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To not understand the whole "6 7" thing and to feel uneasy about it

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winterwonder1 · 22/10/2025 14:32

Could anyone explain it please? I feel about 100 and I'm a bit worried it's something my kids shouldn't know about - or maybe I should?

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QBTheRoundestOfBees · 31/10/2025 07:19

SassyCow · 31/10/2025 07:00

Yep it's driving me up the wall along with Italian brainrot and the overplayed kpop demonhunters 😑

But in a way I like the fact that this stuff connects children globally.

SassyCow · 31/10/2025 07:00

Yep it's driving me up the wall along with Italian brainrot and the overplayed kpop demonhunters 😑

Midnights68 · 22/10/2025 18:36

Donotgogentle · 22/10/2025 14:48

I think we have kids of the same age. Bombardino crocodilo is another annoying one.

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Bombardino Crocodilo is driving me insane and don’t get me started on chimpanzini bananini.

MagicLoop · 22/10/2025 18:19

Ponoka7 · 22/10/2025 14:54

It's a brain rot trend. It needs to do one, along with ballerina cappuccino. It is banned in my GCs classrooms.

Banning these things just makes them want to do it more. Just start saying it yourself- when adults use kid slang, it's so deeply cringe that it goes out of fashion pretty quickly. According to my teen ds, the 6 7 thing is already pretty much dead. I told my year 9 class that today- they are well behind the curve Grin

Donotgogentle · 22/10/2025 18:13

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 22/10/2025 16:27

Did ‘massive’ mean something else?

It was THE favourite word of a DD’s friend’s little boy of 3 a few years ago. He’s gone down in the annals for having told nursery teachers that his daddy had a. MASSIVE willy! 😂

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Definitely doesn’t refer to anyone’s willy, at least in this context 😁.

It was a saying by the gamer Ninja who used it to refer to a haircut, a low taper fade, as being really popular. It turned into a meme.

Happily now run its course.

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winterwonder1 · 22/10/2025 17:56

BadWoIf · 22/10/2025 14:51

I expect you feel uneasy because it's similar to 69 and obviously that isn't somethng you'd want to hear kkids giggling about. But according to my tween, it's just a meme that's come about because of discussion about basketball player heights and now it livens up her maths lessons because all the boys start cheering whenever 6 and 7 appear together.

Yes, I think that was why I was worried!

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Createausername1970 · 22/10/2025 17:56

TenGreatFatSquirrels · 22/10/2025 17:27

It’s kids being idiots. Some basketball player said it and it became a meme and kids use it as a hilarious brainrot phrase.

It’ll die soon. Just like ‘25’ (from SpongeBob) stopped being a thing for Millenials.

My DS and his friends went through a "get to the choppers" phase around Y3, spoken like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Except DS had no clue who Arnie was, had never seen the film it came from and wasn't completely sure what a chopper was.

These things appear out the blue, become very annoying, then get replaced by something else.

SlashBeef · 22/10/2025 17:51

Don't worry it's just nonsense. I have the pleasure of teaching maths lessons to children of the "brain rot" age and God forbid any calculation has 6 7 in it 🙄

Itdoesntmatteranyway · 22/10/2025 17:50

It’s nothing. It’s just a way of winding teachers and parents up.

DrMadelineMaxwell · 22/10/2025 17:49

It's only reached our school in this academic year. So I'm guessing we're stuck with it a while longer. It took ages for skibidi and sigma to peter out.

DrMadelineMaxwell · 22/10/2025 17:48

StripyHorse · 22/10/2025 15:25

I'm in Wales but in English medium schools (peripatetic role). I find copying the action but saying 'chwech saith' adds to the cringe factor and stops them saying it. 😉

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Also in Wales. My year 3 (eng med school) asked, when I told them to keep it for something they said at playtimes, whether they could say it if they said it in Welsh.

