• Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    This just in: adults don’t get kids’ memes. More news at 11.

    I think it’s all fascinating, how adults flip out over kids’ trends every generation, without fail, without ever recalling that they followed silly fads/memes when they were kids, too. Like the “cool S” from the 90s.

    I remember adults coming up with all sorts of absurd ideas, straining to connect it to something meaningful, failing to acknowledge that… it’s just a fun thing to draw. And if it’s fun, that’s all kids need. It didn’t mean we were in a cult, or that it’s a gang symbol, or any other ridiculous narrative. Some teachers got so annoyed or suspicious as to ban it from their classrooms, too.

    I’m not bothered by 6-7. I’m not excited by it like kids are, but I get that it’s fun for them in a way that it isn’t for adults. One of the kids I work with said it the other day. I just laughed and told him, “Congrats on learning your first meme.”

    If it wasn’t 6-7, it would’ve been something else. There’s no point in fighting it - just as other fads and memes have come and gone, this too will fade someday. Possibly to be replaced with something more obnoxious. We’ll have to wait and see.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      Exactly. Do I find it annoying? No, but if I interacted with children much I probably would. Kids are annoying, but stuff like this is culturally valuable because it’s them practicing growing and changing culture. Things that annoy the old people like us are also part of how teenagers get us to leave them alone so they can grow up in peace. From there younger and younger kids copy older kids because that’s how kids work. Then eventually the parents and teachers that understand kids will get in on it poorly when they’re well and truly sick of it.

      Hell, every once in a while the kids get into something good, though it’s usually music or books.

  • Phegan@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Being mad at something kids do is the saddest thing ever. Let them yell their numbers and move on to the next thing.

  • Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    Genuinely have no idea what 67 means and if I wait a year until they tire of it then I won’t have to learn.

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        It’s a meme of a meme of a meme. Some guy was making YouTube shorts about a rap song about a basketball player that plays like he’s 6’7" even though he’s 6’2".

        The kids do it just because of the short and it being goofy shit with the hand movements and funny looking characters. The YouTuber was memeing because the song was about one of the Ball brothers.

        It literally means nothing. Just kids being silly.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Why do we care what the vice president thinks? Shouldn’t he be meeting with a ladies book club or attending a donor’s funeral somewhere? Is he just spouting crap and waiting and hoping for someone’s death?

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    Party of personal freedom and free speech y’all

    I for one believe people should have the freedom to be annoying.