What does ‘6-7’ mean? Nobody knows, but kids can’t stop saying it

The popular phrase “6-7” took off a few months ago. It’s thought to have originated from a rap song by Skrilla, but the experts on this are the kids.

Among the youngest kids who are in on the 6-7 trend is my 6-year-old nephew, Bryson, and he tells me the numbers don’t really mean anything.

“I don’t even know, it just came out in 2025 because of the brainrot, it’s from the brainrot on Roblox,” Bryson said.

Popular slang terms through the years

It’s the latest example of slang through the years from the hippy generation, where things were hip and far out, to the 90s, where everyone was asking, “Wazzup?”

Now to these days, if you’re wondering what the skibidi is going on, and how all this brain rot is getting to us, you’re not delulu, it’s all pretty Ohio, but the kids just want us to let them cook.

If you have no idea what I just said, let me break it down. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, skibidi is gibberish; it has no actual meaning but can also be used to say something is cool.

Brain rot means mindless online content. Delulu is simply short for delusional. Ohio means strange, weird, or bad. And lastly, let them cook means let them do their own thing.

According to a recent study by Prodigy, 35% of parents struggle to understand their kids’ vocabulary. Additionally, 70% of parents use slang when talking with their kids, but more than half of those parents say their children find it cringe when they do.

Now, back to 6-7, some schools have banned the phrase in classrooms. Several teachers on TikTok say they have had enough.

“We are not saying the word 6-7 anymore. If you do, you have to write a 67-word essay,” a teacher said to the class.

But so far it’s still pretty trendy. To be clear, in my research, no one seems to know what 6-7 means.

If you were completely lost during this story, all you need to know is that 6-7 is just the latest example of internet talk being used in everyday language.

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