Kids are so stupid. We were so stupid back then too. My father literally told me the boys in my school wearing thick steel chains looked like dogs. 🥲🥲 it’s good to make fun of kids, they gain some perspective.
People acted like "skibidi toilet" as a phrase was the harbinger of the End Times, when it just seemed so obvious to me that the reason that little kids like that phrase and those videos is because little kids since time immemorial have loved butt/poop/toilet jokes.
But I think the only person online I've seen make this obvious-to-me observation is Contrapoints, likening it to the popularity of Captain Underpants books when we millennials were a similar age. (In a Patreon-only video about generations)
Kids are stupid and like stupid inside jokes! This has always been true and I'll never get why this is news. Have people forgotten so completely what it was like to be 8 years old themselves?
But like being made fun of by parents is part of the deal too. My parents never let me live down some of my foolishness and that's a good thing. We shouldn't be trying to be cool with the young kids. Thats simply not what older people are supposed to do.
Oh yeah, agreed. I think I was thinking of the moral panic from childless adults. Parents and teachers and other adult authority figures, within limits, lightly jabbing them about this stuff is an important tradition and part of growing up.
Because the term "skibidi toilet" seems silly, and I also guess some of it has to do with it making them feel old. I've noticed a lot of the most intense panicking to weird Gen Alpha slang comes from Gen Z - whereas I think Millennials are kind of used to kid slang being incomprehensible to us by now, but we did plenty of that when Gen Z first started making their cultural mark in the mid/late 2010s.
I found the Tom Green show a little too juvenille, and I slightly resembled him around that time, which I didn't find super flattering, but in hindsight I think he was genuinely funny and interesting in a lot of ways.
Sloosh needs to be brought back but only for thirty-somethings. If you see anyone older or younger saying Sloosh then you have to theatrically roll your eyes and say “ugh, you ruined it.”
A couple of the boys in my second-grader’s class started saying “6-7,” but it died out after a couple of weeks. My fifth-grader goes to a different school and I guess it isn’t a thing there - she heard about it from her little sister!
When I was in second grade, the annoying word of choice was “meep,” but people just said it randomly.
I was at a haunted house event this weekend for Halloween and some kids there were yelling it to try to be funny to other kids, but you could tell it was already dying.
I am still close to my best childhood friend; we met when we were 3 years old (neighbors). His wife and my wife have also been friends since they were toddlers.
Omg we were at my wife’s friends house who’s an elementary school teacher and one of her coworkers made a mistake asking what 67 is and the classroom became totally controllable lmao (and according to her, there’s also “Ballerina Cappuccino” another brain rot trend in Italy on social media taking over her classes)
And now I started to see some teachers doing 67 costumes for Halloween (I saw one friend did it lol)
I know it's meaningless but I am annoyed that 6-7 is what Dictionary.com chose for word of the year. It's just a meme that's only a few months old at this point, it's going to age like milk; like it or not the word of the year has got to be slop.
Please post an audio recording of you saying sloosh.
Major oversight that it was not already part of the article.
My God, I am speechless at the wisdom of Cartoons Hate Her.
I'm going to go home and tell my youngest (an 8th grader): "Six seven!"
And I will do it until she stops saying it.
I just texted my daughter 6-7
Eagerly awaiting the reaction!
Her private school does not allow cell phone usage, so I'm expecting a response around 330pm EST.
Edit: she just ignored me. Figures.
I have fully embraced the fun of saying "Six seven" and my daughter is already annoyed by me doing it. I did the same with Italian Brainrot stuff.
They can't annoy me if I'm a bigger kid than they are!
My dad did this with OK Boomer (he's a Boomer)
https://youtube.com/shorts/VlZmeR90DUU?si=btPTAhTuRckRgC8I
That Dad is my hero!
Make sure to do the hand motion.
Kids are so stupid. We were so stupid back then too. My father literally told me the boys in my school wearing thick steel chains looked like dogs. 🥲🥲 it’s good to make fun of kids, they gain some perspective.
The Simpsons has a bit for every occasion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP5eqKBjyQo
People acted like "skibidi toilet" as a phrase was the harbinger of the End Times, when it just seemed so obvious to me that the reason that little kids like that phrase and those videos is because little kids since time immemorial have loved butt/poop/toilet jokes.
