A teen meme officially crosses the line into adult bewilderment when The New York Times OR Caretaker They bring it to their pages and try to explain it. Even when Wikipedia dedicates an entry to him whose first paragraph ends with “it has no concrete meaning”. This is the case of 6-7OR six sevena popular expression among the alpha generation, i.e. those born after 2010, which baffles parents and irritates teachers in schools.
The first clue the Internet provides is that its origin is in the song Dot Dot 6 7by rapper Skrilla. The song, which so far has nearly nine million views on YouTube, offers little explanation, but the comments are a slew of bewildered parents. “You Googled what 6-7 means and now you hear this,” reads the most popular comment I like.
The next: “You’re over 30 and you already regret being curious.” The phenomenon could have remained in another song that goes viral on TikTok, the Holy Grail of record companies in 2025, and leaves a small dance, gesture or signature movement. But, in this case, phrase and gesture seem to have started a solo career, now independent of the song.
If we limit ourselves to words, the origin of 6-7 can have several explanations. It may be, some say, because rapper Skrilla lived on 67th Street in his native Philadelphia. Or with the police code 10-67, which in the United States is used to report a death. It was college basketball player Taylen Kinney who popularized it after the song, using the words six seven when asked in an interview what he thought of his Starbucks coffee, while in interviews he made a curious gesture with both hands. Various compilations on YouTube collect it, also accompanied by disconcerted comments (and with hundreds of thousands of views).
The trace of 6-7 Then we get to a video as absurd and confusing as the previous four paragraphs: “Son of 6-7 original,” reads a YouTube video with more than two and a half million views. Here 6-7 is no longer an answer to a question, but rather an isolated comment. In it, a boy celebrates what appears to be the opposing team’s failure to score during a basketball game and shouts into the camera, “Six seven!”, perhaps as a gesture of victory, but to the general irritation of an Internet that the last time it was asked to understand something meaningless concerned the Hi, how’s it going? and, at least, in the photo there was a phrase in Spanish with a consubstantial meaning and a funny llama.
According to data from Dictionary.com, searches for 6-7 on Google have increased by 600% in the last two months, probably at the hands of parents and teachers who have not understood anything. The Dictionary itself chose only 6-7 words of the year (last year it chose modest). 6-7 isn’t a word, it’s two numbers, but it doesn’t matter. 6-7 was chosen as the word of the year and no one knows exactly what it means, but that doesn’t matter either. The platform tries to give it meaning, but they themselves admit that “it is complicated”: “Some say it has meaning more or lessOR between and in betweenespecially when accompanied by his signature hand gesture, in which both palms are facing up and moving alternately up and down. Some young people, sensing an opportunity to annoy their elders, use it as an answer to almost every question: “Hi honey, how was school today?” “6-7!”
Perhaps meaning no longer means anything, and tomorrow’s world will be more made up of gestures and emotions and the intention is, rather than expressing oneself to others, to irritate them. Some schools have already banned its use because words 6-7 interrupt lessons. 6-7 means nothing to you and means absolutely everything and anything to your child. It is the rosette of the generation gap by the end of 2025. In any case, there is already a canned drink with the name 6-7 which promises to sell a lot. Brevetti e Marchi understood this perfectly.
