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As a dad who tries to connect with his kids, I made a 67 reference last week. Their response: “Oh Dad, 67 is old now.” Kids these days can’t even commit to the bit. 🤣
Another case for the jury
At least 69 is representative of something. 67 is literally meaningless.
XKCD made me aware of the fact that this sorta joke has been going on since way before any of us were born. 23 skidoo is an old trendy phrase that’s made up of two jokes that mean nothing definable on their own
Today’s 67 is 1899’s 23
From the XKCD alt text:
In 1899, people were walking around shouting `23’ at each other and laughing, and confused reporters were writing articles trving to figure out what it meant.
69 fucks
Technically speaking, 69 sucks.
And there’s the beauty: it does both!
A better comparison would be our 21
21 to me means luck because you won at blackjack.
But that’s why its perfect
It’s literally not, you just don’t know what it means.
Carefully observe how the above argument lacks any supporting argument or information.
Curious.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/67-meme
Right there after a 30 second search
When asked by Complex[7] about the meaning of the numbers, Skrilla said, “Everybody else got their own different meaning. But for me, it’s just ‘negative to positive.’ It helped me turn from a negative person to a positive person.”
In a comment to the Wall Street Journal[11] from the same timeframe, he also said, “I never put an actual meaning on it, and I still would not want to … That’s why everybody keeps saying it.”
So it’s a number repeated in a song that the artist says has no meaning, instead of it just being a meaningless number.
Glad you helped clear that up. Way to prove everyone wrong.
10-67 means something.
The 67 meme literally means nothing. It’s not even referencing the code, or the song it originally went viral to which was referencing the police code.
I would argue that it has an origin but lost its meaning since the people who use it don’t know the meaning. At this point, it’s more than anything a cultural signifier which isn’t a new thing either. People try to belong to an ingroup and adopt their insider even if only as marker of that group.
I feel so seen! :-P
BTW, 42.
Dont get me started on skibidi toilet!
I grew up on source film maker slop but I will take the opportunity to hate on the corporatisation of SFM shitposts. Why the fuck is there skibidi toilet merch? A movie? What the fuck, are they going to make a movie based on Shrekophone? Fucking fuck I want off this ride
Our glorious Gmod videos
Their horrible SFM animations
I legit enjoy it and think it’s a fun commentary on legacy vs contemporary media.
TBF though, the Slop Posting isn’t comparable at all. Slop is actual negative value given form.
There is a point where random noises become a song. Disposability of culture is, to my eye, a novelty that hasn’t yet reached the point of becoming a song. It’s just random noises, and I want to silence them with a heavy pipe to the throat
Could say the same for:
Politics.
Religion.
Ethnic groups.
Sport teams.
Cola preference.
Cutting some bits off your genitals or not.
Operaring systems.
Humans are a hoot, huh?
The first three things you brought up are the concepts literally criticised by the unedited original cartoon.
Politics at its root is ideals about how to structure society though. It does, however, devolve into a team sports mentality in a lot of cases, which is I think what you’re getting at.
Yea, several of those things have actual qualitative and quantitative measurements on which they can be compared, but far be it from the common dingdong to think in such lofty terms…
Wait, who the hell is pro genital mutilation!?
… Oh wait, Jews do circumcision… siiiiigghhhh
(I’m also aware some areas of India/middle east do FGM too, but I don’t remember if it’s for anything close to religous reasons)
Most Christians in the US.
Throws up a little in my mouth.
… Thanks, I wanted to taste breakfast again!