But I think the only person online I've seen make this obvious-to-me observation is Contrapoints, likening it to the popularity of Captain Underpants books when we millennials were a similar age. (In a Patreon-only video about generations)
Kids are stupid and like stupid inside jokes! This has always been true and I'll never get why this is news. Have people forgotten so completely what it was like to be 8 years old themselves?
But like being made fun of by parents is part of the deal too. My parents never let me live down some of my foolishness and that's a good thing. We shouldn't be trying to be cool with the young kids. Thats simply not what older people are supposed to do.
Oh yeah, agreed. I think I was thinking of the moral panic from childless adults. Parents and teachers and other adult authority figures, within limits, lightly jabbing them about this stuff is an important tradition and part of growing up.
Why are childless people moral panicking? I haven’t seen that but I might be wrong…
Because the term "skibidi toilet" seems silly, and I also guess some of it has to do with it making them feel old. I've noticed a lot of the most intense panicking to weird Gen Alpha slang comes from Gen Z - whereas I think Millennials are kind of used to kid slang being incomprehensible to us by now, but we did plenty of that when Gen Z first started making their cultural mark in the mid/late 2010s.
I wouldn't admit under torture that I used to watch the Tom Green Show. No wonder my parents wondered what was wrong with me as a tween.
I actively celebrated The Bum Bum Song as a middle schooler. What's more bizarre is that the show was marketed towards *adults*. Strange times.
I found the Tom Green show a little too juvenille, and I slightly resembled him around that time, which I didn't find super flattering, but in hindsight I think he was genuinely funny and interesting in a lot of ways.
Sloosh needs to be brought back but only for thirty-somethings. If you see anyone older or younger saying Sloosh then you have to theatrically roll your eyes and say “ugh, you ruined it.”
there are times it amazes me you are married and have children
Your parents had a home photocopier? Truly America is the land of wonder.
We had a copier for my mom's job, in the WFH before WFH time!
When it died, we re-enacted the scene from Office Space.
As a Boomer, and therefore perpetually a Main Character, who turned 67 this year, I *know* what this is really about.
A couple of the boys in my second-grader’s class started saying “6-7,” but it died out after a couple of weeks. My fifth-grader goes to a different school and I guess it isn’t a thing there - she heard about it from her little sister!
When I was in second grade, the annoying word of choice was “meep,” but people just said it randomly.
Oh I remember meep
Omg my 9 year says meep constantly. Like “mom mom mom” and I respond and she just goes “meep”. Very annoying on purpose.
I was at a haunted house event this weekend for Halloween and some kids there were yelling it to try to be funny to other kids, but you could tell it was already dying.
The other night my 15-yo daughter asked her 6-yo half-sister the classic "why was 6 afraid of 7" joke. The 6-yo's response? "6-7."
Waaay more rebellious than you're not-working-while working stint. Today, I will be playing Bikini Kill's Rebel Girl in your honor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZxxhxjgnC0&list=RDmZxxhxjgnC0&start_radio=1
Wow, still being friends with someone you knew in 3rd grade is pretty wild. I would never have guessed that given the other CHH lore.
She’s my only old friend. I’m not close with anyone from high school or college.
Well, maybe Mr. CHH
I am still close to my best childhood friend; we met when we were 3 years old (neighbors). His wife and my wife have also been friends since they were toddlers.
when i finished reading this post i felt mildly annoyed but in this case i guess that means it’s working
I would like to know more about your playmobil citizenship files
The CHH Stasi citizenship files must be released!
Omg we were at my wife’s friends house who’s an elementary school teacher and one of her coworkers made a mistake asking what 67 is and the classroom became totally controllable lmao (and according to her, there’s also “Ballerina Cappuccino” another brain rot trend in Italy on social media taking over her classes)
And now I started to see some teachers doing 67 costumes for Halloween (I saw one friend did it lol)
This might be the most effective strategy lolll
This is content worth paying for.
I know it's meaningless but I am annoyed that 6-7 is what Dictionary.com chose for word of the year. It's just a meme that's only a few months old at this point, it's going to age like milk; like it or not the word of the year has got to be slop.
I also think it's arguable that it is two words. While it is "6-7" as mentioned lyrically, the song-title is "Doot Doot (6 7)".