The real meaning of "6 7"
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🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The “6 7" meme was everywhere this year, online and off. Scrolling through TikTok? You probably encountered it. Sitting in math class? Your teacher probably dreaded everyone shouting out the numbers when they came up in class. NPR intern Sanidhya Sharma investigated the phenomenon by going to schools and sitting down with experts. He's here now to report back to Brittany and get into why some memes aren't for everyone.
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| 0:19.8 | So there's this trend that I cannot stop thinking about. |
| 0:23.3 | And maybe you can't either. |
| 0:25.3 | Six-seven. |
| 0:26.7 | My dad is trying to understand what six-seven is. |
| 0:30.3 | And like, I don't know. |
| 0:31.9 | I don't shouldn't use six-seven. |
| 0:33.4 | But that's kind of like what makes it fun because parents don't really understand. |
| 0:37.4 | I kind of feel bad for the parents. I cannot remember the first time I heard it, but it's been everywhere for months. And I have a very special guest here with me to talk about it. Sonathya Sharma, welcome to it's been a minute. Hi, Brittany. Thank you so much for having me. Sonny is an intern here at NPR, and he approached us about doing a story about this hugely popular trend. |
| 0:58.0 | Soni, do you remember the first time you heard about 6-7? |
| 1:01.7 | Honestly, the first time I heard it was because of Lamello Ball, an NBA player for the Charlotte Hornets, who's like 6'7-inchist tall. |
| 1:09.7 | And all the 6-7 stuff was directed at him on |
| 1:12.5 | TikTok so that's just what I thought it was yeah sure but it went so much further than that |
| 1:18.9 | six seven is something kids just started shouting out this year it's a meme that reached a lot of kids |
| 1:25.3 | both in the US and, because it's spread |
| 1:28.4 | partly through the internet. |
| 1:30.4 | Math teachers reported not being able to get through their classes because their students |
| 1:34.3 | just keep saying these two numbers. |
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