Posted on 12/07/2025 6:04:50 PM PST by DoodleBob
“Cooked.” “Low-key.” “Sus.” And now, the cryptic “6-7.” In her recent article, “What Does ‘6-7’ Mean? Maybe Tweens Don’t Want You to Know,” Callie Holtermann explores the latest slang trends baffling adults and taking over classrooms.
She highlights the phenomenon of “6-7,” a phrase as ubiquitous as it is meaningless. “‘Six-seven’ feels a bit like a nonsense grenade,” Ms. Holtermann writes. She asks if today’s slang is simply “brain rot” or rather a “gleeful obfuscation” designed to keep older generations in the dark.
We asked students to weigh in. Is “6-7” actually funny? Is it annoying? And what does it say about their generation? They told us about the joy of inside jokes, the desire to have a language their parents can’t decode, and the fear that “brain rot” might actually be rotting their brains. In the end, many agreed, as one student put it: “Slang is inevitable, just don’t try and understand it.”
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“Current slang shows that our generation is creative, funny, and always switching things up. A lot of our slang is random on purpose, which shows that we don’t take everything too seriously and we like humor that’s playful and unpredictable. It also reveals how connected we are to social media, since trends spread fast and new phrases pop up almost every day. “ …
However, plenty of students are just as annoyed by the ‘6-7’ trend as adults are.
I find it hard to concentrate in middle school, and it’s not the teachers’ fault. They’re great. The real problem is just those two numbers, 6 and 7. It was funny for the first day — no, the first three hours. It has become so overused that just typing them out genuinely fries my brain.
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Say, toots. What’s the skinny on this 6/7? Is this just applesauce? Or are they hittin’ the hooch? The giggle juice?
Why was 6 afraid of 7? Because 7,8,9 !
Rope a dope for sure 10-4....good buddy!
I agree, but in a different way.
Obama vanquished Hillary. That counted for a LOT in many people’s eyes.
I suspect many people were turned off by Palin, though that was due to SNL and other provocateurs and spin doctors.
Finally, Obama didn’t seem like a full-on radical leftist. He campaigned as the change agent. For people who cherished America, and to a certain extent who had guilt on their conscience, voting for Obama could cleanse their soul.
Pour all that into the blender, and you get a massive victory.
Fast-forward 4 years. There is a LOT of buyers regret.
Thankfully, Obama turned into a party girl. Our friend LS said, in retrospect, Obama could have done a ton of damage, but he was so drunk with adulation, people fawning all over him nationally and globally, that he didn’t go for the jugular. Yeah, we declined, but it could a been worse.
Obama’s REAL destruction was how divisive he was. People thought they were voting for a common unifier. Instead we got a guy who set back race/class/philosophy relations decades.
Obama could have done a ton of damage, but he was so drunk with adulation, people fawning all over him nationally and globally, that he didn’t go for the jugular.
It was the people behind the scenes that did the damage, Obama just enabled it.
I agree that race relations are not where they were before Obama became President and that's a shame.
Perhaps the ONLY upside to the racial tension Obama created, was that - to a certain extent - we “little people” have come to see that separatism is more about Elitism vs racism.
Now…let’s not be stoopid. There has been a rise in whites embracing a victim mindset that blames blacks, immigrants, etc. for their own failings. And visa versa. It’s a thing.
But with Trump’s re-election coming, in part, by an uptick in minorities voting for Donald, what polling showed was that it’s less about race nowadays (to some extent) and more about “class.”
I’ve documented that ultra liberals are lily white and affluent. They’d sooner eat quiche at the museum than have barbecue at the park.
I am hopeful we return to a better time soon.
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