My nephews of twelve and ten in Southern California fllippantly joke about a statement of an evenly-keeled circumstance as a stated “6-7.” The usage seems to be derived from the Net somehow. Is that common with middle-schoolers where you live?
OMG it’s been popular for a couple months where I live.
Has also been picked up by snarky adults and coworkers at times.
It’s made it across the Atlantic to my kids’ schools here in Luxembourg. They think it’s hilarious.
To be clear, “6-7” is not funny by itself. It’s the confusion of adults that’s entertaining. Basic real-world dada shitposting.
One of the local “Hot Topic”-style stores has a display of Christmas sweaters and one of them has the Grinch with “6-7” on it. I guess that’s how you can tell that a popular meme is in its death throes.
It’s been popular here for a couple of months. “41” is the more current number slang around here, though “6-7” is still alive and kicking. And, yes, both my 11- and 9-year-old use it, though very much in a tongue-in-cheek, ironic manner. (On the other hand, is there any other way to use it?) And, yes, it’s been the bane of every elementary/middle school teacher I know.
The phrase 6-7 comes from a rap song called “Doot Doot (67)” by Skrilla, though nobody who actually uses it seems to know whence the reference. And when asked about its meaning, my kids say it either doesn’t mean anything or it can mean anything. Seems vaguely dada to me. (ETA: Heh. Only just noticed dada was mentioned in this thread. I agree with that interpretation.)
My wife teaches middle school here in greater Boston, and it’s been a thing here for a while. Heck, it even made Colbert’s monologue, so you know it waning now.
I miss “23-skidoo.”
The funny part to me is that they’re also confused by it. My 11 and 14 year old boys were pretty much nonplussed when I asked them what it meant, or where it came from.
“Uh.. I don’t know Dad. People just say it. I’m not sure what it means.”
So I do it back to them when I get the chance, which I’m sure is hastening the end of this fad, if only a tiny bit.
Yeah, I haven’t heard it in the wild, but it has been reported about that meme also here in Germany.
My 7-y/o granddaughter hit me this weekend with dabbing and 6-7. Kids… 
Dabbing? Is that back? That’s gotta be about a decade old by now.
I have no idea where she got dabbing - maybe an old video? I just smile and she moves on.
I had to look up “dabbing” and first got the definition for a marijuana smoking technique and thought “Sheesh, 7 years is really to young for this”. Then I fortunately found the alternative meaning…
Yeah, TikTok/YouTube Shorts/Reels does have a way of intermixing culture chronologically. My kid a year ago surprised the hell out of me when I was changing the station because I didn’t feel like listening to Freebird for the hundred billionth time. She stopped me with “wait, my favorite part is coming up!” And I’m like “how in the hell do you know this song?” Apparently, the solo was the background music for a TikTok meme (or a series of memes.) Cool thing is, she actually unironically enjoyed the song, so kids are getting exposed to a smattering of culture from all sorts of time frames.
Here’s the 12 seconds of viral video that started it.
Proof: the internet is the fastest and most effective vector for utter garbage to proliferate from meme to legend.
I wouldn’t call it garbage, actually I appreciate it when kids use some dadasque humor. When I was a kid I also had fun with silly and absurd word plays, and annoying the grown-ups was just a bonus.
I’m old enough to remember the “No soap radio” thing, and to have participated in it myself.
(…nothing new under the sun…)
Too bad 8647 isn’t one of their memes. At least it means something.
There’s been a bit of controversy in the media as Dictionary.com selects ‘67’ as their ‘Word of the Year’. “It’s not even a word, it’s a number!” some say. “It has no actual definition!” others say. both good points. Personally I think it needs a hyphen (6-7) or a slash (6/7) so it’s not automatically read as 'sixty seven".
This article announcing the WotY has some interesting background on the ‘6/7’ phenomenon, along with a few words / phrases that were runners-up, which I think were all better choices than ‘67’ (except for ‘dynamite emoji’-- emojis are NOT words! I’ll accept a number as a word before I accept an emoji).
It’s the answer to one of the great questions of the times:
“What is woke?”
“6-7.”