him.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    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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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Near as I can tell, there's nothing nefarious at all about it. Rightwingers like it for the same reason children do

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I lost my faith in the "new word" committee for 'Big Dictionary'.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Wow, theres a subgenius word I haven't heard in a long time.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Did SubGenius use it? It definitely started as Discordian.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    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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