If a joke relies on having no meaning to be funny, it’s neither a joke, or funny.
It isn’t no meaning tho…
And if kids laugh at it and it’s just being silly who cares? What are you the funny police?
Yeah? Okay. What does it mean then?
It’s a meme of a rap song of a someone saying that a guy plays like he’s 6’7" even though he is 6’2".
It caught on because the rap song does the motion with the hands and the kids just find it funny.
Right. And the other comments where people say that even their kids have no idea what it means, they just say it to be funny….
They’re lying?
Jokes be subjective my man. What’s funny to you is not to me and vice versa. So nonsense jokes exist, but you don’t find them funny, doesn’t mean it’s not a joke, or funny to some. Whole web comics have been built on the premise. look up the white ninja. I find him hilarious.
Im so high i was like, who were the 67th and 69th presidents?
42 sitting in the corner
Nice.
69 is eternal, or at least as long as Arabic numerals remain in use. 67 does not replace 69, it lives alongside it. But 69 will outlast it. It was first referenced in 1790 https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/69/ and will be repeatedly rediscovered by future generations
67 is a near homophone to a curse word in cantonese:
碌柒 meaning dickhead
As a native Cantonese speaker, this will always be my official meaning for this
You’re one of my favorite Lemmy users.
I’m gonna start spreading this around. It’s much better than the existing definition.
From Charlie Barnett
“My favorite position is 68. She does me and I owe her one.”
Why was 66 scared of 67? Because 67 68 69
All the fun numbers were already taken by previous generations, so I guess they had to come up with something, even if it’s completely meaningless
What does it even mean?
I asked my nine year old daughter, and she said it doesn’t mean anything, it’s just brain rot to confuse the adults.
Joke’s on your daughter, I am already confused.
Knowing is half the battle.
I think its whole thing is that it doesn’t really mean anything; it’s literally just an empty trigger word
No soap radio.
It originates from a discussion about a guy’s height, he was 6 foot 7 inches. However, that’s not really important to how it’s used, it’s just a mindless phrase to say.
he was 6 foot 7 inches
So that is why it’s not a thing in Europe.
It originates from “Doot Doot” by Skrilla [Dec '24], got associated with LaMelo Ball (basketball player), hijacked and force-memed by Taylen Kinney (basketball player, hand gesture starts here) [Jan '25], kids chasing highlight reel clout start doing this at games and Maverick Trevillian (the blonde kid in the memes) gets lucky [March '25]. Full-steam-ahead brainrot evolution from there, memes referencing memes with none of the original layers of context.
Gotta love 67. It’s so ubiquitous it’s become meaningless. From basketball to 67 kid, it’s pretty much whatever anyone wants it to be.
Isn’t the joke “because 7 8 9” older than both?
Where is 68?
How’s the old joke go? 67 69ed 68
Makes me miss my grandparents.
I’ll always remember their big dusty fishbowl with the outlines of all the keys.
casual racism intensifies
I don’t get what the annoyance is with “6-7”. I’ve been using it for years and it just means “approximately” or “thereabouts”.
The way my kids use it, it doesn’t mean anything. They just say it randomly in a drawn out voice.
Can you use it in a sentence?
I’ll be there approximately 6-7 thereabouts.
This is funny, but don’t you mean to say: “I’ll be there 6-7 6-7 6-7”. Makes more sense that way
That doesn’t sound like you’re using it to mean “thereabouts” given that you have the word “thereabouts” in the sentence…
Well that isn’t the same guy so there is that haha
I noticed, but I thought they were at least still trying to answer the question…
I cannot. You can only realise it’s been used after it has already happened. I can try to think of a sentence all day but I will not come up with one because it can only come naturally.
Riiight.
Wait until we have six or seven votes on these comments and maybe then we can see
