Many adults are breathing a sigh of relief as the 6-7 meme fades away as one of the biggest kid-led global fads of 2025.

If you’re older than Gen Z, then it’s probably hard to keep track of every TikTok trend and internet craze that pops up. That is, until it breaches the containment of whatever app it started on and ...

Not since 69 has a number caused this much disruption. “6-7,” pronounced “six-seveeeeen,” is haunting school halls across the country (including South Park Elementary), making it the Gen Alpha ...

The expression "6-7" spread like wildfire last year, making its way outside the realm of usual adolescent slang and into the ...

When Jennifer Trujillo first heard her middle school band students say "6-7" in class and explode with glee, she sought out the advice of an expert — her 15-year-old daughter. Trujillo wanted to know ...

*If children have suddenly begun shouting “6-7!” in class, at home, or during playtime, they are part of one of 2025’s biggest viral fads. The “6-7” trend has taken over TikTok and Instagram Reels, ...

Warning: You are about to enter the world of brain rot If you’ve been around a middle-schooler recently and made the grave mistake of uttering the seemingly innocuous numbers 6 and 7, you were likely ...

Go ahead and roll your eyes. Shrug your shoulders. Or maybe just juggle your hands in the air. Dictionary.com’s word of the year isn’t even really a word. It’s the viral term “6-7” that kids and ...

What started as a meme has now become the Word of the Year for 2025. Yes, the phrase “6 7” — pronounced by kids far and wide as “six SEHV-un” — was crowned this week as Dictionary.com’s Word of the ...

Not since 69 has a number caused this much disruption. “It’s like a plague — a virus that has taken over these kids’ minds,” said Gabe Dannenbring, a seventh-grade science teacher in Sioux Falls, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Middle school students are disrupting classes by shouting “6-7,” a meaningless phrase from a rap song that has ...