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Are you an elderly Gen Zer? Confused about why the kids are nonsensically saying ‘6-7?’ Us too.
Every so often, a moment in pop culture will arrive as a reminder that youth isn’t eternal. Hearing an in-joke you don’t understand or missing an obvious conversational reference can make even the most mentally robust person uneasy.
Am I out of touch? Has the world moved on? Are we over the hill already?
As a chronically-online twenty-nine-year-old, these cultural blind spots are starting to creep up on me more frequently. Indeed, despite my years of social media scrolling and zeitgeist reporting, nothing prepared me for the ‘6-7’ dance trend, a craze that’s been all over TikTok and Instagram this month.
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If you’re also an elderly Gen Zer (or a Millennial parent), you may not understand what ‘6-7’ means. I’m here to tell you that it’s okay. We’re with you. We hear you.
In fact, this whole confusing trend got us talking in the office. What is ‘6-7’ and why are the kids enthralled with it? How did it get so popular that even Kier Starmer, of all people, had to apologise to a teacher for encouraging kids to do the dance? Where did it even come from?
Following a thorough investigation, we’ve got all the answers right here. Fair word of warning, mind; the whole thing is pure brainrot. Let’s unpack it.
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What is ‘6-7’ and where does it come from?
First off – what is it? The trend simply involves kids saying ‘6, 7’ while juggling their hands. That’s it. They’re doing it in schools, online videos, and some are even turning the meme into a viable business venture.
The first use of the phrase ‘6-7’ appears to be in the song ‘Doot Doot (6 7)’ by Skrilla, a rapper from Philadelphia. Both numbers are spoken in succession many times throughout the song, almost nonsensically.
This track was then used on TikTok for basketball edits, with player LaMelo Ball frequently starring in clips as he happens to be exactly 6’ 7” in height. It became so widespread that LeMelo even mentioned the meme in a post match interview several months ago, saying it was his ‘favourite.’
After the song began making waves on TikTok, a creator called Cam Wilder uploaded a separate basketball vlog to his YouTube channel titled ‘My Overpowered AAU Team has Finally Returned!’ in which a young spectator, Mason, says the ‘6 7’ chant and moves his hands up and down.
From there, things really took off. The numbers, chant, and hand juggling all came together, spawning tons of TikTok videos and birthing a new trend.
Unlike most prior, this one seems to be a solely Gen Alpha phenomena that, until recently, was largely lost on anyone above the age of 16. We only heard about it several weeks ago ourselves.
Does it mean anything?
Nope. Literally, there is no meaning.
You can chuck the ‘6-7’ meme into the same bracket as other abstract social trends of yesteryear such as ‘Skibidi Toilet’ and ‘Dat Boi.’ For anyone who isn’t an elder Gen Zer, that last one involved a frog riding on a unicycle in 2016 and was similarly ridiculous to the content we have now. Brainrot is universal across decades, folks.
The reaction online from commentators has been largely dismay and ridicule, unsurprisingly. Various users on the original video have expressed their worry at the popularity and pointlessness of ‘6-7,’ targeting Mason in particular.
‘Little did he know that by publishing this video, he would cause a gigantic mess in society, literally a modern-day Oppenheimer,’ wrote one person. Another said, ‘this dude really made school harder than it needed to be.’
In classrooms across the US and UK, teachers have complained about children constantly saying ‘6-7,’ and Mason has become a target of absurdist, distorted edits of his face that make him look terrifying. Fast food chain Wendy’s is even running a special ‘6-7’ deal this week. Yes, really.
Wendy’s has launched a 6 7 deal for Black Friday, offering Frostys for 67c each pic.twitter.com/SaRnPuOcTu
— Dexerto (@Dexerto) November 24, 2025
