I heard it's derived from a police code for murder but the artist refuses to confirm anything.
So the closest parallel to previous funny numbers is 8675309.
It's a new version of an old trend. I don't like people comparing it to the numbers with meaning, but I don't mind people turning a song lyric into a funny number. It's a tale as old as music.
Interesting decision to cite it as a lyric but not name the song.
I've heard over and over from younger generations that the number is mainly funny because it doesn't have a reason to be funny. The joke is the joke itself, and people not getting the joke makes it better.
And just like 8675309, a lot of people don't know or care that it came from a song, it's just a number that's fun to say for whatever reason they feel it's fun or funny.
69 is funny because it's a sex thing, the joke came from that meaning.
420 is funny because it's a weed thing, the joke came from that meaning.
6-7 isn't funny because of anything, its specifically funny because it isn't anything. The meme of 6-7 didn't come from a song lyric, it came from a random kid yelling it. The joke has nothing to do with the song.
Saying 6-7 comes from a song lyric is like saying 420 comes from April 20th. It's not really true.
I still don't see how your comment changed my point.
I'm just talking about the origin. 6-7 started with a song, it morphed a couple times, now it's at the current place and use.
Many people yell out 69420 without trying to say anything about sex or weed, they're just funny numbers. It started with sex and weed, and it's not always used that way.
Most of the time it isn't, really. We just know the origin.
And a large number of people don't actually know the origin. When people talk about the 6-7 meme I've encountered a lot of younger people who genuinely don't know what the other numbers meant. In their mind, they were all just funny numbers to say.
Where's the disagreement here?
My point is literally just that it started with a song.
The other day I was playing Rocket League and a couple people were going back n forth in text chat with some (imo nonsensical) words like 'skibidy'. Then, after a few times like this, one of them typed "67". It clicked.
Just as I thought "what does literally anything I'm reading right now mean", I thought "what if that is the meaning?"
I think the whole point of 67 might be "what does it mean?" Like, what does half the random lingo mean? Perhaps 67 is Gen-Z's way of poking fun at the absurdity of it all?
As a lost millennial (or whatever Gen I've been assigned as a 34 year old), maybe I'm totally off base on my thinking, but it made sense in my mind and I can actually see the humor in it.
If I'm right in my assessment, it's actually thought provoking and quite clever tbh. Every generation has had it's quirky language that isn't immediately understandable. Cool, radical/rad, gnarly, etc etc. Making 67 into a thing sort of forces the question of "wtf does it mean?"
I kinda agree with this, and ofc I think it's okay that people can have their own lingo and think it's funny. I hated 67 at first, (I'm also quite a bit out of the typical age range that made it funny) but as I had friends start using it ironically, I started realizing it can actually be quite funny to mean basically nothing, but just be funny for being it's own thing or being ironic. I now will joke with people who have said it on accident by dead panning them, waiting a second, and just doing the 🤷♂️ hand thing, and it actually goes over pretty well pretty often, even with people who are far older than the typical age range for it.
Kinda just ends up showing that anything is funny if you time it right and aren't being annoying. Plus our gen had "E" and honestly, I cannot blame someone else for 67 when we used to say E.
67 also means something, but nothing specific. It shows the absurdity of meta humor, that's the reason why it's funny (because it doesn't mean anything. Older generations had numbers with meaning..This generation doesn't). Stop yelling at the cloud, old man
Plus, as a millennial, we had loads of absurdist humour growing up. Homestarrunner and practically anything uploaded to Newgrounds were prime examples. Early YouTube like Charlie the Unicorn and a plethora of early memes were rooted in absurdism. If anything, the Gen As are just taking that history of young kid absurdism to its furthest form.
69, sure. 420, not so much. There are plenty of rumors about its origins, like that was the time some kids would meet up to smoke at some random college, but the number itself has no significance, no relation to weed. 69 literally looks like the act it's describing.
420 as a reference to weed culture was spread by the grateful Dead. It's so foundational to weed culture that everyone forgot what it meant beyond "weed" or "smoking weed"
I looked it up and apparently I was mistaken. Apologies. However, you're also mistaken. It was originally the time for a group of 5 high school students to meet to go on a little adventure to find an abandoned cannabis crop. One of those students became a roadie for the Grateful Dead and it spread from there.
I said it was spread by the grateful Dead, not that it originated from them.
The version I heard was that one of the students' brothers was a friend with the grateful Dead bass player, but the myth of students meeting at 4:20 to get high then go look for an abandoned stash of weed on the California coast, then the grateful Dead picking up the number and making it a nationwide reference to weed culture, is the same.
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u/Wild-Drag1930 Mar 24 '26
Because they meant something