Kim Kardashian has proved she is down with the kids as she has embraced the baffling Gen Alpha term ‘6, 7’.
Parents and school workers, particularly in the UK and the US, are sharing their confusion around the rise of the expression ‘6, 7’ which is being used by children in and out of the classroom.
The phrase is particularly popular with Gen Alpha, those born between 2010 and 2024, and originates from a song called ‘Doot Doot (6,7)’ by American rapper Skrilla.
It simply means ‘nothing’ and can be used to suggest that a person is ‘average’.
Never one to miss out on a trend, Kim revealed in a hilarious clip from her appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon she plans on bringing back a host of phrases.
While backstage, Jimmy arrived to Kim’s dressing room and said: ‘It should be another 6, 7 minutes’.
Kim Kardashian has proved she is down with the kids as she has embraced the baffling Gen Alpha term ‘6, 7’ in a hilarious clip from her appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon
Never one to miss out on a trend, Kim revealed she plans on bringing back a host of Gen Z and Gen Alpha phrases including ‘no cap’ and ‘the dab’
‘6, 7,’ Kim replied, smiling.
‘Yeah, I don’t think kids are saying that anymore,’ Jimmy replied.
‘I know, it was totally over but I just brought it back. That’s one of my superpowers. I’m Kim Kardashian and I can just bring anything back when I want,’ she said.
‘Seriously?’ Jimmy asked.
‘No cap,’ Kim replied, a term that became popular in the 2020s meaning ‘truthfully’ or ‘genuinely’, to emphasise that the speaker is being honest.
‘You know what else is back?’ she said, and then performed the dab dance move, a viral trend from 2015 thought to have originated in the Atlanta hip-hop scene.
Kim then repeated several old phrases including ‘Wazzup’ from Scary Movie, ‘Groovy baby!’ from Austin Powers and ‘Don’t tase me, bro’, a viral phrase.
The phrase ‘6, 7’ gained traction online with people making videos about sportspeople who they believe aren’t playing well , using a clip from Skrilla’s song.
Elsewhere Taylen Kinney, 17, was asked to rank his Starbucks order, he screwed up his face and said ‘6,7’, thought to be referencing the meme.
While backstage, Jimmy arrived to Kim’s dressing room and said: ‘It should be another 6, 7 minutes’
‘You know what else is back?’ she said, and then performed the dab dance move, a viral trend from 2015
Kim then repeated several old phrases including ‘Wazzup’ from Scary Movie, ‘Groovy baby!’ from Austin Powers and ‘Don’t tase me, bro’, a viral phrase
Other basketball players have now tried to sneak the expression into press conferences and clips as a way to impress and engage their fans.
Since then, the expression has dominated classrooms, so much so that some teachers have actually had to ‘ban’ the phrase.
One wrote on Reddit: ‘I’m an 8th grade teacher and I am so done hearing it that I just banned it from my classroom.
‘You can’t say the two numbers in a row without the class bursting out in a chorus of ‘6-7.’
‘It was funny at first, but now it’s just old and continually interrupts many class conversations.’
Parents and teachers are sharing their confusion around the rise of the expression ‘6,7’ that is taking over schools, classrooms and family homes
Mr R, a Gen Z PE teacher who is also a content creator, also commented on the viral phrase and said: ‘I’m not going to lie, I’m pretty sure my students pay more attention to when the numbers six and seven come up than they do in my PE lessons.’
He also said that when they were doing a warm up and counting to 10, the entire class was chanting ‘six, seven’ when it reached those numbers.
The 27-year-old said: ‘I thought I was pretty clued on with all these trends and everything that’s going on but clearly not.’
In Skrilla’s track, which was first released in December 2024, he says the lyric ‘6,7’ which seemingly refers to 67th Street in Chicago, according to Psychology Today.
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