网络上流行的“六七”迷因，源于说唱歌手Skrilla的歌曲《Doot Doot》，歌词中的“6-7”因其独特的节奏感而走红。起初可能与费城一条街道有关，但其真正病毒式传播的动力来自于TikTok。用户将歌曲与篮球运动员（尤其是身高6英尺7英寸的LaMelo Ball）的剪辑结合，使其迅速流行。之后，一个孩子在篮球比赛中模仿歌词并配合手势，将其变成了一种表情符号（emote），这种上下摆动的手势成为了现实生活中“六七”迷因的标准动作。如今，“六七”迷因已脱离其最初的含义，成为一种无厘头的、充满乐趣的表达方式，用于抓住一切机会制造幽默感，其流行速度和传播范围也体现了TikTok对语言和文化的影响力。

🎤 **迷因的起源与演变**： “六七”迷因最初源于说唱歌手Skrilla的歌曲《Doot Doot》，歌词中的“6-7”因其独特的节奏感而走红，可能与费城一条街道有关。随后，在TikTok平台上，该迷因通过与篮球运动员（特别是身高6英尺7英寸的LaMelo Ball）的视频剪辑结合而迅速传播，进一步扩大了其影响力。

🖐️ **从歌曲到表情符号的转化**： 迷因的传播过程中，一个孩子在篮球比赛中的模仿行为起到了关键作用。他不仅使用了歌词，还配合了标志性的上下摆动的手势，将“六七”从一个听觉符号转化为一种视觉表情符号（emote），这种手势成为了该迷因在现实生活中最常见的表现形式。

🤪 **脱离原意，纯粹的乐趣表达**： 如今，“六七”迷因已在很大程度上脱离了其原始的歌曲、篮球或身高含义。它演变成了一种无厘头的、充满乐趣的表达方式，人们使用它来制造幽默感，抓住一切可以开玩笑的机会。这种现象也反映了TikTok等平台在快速塑造和传播网络语言方面的强大能力。

⏳ **短暂的流行周期**： 尽管“六七”迷因目前非常流行，但正如许多网络趋势一样，它预计不会持续太久。根据文章的预测，这类迷因的生命周期通常有限，可能在几个月内就会逐渐消退，这与网络流行文化的快节奏特性相符。

Parents everywhere are likely frightened to count to 10 in their own homes, lest they tempt their children by getting to the numbers six and seven.

If that means nothing to you, then you've successfully avoided the 6-7 meme. Congrats to you and your blissfully offline life. That sounds healthy.

But for the logged-on masses, kids saying six-seven to everything has simply become a fact of life. And yes, that is pretty much it: people are just saying six-seven in a particular cadence...and that is the meme. It's everywhere right now — and it has a somewhat peculiar origin story.

How the 6-7 meme started

In short, the meme comes from a rap track called "Doot Doot" by Skrilla, during which he sings "6-7" in the familiar cadence. Know Your Meme notes this is likely a reference to a street in Philadelphia.

But the meme isn't really in reference to the song. Not really, anyway. TikTok virality relies heavily on sounds, and people used the song to make edits of basketball players — most notably, 6-foot-7 tall LaMelo Ball — which took off.

From there, as memes typically do, the whole meaning and use of 6-7 evolved. The most important iteration involved a kid at a basketball game effectively using the lyric, paired with an up-and-down hand motion, as an emote, which is when an avatar in a video game does a movement typically just for fun or celebration.

That up-and-down movement became the default way kids meme six-seven in real life.

So...what is the 6-7 meme?

In short, it's nonsense. It's silly. It's filler and fun to say. The meme isn't really about the song, or about basketball, or height, or even really the numbers six and seven. It's taking any excuse to be silly. So if someone says six, seven, six-seven, or 67, then you have the opportunity to do the meme. Or you can just do the meme because it's funny to say.

We've written at Mashable in the past that TikTok has a unique ability to shape language. Among kids, that's especially true. Young people have always relied on creating their own shared language, but the TikTok generation is able to do it overnight. You can go from a rap song to a basketball player to a kid at a game to an entirely new, extremely viral phrase in no time at all.

So if you hear a kid saying six-seven all the time, it's likely something they're saying because, well, everyone is saying it. At this point, it is totally divorced from its origins and just a thing to do.

And if it's proven annoying to the parents out there, don't worry. These trends don't last. I see it going on for six, seven more months at most.