By Movieguide® Staff
Christian artist Danny Gokey weighs in on the baffling “6-7” meme.
“Six-seven, six-seven, man, hush up!” he said in a recent Instagram video. “Psalm 67 says, ‘May God be merciful and bless us. May His face smile with favor upon us. May Your ways be known throughout the earth, Your saving power among the people. May the nations praise You, O God. Yes, may all the nations praise You, let the whole world sing for joy. Because He governs the nations with justice and will guide the people of the entire world.'”
Gokey continued, “‘May the nations praise You, O God. Yes, may all the nations praise You. Then the Earth will yield its harvest and our God will richly bless us. Yes, God will bless us and the people all over the world will fear Him.’”
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The caption of his post reads, “Enough with the 6-7 already 😜 I think it’s time to give it a new meaning.”
For those who don’t know about what Gokey is referring to, don’t worry — no one else does, either.
The “6-7” meme is almost impossible to trace but has taken off like wildfire with kids. A report from CNN hypothesized it came from a rap song titled “Doot Doot (6 7)” by Skrilla.
“Everybody else got their own different meaning,” Skrilla told Complex about the numerical phrase. “But for me, it’s just ‘negative to positive.’ It helped me turn from a negative person to a positive person.”
While there is a deeper meaning in “6-7” to the rapper, for kids, it’s mainly just an excuse to be silly and confuse the adults in their lives.
Gabe Dannenbring, a seventh-grade science teacher in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, told CNN, “Nobody knows what it means, and that’s kind of the funny thing about it.”
“I think that’s part of what upsets people about it, and I think that’s part of what people like about it,” Taylor Jones, a linguist and social scientist, added, calling the phrase’s lack of meaning “semantic bleaching.”
Gail Fairhurst, a University of Cincinnati professor who teaches leadership communication, explained that “language is a way for people to form community. Even if it’s a nonsense term, if they seem to know what it means, that can be a unifying force.”
Jones joked, “The easiest way to kill it is for teachers to say that it’s cool.”
Slang words and phrases are always coming in and out of fashion, but Gokey’s post is a reminder that God’s word will never go out of style.
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