What Teenagers Are Saying About ‘6-7’ and the Era of ‘Brain Rot’

NY Times ^ | December 4, 2025 | The Learning Network

[Sirius Lee]

Say, toots. What’s the skinny on this 6/7? Is this just applesauce? Or are they hittin’ the hooch? The giggle juice?

[Nateman]

Why was 6 afraid of 7? Because 7,8,9 !

[YouGoTexasGirl]

Rope a dope for sure 10-4....good buddy!

[DoodleBob]

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.

[DoodleBob]

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.

[dfwgator]

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.

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It was the people behind the scenes that did the damage, Obama just enabled it.

[MinorityRepublican]

Obama enjoyed spending time on yachts and hanging out over at Martha's Vineyard and it was too much work for him to become a full-time dictator.

I agree that race relations are not where they were before Obama became President and that's a shame.

[DoodleBob]

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.