"Breaking news: kids repeatedly saying "six-seven" is out for 2026, according to one teacher and her fifth-grade students. And while I am deeply thankful for this, because I cannot deal with hearing that phrase one more time in my own home, I am now curious about what other things are "out" for the tweens in our lives. We can all thank TikTok content creator and fifth-grade teacher, @emilylaurann, because she polled her class to get all the details."
"Like she said, "six seven" is done and totally out. According to the kids, they're all obsessed with the year 2016. "They were really excited when I told them I was a sophomore in high school when 2016 was happening," she said. At the beginning of the year, everyone and their mother was posting pictures of themselves 10 years younger, aka in the year 2016. But this begs the question: How old were these kids in 2016? Were they even born?!"
"Next up, the slang terms "sigma" and "sigma boy" are out. "Skibbity" is also out. "Obviously, they said that was so 2024," she joked before sharing that, according to her students, Italian brain rot and steal brain rot are also both out. Something else that the educator says is "in" is describing something as "bad," but that actually means "good.""
Fifth graders named specific slang that is out for 2026, including 'six-seven', 'sigma', 'sigma boy', 'skibbity', and both 'Italian brain rot' and 'steal brain rot'. The students prefer nostalgia around 2016. The adjective 'bad' is being used to mean 'good.' 'Riz' remains popular, though 'riz lines' (pickup lines) are out. The term 'huzz' is used instead of 'girlfriend' and 'boyfriend', and huzz group chats exist among couples. Many of these trends are considered age-specific, with some marked as for younger grades.
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