What Does 6-7 Mean?

6-7 (pronounced “six seven”) is a numerical utterance that swept across Earth’s digital communication networks in early 2025 with the inexplicable virulence of a particularly catchy sneeze.

The phrase originated in a musical composition by an Earth artist named Skrilla, who incorporated these numbers into what humans call “drill rap”—a form of rhythmic speaking that, to the untrained alien ear, sounds remarkably like someone trying to communicate while being chased by something unpleasant. The numbers may reference a street in Chicago, though asking humans to explain why street numbers become catchphrases is like asking a Vogon to explain why they enjoy poetry: you won’t get a satisfying answer, and you’ll regret asking.

What makes 6-7 particularly fascinating to xenosociologists is that it means absolutely nothing. This hasn’t stopped Earth’s younger inhabitants—specifically those belonging to what they call “Generation Z” and “Generation Alpha” (humans are obsessed with categorizing themselves into groups by age, as though much has even changed on their planet in the past 400 years.)—from shouting it at basketball games, scrawling it on examination papers, and generally inserting it into conversations where it has no business being.

The meme achieved peak absurdity when a young human, subsequently dubbed “67 Kid,” was recorded bellowing the phrase at a sporting event with such enthusiasm that he became briefly more famous than people who actually do things. This is entirely consistent with Earth’s celebrity culture, where being memorable for fifteen seconds is considered a viable career path.

The phenomenon has been classified by Earth’s own social commentators as “brain rot”—a term humans use to describe digital content that makes their cognitive functions deteriorate, which they then consume in vast quantities anyway. This is roughly equivalent to a Betelgeusian deliberately standing in a probability field while complaining about the uncertainty.

Note to travelers: If a young Earthling shouts “six seven” at you while making alternating hand gestures, the appropriate response is to nod politely and back away slowly. Do not attempt to understand it. The humans don’t understand it either, and they invented it.

The meme spawned a companion phenomenon called “41,” which operates on identical principles of meaninglessness, suggesting that humans have discovered they can create infinite variations of saying numbers enthusiastically and calling it culture.

Cultural significance: None whatsoever, which is precisely why it spread to every corner of Earth’s internet in approximately three weeks—faster than most of their important scientific discoveries and considerably more enthusiastically received.