When Jennifer Trujillo first heard her Middle School Band students say “six, seven” in class and blast Glee, she sought the advice of an expert — her 15-year-old daughter.
Trujillo wanted to know what, exactly, his students were saying when they recited the numbers and moved their hands in a juggling motion. Her daughter gave her an unsatisfying answer: “Mom, no one knows.”
And yet, the phrase “Six, Seven” used by children and teenagers seems to be everywhere. It has been found frustrating for adults that at least one school has banned the phrase “67.”
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, which first predicted this way, the word comes from a song by Philadelphia Rapper Skrilla, who told the paper that he never ‘put a real purpose to it.’
Skrilla, real Jemille Edward, told the Times by email that the song “doot doot (6 7)” should not leave the recording studio, but decided to leave it at the end of 2024, and the youth took the phrase when they ran with it.
The name “6-7” became “a beautiful and pleasant thing that people everywhere enjoyed,” he wrote. “6 7!!!!
“6-7” disrupts the class
The lack of meaning behind the saying seems to have been given the power to show everywhere and children to find any reason to declare it out and laugh.
Referred to the latest episode of the Emmy-time winning series “Abbot Elementary” and there was a whole plan for the first episode of Park Park for season 28.
A video posted on social media showed a group of teenagers about to walk in the sun when OUT 67 was finally called.
“You don’t realize how many times you say 67 or six, seven in your daily life until you have a bunch of middle schoolers to remind you,” Trujillo said.
Trujillo, who teaches at Giano Intermediate School in West Covina, likened the experience to an episode of “The Pee-Wee Herman show” from the 1980s that would make everyone on the show explode with joy when the Word is said.
Desarie Alvarez, 13, 8th grade associate student body president at Giano Intermediate, said the phrase has been creating a buzz around campus and the playground for the past few months.
The phrase “6-7” is random, she said, but her classmates find it amusing in terms of note.
“I don’t really see how it’s funny, but I got used to it,” she said.
Teachers in some states discipline their students or ban the phrase altogether when laughter or persistent bullying disrupts the classroom.
Carlos Ochoa, the Principal of Giano Intermediate School, admitted that some of his teachers were upset by the practice and disrupted their class. But for the most part, he said, his teacher goes with it and gives their students a chance to shout “six, seven!” Getting it out of their system, or saying it with them in hopes of making the phrase catch.
“I think our school culture rolls with the punches because you can’t fight this,” Ochoa said.
In Ochoa’s 13th year as principal, he said he has seen many successes and right now, he is preparing for the next one.
Skrilla performs Onstage during Day 5 of Summer-2025 at Henry Maier festival Park on June 27, 2025 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Why the “6-7” trend is gone
Viral Trend can lighten, peak and die in days or weeks.
The plan gets you to catch it first and there’s a slim chance of that, said Karen North, a professor of environmental communication and psychology at USC.
The longevity of “6-7” is normal because skrilla released the song a year ago but it didn’t start gaining momentum until it was used on social media.
It is not clear if it was the first time in 6-7-7. In March, the Basketball ToofLementer Cam Web site posted a video to YouTube from an Athletic Union game in which a teenager came up from the crowd and turned to the camera and said “six, seven.”
Recently, Charlotte Hornges Basketball Player Lamelo Ball, who is 6 inches 6 inches tall, started using music, paying close attention to the song and lip dubbing “6-7” in tiktok videos.
In the north he said he believed “six, 7” went back because the teachers were involved.
“Because there was nothing among the middle class or Elementary BOSTICERS such as Teachers to get angry and try to take action against something, especially if something cannot be prevented,” he said.
A child can argue that they are not breaking the law if they are just having fun when they meet 67 in the world, say in the north, or they end up saying that it is part of the lesson, like in math class.
Why “Six” Always Looks Like a Code Name for Action
“Six, seven” is one of those things where kids have this secret code of fun and make them feel part of the “in crowd,” up north.
It’s probably a game because children have seen that adults can’t avoid sometimes even if they are exposed to the numbers six and seven because they are part of everyday life.
“I have to tell you that I have a PhD and I’m a kid who, if the teacher said ‘You can’t say six seven in my class,’ I would be able to focus six in my class,’ says Northnyeth,” said Northnyeth. “I would think that is the greatest thing in the world.”
North wants to remind parents and teachers that every generation has our secret voice. What used to be “bee’s knees” later became “groovy” which changed to “fire.”
What’s different about the spread of common phrases now is the way social media can massage it quickly but also give it a short shelf life.
Before “six, seven,” there was “skibidi” a phrase born from a video featuring headshots coming out of the toilet. However, it is not used now.
Perhaps, Trujillo reasoned, these silly and silly phrases are a generation’s way of telling everyone to just have fun.
“When you think about all the things our kids are going through this year, and all the bullying and politics going on in the world, we were worried about a lot of stressful things,” she said. “But if we’re worried about two small numbers, you know, maybe this generation is telling us to shine a little.”
