superrific
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Is it a regional thing? My eldest is 19; my wife's kids are 18 and twins are 15. I have not heard 6/7 a single time.
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akillesheel
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it's been a thing for kids for about a month (i'd say it's more a gen alpha trend than gen z), it's really only just started spilling outside of places like classrooms. teachers have been hearing it incessantly for the last month, though
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Um, what does it mean?
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Sort of nihilistic nonsense? I think it is derived from this song — a hip hop Jabberwocky?
Milk and Cookies
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It means nothing. Its traces back to a tik tok but if you're looking for a rational explanation -- there is none. Its just a thing to say which I think it kinda the point. Nonsense for nonsense's sake.
What the hell does it mean?
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What's the punishment if a kid says it?
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Nah, it's national, but your kids are a little old to use it. It's mostly middle school and upper elementary.
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This may be the most definitive explanation (and there really is no definitive explanation) I have seen:
six seven trend: Kids keep saying ‘6 7’ — here’s what the new brain rot slang really means - The Economic Times
The viral “six seven” trend, arrived from Skrillas song Doot Doot (6 7), has spread across social media and popular classrooms in Australia. Though the name indicates numbers, it has no actual meaning. The phrase, connected to TikTok, Instagram, and basketball star LaMelo Balls 6-foot-7 height...
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I don’t know. My kids haven’t gotten in trouble for it yet.
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Probably nothing. It’s pretty innocent. More annoying than anything else.
superrific
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Well, my twins are in 6th grade but they are autistic and I don't know how much they interact with other kids. One of my boys has very little interaction. The other, I"m not sure about.
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What the fuck would you do with it, once having grabbed it?
They were handing this out free in Lawrence on Mass St (our Franklin) and I probably should have grabbed one just for the hell of it but didn’t because of the stupidity of the whole thing.
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I think I see a pattern here.
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Huh, well, I guess they would be in a place to be exposed to it.
I know from talking to teacher friends here and seeing younger kids at my youngest kid's sports events that it's huge among the middle schoolers here.
41 is also popular, but not nearly at the level of 6 7.
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Ok, I need one of your kids to help us out, for research purposes.
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If he ends up going to State, then I think it can be chalked up as a recruiting miss. But if he goes to one of the other schools listed, not so much. It’s very likely that he just doesn’t want to go to school so close to home.
A lot of times when we don’t land a recruit who lives in UNC’s backyard, a lot of folks freak out and think something must be really wrong with recruiting. But a lot of kids (most?) don’t want to go to school so close to home. They want to spread their wings a little bit, get away from home, create some space between themselves and their parents, and create some distance from what they’ve always known. I think it’s more common for kids who are going off to college to want that than it is for them to want to stay as close as home as possible.