Mulling over this week’s column, I polled my multigenerational family in our group chat, which includes three Gen Zs, asking if I should write about the 6-7 meme. The options I gave were:
In the lifespan of TikTok, this is rather ancient news. Tweens and teens – not only those in the US, but also in Australia, Singapore, Vietnam and anywhere youths access social media – have been chorusing “SIX SE-ven” maybe 6 or 7 zillion times in the past year.
You, dear non-Gen-Alpha reader, may, however, have only heard about it 6 or 7 days ago – when “67” (also written “6-7”, “6, 7”, “6 7”, and pronounced “six seven”) was declared 2025’s word of the year by Dictionary.com.
