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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.
Joe out there with the detonator about to blow them up
This meme is like a Rosetta stone for genz communication
It means that the ultimate question to life, the universe, and everything is what is 6 times 7
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?
Five four.
Except Arthur Dent wasnβt descended from the original hominids of Earth, but rather the useless humans who came from another planet, so the question was corrupted in his mind.
calling it slang is....a stretch.
The real meaning:
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.
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.
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
I lost my faith in the "new word" committee for 'Big Dictionary'.
23 skidoo
Wow, theres a subgenius word I haven't heard in a long time.
Did SubGenius use it? It definitely started as Discordian.

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