JD Vance also wants to ban 67 amid viral frenzy
www.the-independent.com
Vance said his five-year-old ‘went absolutely nuts’ over the phrase
  • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.worldEnglish
    341·
    7 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.worldEnglish
      7·
      6 days ago

      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.

  • ruuster13@lemmy.zipEnglish
    23·
    7 days ago

    When we were kids all of our viral trends at least had an origin story.

    Like that one where Marilyn manson removed some ribs so he could fuck his couch better.

  • borQue@lemmy.zipEnglish
    16·
    7 days ago

    Funny. I’m from the seventies and when we were daydreaming back then about the year 2025… we saw people flying around in transparent bubbles, living in full harmony in futuristic scifi buildings… Who could have thought we would be thrown back in time almost perfectly similar to the nazi regime of the Germans and dangerous idiots like that Orange Satan and its dog Fence being “chosen” as the most important people of a country… It’s devolution.

    I vote for recolonisation. This one has failed.

  • Randelung@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    7 days ago

    It’s the best meme I’ve ever heard now. Watch me put it 6 7 times in every comment.

    … Wait no. I can’t if you’re watching.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    7 days ago

    So Americans should now count 65, 66, 68, 69? At least this is in line with measuring things with non-metric units.

  • Phegan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    6 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.

  • cley_faye@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    7 days ago

    “Oh no, a number, that’s threatening the greatness of the US and we must act immediately!”

    • Some couch fucker, probably
  • melsaskcaEnglish
    10·
    7 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?