“Six-seven!”

If you’ve been anywhere near kids lately, you’ve probably heard it: shouted across classrooms, echoed down sidewalks or gleefully screamed by toddlers who picked it up from older siblings.

For adults trying to decode it, “6-7” might sound like pure nonsense, and that’s exactly the point.

The phrase has swept from TikTok to playgrounds to dinner tables, becoming a bizarre but oddly unifying inside joke for Gen Alpha (and driving math teachers everywhere to the brink of insanity).

Where it started

The “6-7” craze traces back to rapper Skrilla’s drill-rap track “ Doot Doot (6 7) .” With its looping lyrics and infectious beat, the song was made for social media – easy to remix, exaggerate and meme into oblivion.

By early 2025, TikTokers had paired the track w

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