"If you're roaming the hallways or lunchrooms of American schools, you might think that kids are suddenly really into math. You'll hear everyone from elementary age kids to high schoolers yell "six seven!" or "41!!!" to their friends with glee. I'm here to report to my fellow adults that brainrot has gotten so rotted that Gen Alpha - kids under 14, or so - are just saying numbers as memes."
"To find out a little more about the how, the why, and the WTH of all this, I talked to Henry De Tolla, who I'd say is one of the foremost experts on teenagers babbling nonsensical memespeak. In fact, he's a driving force of the art himself. You may recognize De Tolla as the face and droll voice of the viral video where he narrates the news that " Baby Gronk just rizzed up Livvy Dunne again ... is Baby Gronk the new rizz king?""
Gen Alpha routinely uses nonsensical number chants such as "six-seven" and "41" as playful brainrot memes across schoolyards and online. The phenomenon manifests as children from elementary to high school shouting numeric exclamations to friends and sharing them on social platforms. Many of the number memes trace back to song clips and mashups, including a LaMelo Ball audio clip combined with a Skrilla song that contained the "six seven" line. Sports-focused meme accounts on TikTok and Instagram amplify and remix these sounds within the youth-sports niche, linking meme culture to a large youth sports ecosystem.
Read at Business Insider
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