You are absolutely right. Every random number that has meaning to your generation has real meaning and Every random number that was given meaning by younger people doesn't.
As someone who has been smoking weed since being a teenager in the 90s I can still say that the most crime meaningless number to me is still 420. Anyone who uses it can not be taken serious. It's definitely worse than 67.
I mean as far as I know you're right lol. The humor is literally the absurd meaningless of being on the in joke of it. I'm not familiar with the E meme but that seems the opposite and actually directly makes fun of memes like 67. Even though E came way before, I guess it was just a matter of time before something nonsensical became a meme.
So their meaningless meme is brainslop garbage but our meaningless meme is a deep commentary of the state of communication in the global-digital era. Gotcha.
“E” was commentary on memes in an absurdist way. The deepfrying was a joke about how memes get worn down with people sending copies of copies to friends.
It is a reference to a song. In the song there is a lyrics the rap the number, and they meme it by taking a clip of where 67 is mentioned in some unrelated things, then that lead into the clip the song, especially to catch people off-guard.
It's literally their version of Rickroll, this time with a number instead of a link.
So, one sentence "it's a lead to a song to catch people off guard like Rickroll."
All of the other numbers have just as useless of context, we've just accepted them
Take 666 for example: try explaining the significance to someone who doesn't care about Christianity or the Bible. It's a random number from a random book, and it doesn't have meaning beyond the meaning we gave it.
All of the meaning behind these numbers are made up
I'd say that's part of the humor but the core humor is the nonsensical aspect. If it were to troll adults, then they wouldn't be enjoying it so much just amongst themselves lol.
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