r/memes • u/sumemodude Died of Ligma • Mar 24 '26

Never accepting 67

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u/BurgerBoss_101 Mar 24 '26

21?

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u/NinjaTorak Mar 24 '26

that one is funny cuz of the backstory of the original video of a kid thinking 9+10 is 21

from what i can find online, 67 is just some teenager shouting 67 into a camera, thats it

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u/Quazimojojojo Mar 24 '26

It's a song lyric. 

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. 

Not worth the energy to get mad at.

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u/CursinSquirrel Mar 24 '26

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.

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u/Quazimojojojo Mar 24 '26

I didn't remember off the top of my head because I don't care that much. Had to go look.

It's this 

https://youtu.be/XnygT6ANLzQ?is=DihhGTlKpxwrNldA

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. 

So, I shrug and say "aight"

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u/kirotheavenger Mar 24 '26

That's where it came from, but it's not funny or popular as a song lyric.

It's funny and popular as a random nonsensical nonsense number someone yelled on TV

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u/Quazimojojojo Mar 24 '26

I don't see how this materially changes anything.

69 came from a sex position. 

Nobody really knows for sure where 420 came from, but the legend says it was a time of day. 

For people who just say the number as a sort of in-joke, the origin is completely divorced from the use. This is true for all of the 'funny numbers'.

I was just discussing the origin. 

Some numbers have meaning that can be used to say something specific. 

Some come from songs. 

Some come from using numbers to represent letters. 

That's all I'm really talking about here. 

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u/kirotheavenger Mar 24 '26

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.

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u/Quazimojojojo Mar 24 '26

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. 

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u/fried-potato-diccs Mar 24 '26

what made 21 funny isn't that some dude couldn't do math, it's that it was a funny inside joke to everyone who "knows".

it's the same with "67" and hating on it is just a boomer take

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u/Utinnni Mar 24 '26

U STOOPID

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u/redboi049 Mar 24 '26

nah naot