WASHINGTON — Vance 2028, said parents and educators everywhere.
Even the vice president of the United States isn’t immune to the “six-seven” obsession of children that’s getting on the last nerve of every parent and teacher in the US.
Vice President JD Vance jokingly suggesting a “narrow exception” to the First Amendment to ban the numbers after his 5-year-old son, Vivek, became surly with the two simple digits during mass.
“Yesterday at church the Bible readings started on page 66-67 of the missal, and my 5-year-old went absolutely nuts repeating ‘six seven’ like 10 times,” Vance posted to X on Tuesday. “And now I think we need to make this narrow exception to the first amendment and ban these numbers forever.”
The basically meaningless phrase has echoed around classrooms and playgrounds throughout the school year, prompting giggles from children — and headaches for teachers and parents alike.
The chant sometimes even comes with an annoying hand gesture where kids alternate their hands up and down, palms up.
Some moms, dads and teachers even tried to fight fire with fire by dressing up as sixes and sevens for Halloween, or responding to the back seat chorus with “eight, niiiine.”
The obsession with shouting “6-7” has gotten so out of hand among kids, especially elementary age, that police in Indiana are giving out fake “tickets” to any youngsters caught saying it.
“It is now against the law to use the words ‘six’ and ‘seven’ unless using them in a math problem or someone’s age,” a deputy at Tippecanoe County Sheriff’s Office said in a social media video.
If you’re scratching your head — don’t. The brain-rotting slang term means basically nothing, originating with the viral song “Doot Doot (6 7)” by rapper Skrilla, which features the endlessly repeated lyric “six-seven.”
The exact initial context remains personal to the wrapper, but the song became a viral hit when young netizens began associating it with basketball players — specifically LaMelo Ball, who stands 6’7.
“Six-seven represents — my brain. I just come up with it in my head,” Skrilla said in a video posted last month by the Youtube account “Genius,” which aims to explain “the deeper meaning behind music,” according to the account’s about page.
“Everybody I played it for f—ked with it, but it was like, funny,” he explained. “I liked it, though, so I ended up leaking it on my Instagram to see what my fans thought and that sh-t went crazy.”
