These people still don’t care for the First Amendment.
The very short article makes it pretty clear that this a was a joke. When we take these types of headlines at face value we become just as mindless as the maga crowd.
Vice President JD Vance jokingly called for instituting a “narrow exception to the First Amendment” Tuesday to prohibit Americans from uttering the numbers “six” and “seven,” referencing the viral meme that has exploded in popularity among children and teens, including Vance’s own five-year-old child.
“Yesterday at church the Bible readings started on page 66-67 of the missal, and my 5-year-old went absolutely nuts repeating ‘six seven’ like 10 times,” Vance wrote in a social media post on X. “And now I think we need to make this narrow exception to the first amendment and ban these numbers forever.”
The meme, which has baffled and confused adults for months, traces its roots to the 2025 song “Doot Doot (6 7) by rapper “Skrilla,” which had been used on highlight videos of the professional basketball player LeMelo Ball, whose height is 6’7. Clips of basketball players and young sports fans uttering the phrase “six, seven” while doing exaggerated hand gestures also accelerated the meme’s spread.
The meme’s use in schools has been so prominent among young children and teens that some have begun banning its use, a policy that Vance now appears to agree with, at least in jest.
“Where did this even come from?” Vance continued. “I don’t understand it. When we were kids all of our viral trends at least had an origin story.”
Thanks for being the voice of reason!
There’s so many awful things these people are doing, we don’t need to make stuff up to get mad about.
This is some quality reporting - that’s more details on the memes’ origination than I’ve ever read before. As far as I knew it was utterly random.
“Where did this even come from?” Vance continued. “I don’t understand it. When we were kids all of our viral trends at least had an origin story.”
First of all - hilarious that the article explains where it came from and then ends with this quote.
But no, we absolutely did not have an origin story for all of our childhood memes. Every kid knew about the Mew under the truck in Pokémon red/blue, or that Marilyn Manson removed a rib. People still marvel today at the proliferation of that (false) information - how did we all hear it, and where in the world did it come from?
The problem is that he is appatently comfortable making these “jokes” in the first place.
I think this is the least problematic thing he has done to my knowledge
That’s “a” problem to be sure, but perhaps not “the” problem. For example, every president for the past 36 years has pardoned a turkey for thanksgiving. Given the genocide of Native Americans by the US government, and the supposed occasion of Thanksgiving this seems like many smacks in many faces. Or making light of execution, which America is just one of 3 OECD countries (us, japan, and south korea) who even have capital punishment anymore, is in extremely poor taste. So joking about free speech is tone deaf I agree, but not unprecedentedly so, and not necessarily the purview of either party.
Long story short, there are bigger fish to fry, and we can’t afford to waste our anger rather than apply it where it belongs.
As a joke it probably would’ve been more funny if it weren’t for all the reporting about how they were deporting people for posting JD Vance memes and are now demanding to see everyone’s social media accounts at the border.
I agree with you.
Is also think our VP is in poor taste to make jokes about how he’d like to fire off an exception to the 1st amendment. It’s just another example of total disrespect for our constitution and personal arrogance within the executive branch.
Mr Vance, as your public relations manager, I fully support the idea of pushing to ban “memes.” This will only serve you positive results and will absolutely bolster your already soaring popularity among literally everyone. Good show. Slow clap.
We should ban the numbers 6 and 7 from all schools.
They’re arabic!
Nobody takes this seriously (I hope), but coming from MAGA’s #2, it’s all just a little too on the nose.
I have a feeling it’s related to that one South Park episode
They want to broach it now “half seriously” so that in 4 months when someone makes another mean meme with Vance as a baby or Trump in a messy diaper, they can bring it up again and half the population will roll their eyes and tune out the actual bill they try to pass to control “memes.”
meh
People taking dumbass shit like this seriously is why the right will do literally whatever the fuck they want in this country. It takes 2 seconds of critical thinking and investigation to see that this is a complete nothing statement made as a joke. Yet half the people in the comments are gonna lock themselves in a bedroom and cry over this “attack on free speech”.
I really fucking hate it when people say “both sides are just as bad”, but c’mon guys. This is “the LIBS are trying to make your kids TRANS!” levels of stupid.
Raw Story and The Daily Beast are garbage sites that make the left look stupid
We have a president openly selling pardons, violating the Emoluments clause of the Constitution, illegally accepting bribes and gifts from foreign countries, and breaking laws without a second thought. Six Supreme Court justices openly accepting bribes from plaintiffs in cases before them, then ruling in their favor. Those justices completely ignore the Constitution, black-letter law and 250 years of precedent and make shit up to justify decisions that have no possible justification. A HHS chief who believes Youtube over science and is dismantling the very organization he oversees, plus blocking new vaccine development and deployment of existing, effective vaccines. The list goes on and on.
The GQP has shown that they will do whatever the fuck they want because there are literally no consequences. Some people crying over attacks on free speech isn’t going to make a damn bit of difference to them either.
For the awareness of the elderly, 6-7 is starting to evolve, at least locally, into a call and response with the response to a 6-7 hand gesture being 8-9 with a kind of horizontal movement of vertical hands in a similar fashion. I’m unsure how local the trend is, it’s true origin, or if it will spread.
It’s interesting that to those not initiated into the call and response by peers will see knowledgeable non-peers providing the response as mocking or failing to understand the meme, thus further cementing it’s role as a tool as an in joke to the 6-7’er, despite them now being on the outside of the evolution of the joke, which is a wonderful contradiction.
Can you explain what 6 - 7 means?
It’s not just that it means nothing, it’s that it exists as the implication of something or anything that can be used to identify with the in-group.
There’s nothing more free speech than banning a stupid meme.
6-7 You couch fucker.
How the fuck do you “ban” something like this? Everyone wears a monitor? Track down and deport anyone who posts it online?
The idiocy of this doomed country is exhausting.
I’d say the idiocy lies with anyone who can’t understand a clear joke.
Say, I bet you have an English degree and all.
Caning ? A short sharp shock is all these little idiots can understand.
Wow, he really goes the extra mile to make sure everyone hates him.
JD Vance also couldn’t absolutely stand Pokemon.
He’s clearly not the very best
No, his daughter was saying “666 Daddy 666”
You know he likes a big, beautiful couch with 6-7 sections or so.
Oh come the fuck on, stupid piece of shit just ensured its never going away now… God damnit.
Oh shit that one’s real!?
No. Read the article.
