Another case for the jury

Another case for the jury

As a dad who tries to connect with his kids, I made a 67 reference last week. Their response: "Oh Dad, 67 is old now." Kids these days can't even commit to the bit. π€£
This is why I cannot dislike the 67 meme. I don't actively like it or anything but we have our own funny number and there were 42 as well and 21 for a while.
There are definitely things to criticize about the new generation, I am not denying that, but finding a number amusing is too inoffensive for me to care.
6 x 7 = 42
How is 21 funny?
What's 9 plus 10?
19?
Or 910 or 109?
Lol ok that's pretty goodΒ
At least 69 is representative of something. 67 is literally meaningless.
XKCD made me aware of the fact that this sorta joke has been going on since way before any of us were born. 23 skidoo is an old trendy phrase that's made up of two jokes that mean nothing definable on their own
Today's 67 is 1899's 23
From the XKCD alt text:
In 1899, people were walking around shouting `23' at each other and laughing, and confused reporters were writing articles trving to figure out what it meant.
Bro we grew up with "-holds up spork-", we cannot comment on what the newgen find meaning in.
Technically speaking, 69 sucks.
69 stands for S in Sex. (Point each end of the 6 and 9 kinda looks like cursive s)
A better comparison would be our 21
That still makes more sense to me at least. Unless I am missing some great context about 67
So you're saying 67 is the better meme?
67 is very meaningful to Cantonese people
right @NorthWestWind@lemmy.world?
It's literally not, you just don't know what it means.
Carefully observe how the above argument lacks any supporting argument or information.
Curious.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/67-meme
Right there after a 30 second search
When asked by Complex[7] about the meaning of the numbers, Skrilla said, "Everybody else got their own different meaning. But for me, it's just 'negative to positive.' It helped me turn from a negative person to a positive person."
In a comment to the Wall Street Journal[11] from the same timeframe, he also said, "I never put an actual meaning on it, and I still would not want to β¦ Thatβs why everybody keeps saying it."
So it's a number repeated in a song that the artist says has no meaning, instead of it just being a meaningless number.
Glad you helped clear that up. Way to prove everyone wrong.
10-67 means something.
The 67 meme literally means nothing. It's not even referencing the code, or the song it originally went viral to which was referencing the police code.
I would argue that it has an origin but lost its meaning since the people who use it don't know the meaning. At this point, it's more than anything a cultural signifier which isn't a new thing either. People try to belong to an ingroup and adopt their insider even if only as marker of that group.
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I feel so seen! :-P
BTW, 42.
Gentlemen, there's a solution here you are not seeing . . . 68!
Β±1 WHAT ALEX. Β±1 WHAT??
1 thou? 1 millimeter? A fucking mile?! WHAT DOES Β±1 MEAN YOU FUCKING HACK.
This rant brought to you by a salty machinist and a new engineer.
They're a breakcore artist, I like em
I don't see why 2480035542436830599600990418569171581047399201355367672371710738018221445712183296000000000000000 would be funny...
Dont get me started on skibidi toilet!
Our glorious Gmod videos
Their horrible SFM animations
I grew up on source film maker slop but I will take the opportunity to hate on the corporatisation of SFM shitposts. Why the fuck is there skibidi toilet merch? A movie? What the fuck, are they going to make a movie based on Shrekophone? Fucking fuck I want off this ride
I love the fact that I never turned into this guy that hates the new stuff. I wasn't hating fidget spinners when everybody hated them, I liked Fortnite, I think skibidi toilet is fun and such. But just as I didn't like some trends when I was young myself (e.g. I never wanted to join the Gangnam style dance), I do find it disappointing that 67 is so popular, because I loved the fact that 69 is funny because of sex.
Atleast 69 had a context. 67 literally was a kid spurting out a random number.
I just kinda assumed it was a mix of memes "why was 66 afraid of 67? Cuz 67 68 69" Ba-dum-cha
But I mean, the same is true with E. It was a random letter. And there have been other random funny numbers. I just don't like it because it "hurts" 69's status of the funny number xD
Im with you on this. I'm in my mid-40s but I work with a lot of 19-25 year olds so I am still exposed to a lot of current memes/slang/whatever. There's only been a couple that I thought were absolutely stupid.
I don't know what "based" means, and at this point I'm too afraid to ask.
It's the opposite of "cringe"
Hardly, the use of based this way is cringe.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/based
(Internet slang, originally 4chan slang) Admirable for rejecting political correctness or socially progressive values. Synonym: unwoke based and redpilled My last account got banned for being too based.
TBF though, the Slop Posting isn't comparable at all. Slop is actual negative value given form.
There is a point where random noises become a song. Disposability of culture is, to my eye, a novelty that hasnβt yet reached the point of becoming a song. Itβs just random noises, and I want to silence them with a heavy pipe to the throat
Could say the same for:
Politics.
Religion.
Ethnic groups.
Sport teams.
Cola preference.
Cutting some bits off your genitals or not.
Operaring systems.
Humans are a hoot, huh?
The first three things you brought up are the concepts literally criticised by the unedited original cartoon.
Politics at its root is ideals about how to structure society though. It does, however, devolve into a team sports mentality in a lot of cases, which is I think what you're getting at.
Wait, who the hell is pro genital mutilation!?
... Oh wait, Jews do circumcision... siiiiigghhhh
(I'm also aware some areas of India/middle east do FGM too, but I don't remember if it's for anything close to religous reasons)
Most Christians in the US.
Circumcision happens all over. It's popular in the US, Africa, and Middle east especially.
Getting roasted because people don't want their dingdong cut off... +1 for accuracy though.
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