If you have kids, you’ve heard it. If anyone says the words “six” or “seven” out loud around them, they’re like “six sevvvennn?” They might say that if someone mentions any numbers. They say it with such dead, monotonous affect. It’s not a joke, exactly. Nobody ever laughs. It’s just a thing that they do. Imagine being an elementary school math teacher right now. It must just be a constant call-and-response with these little weirdos. I cannot possibly explain how “6 7” became the Pavlovian verbal meme that it is today, but I can tell you how it spread: TikTok videos of basketball players, especially LaMelo Ball, set to audio from Philadelphia rapper Skrilla’s song “Doot Doot (6 7).”
