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No one is safe from this frighteningly viral trend: not in schools, not in churches, and not in the White House.
Vice President JD Vance She said the meaningless expletive had entered her five-year-old son’s vocabulary, apparently causing an embarrassing scene during their mass service over the weekend.
“Yesterday at church the Bible reading started on pages 66-67 of the parable and my 5 year old went absolutely nuts repeating ‘six seven’ 10 times,” Vance, 41, posted on Instagram on Tuesday, before joking that the Bible would read “66-67.” First Amendment right to freedom of speech.
He added, “And now I think we need to create this narrow exception in the First Amendment and ban these numbers forever.”
Vance later said in a follow-up tweet: “Where did this come from? I don’t understand it. When we were kids all of our viral trends had at least one origin story.”
This trend has an origin story, even if its beginnings don’t explain the awesomeness. widespread popularity Of numbers.
“67” comes from rapper Skrilla’s song “Doot Doot (6 7)”, which refers to the six-foot-seven-inch-tall basketball player. The term rose to fame on the Internet through viral videos and memes featuring NBA player LaMelo Ball.
Although it technically means nothing, “67” is known to be repeated and sometimes echoed in a call-and-response pattern among young people. Often shouted and paired with juggling motions, this phrase has become indispensable and was even Named 2025 Word of the Year.
Vance isn’t the only adult who is fed up with the term. There are teachers all over America banning slang language in their classroomsAs it becomes more distracting. Teachers have banned this word by deducting marks for students or giving essays that make them understand the meaningless trend.
“I’ve been teaching for 20 years and I’ve dealt with all kinds of abuse — nothing has made me more mad than that,” said Adria Laplander, a sixth-grade language arts teacher in Michigan. Today In October.
A school county in Indiana recently started “Ticketing” Children who were on school days said “67” in a spoof video shared on social media. The Sheriff’s Department joked that they passed a fake law to “keep parents sane during this time.”
west coast fast food chain In-N-Out Burgers also recently dropped the number “67” Its ordering system caused complete chaos due to the hordes of teenagers flocking to the restaurant whenever the number was read out.