They also don't really know where it comes from and in fact end up saying 'six se-ven' then 'eight ni-ne', 'ten ele-ven' in the same voice with the same hand actions.

Noodledoodledoo · 22/10/2025 17:40

As a maths teacher it is driving me crazy - everytime I say the number 6 someone will say 6 7.

My year 9s found it really 'cringe' when I did it which means I do it more! My year 12s were even doing it in my lesson this afternoon.

I get the unease as when you don't know where things come from you are never quite sure if they are being rude, it means something dodgy and you need to put a stop to it. I tend to ask the students at school to explain it!

LiarAtAWitchTrial · 22/10/2025 17:36

This has been going on for months so it's sure to die soon.

I'm old and I still find it hard not to say "The answer to life, the universe and everything" any time someone says 42 (Which happens to be the product of 6 and 7).

Treesarenotforeating · 22/10/2025 17:33

its Bloody annoying as is sigma

spoonbillstretford · 22/10/2025 17:29

Were you this worried about loom bands abd fidget spinners? Why would it be concerning?

TenGreatFatSquirrels · 22/10/2025 17:27

It’s kids being idiots. Some basketball player said it and it became a meme and kids use it as a hilarious brainrot phrase.

It’ll die soon. Just like ‘25’ (from SpongeBob) stopped being a thing for Millenials.

Timeforatincture · 22/10/2025 17:23

It was.mentioned on Thought for the Day so it will be gone soon. There'll be something else daft though.

Yellow car!

OutIsay · 22/10/2025 17:14

Tiswa · 22/10/2025 15:08

I think the whole point is it means nothing but only the kids know that and the adults are confused and that is what they find funny.

like a lot of things I think it has gone from DS age range (13) and is working its way down the ages

it is better than hawk tuah which was a sexual innuendo

Yep, it's reached Year 2 already. We had a whole table of Year 2s saying 6-7 throughout lunch two weeks ago. Better than "What the sigma?" "Skibiti toilet Ohio" etc but irritating nonetheless. It will move on to some other brain rot.

RockaLock · 22/10/2025 17:10

Donotgogentle · 22/10/2025 14:48

I think we have kids of the same age. Bombardino crocodilo is another annoying one.

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The crocodilo one is from a YouTube animation thing called Italian Brain Rot.

My DS (aged 17 and 19!!) were over the moon to find Italian brain rot cards (like Pokémon cards) on our Italian holiday this summer 😂

AnimalStyleFries · 22/10/2025 17:08

6 7 💀

To not understand the whole "6 7" thing and to feel uneasy about it
PrivateMusic · 22/10/2025 17:08

BadgernTheGarden · 22/10/2025 14:54

Think alpha with bells on. Good, excellent, the best, alpha male, etc.

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They weren’t asking for the meaning. “What the sigma?” is another saying kids use at the moment.

Treaclewell · 22/10/2025 17:06

Reminds me of the disruption caused in primary classes by the outbreaks of the dreaded lurgi, which had to be passed on, in lesson time, if it was carried in from playtime.
Drat the Goons.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 22/10/2025 16:27

Donotgogentle · 22/10/2025 14:38

It’s an improvement on “Massive - I’ll tell you what else is massive, a low taper fade”. At least that fad has blown over.

Did ‘massive’ mean something else?

It was THE favourite word of a DD’s friend’s little boy of 3 a few years ago. He’s gone down in the annals for having told nursery teachers that his daddy had a. MASSIVE willy! 😂

Chippedpolish · 22/10/2025 16:23

Goodness I thought this past weeks and weeks ago

Certainly my two are 🙄, yeah it’s old

TheFiveLakes · 22/10/2025 16:22

Ablondiebutagoody · 22/10/2025 15:20

It's a means of identifying morons

The use of the word "moron" (unless you're writing some kind of paper on the history of psychiatry in the early twentieth century) is probably a more reliable means of identifying people who don't engage their brains before committing on the intelligence of children...