Wait, what's '6-7'? Why the internet's favourite number is now Word of the Year

IT’S official, we’re old. While we're still trying to decode Gen Z slang like rizz and gyatt, Dictionary.com has just crowned “6-7” as its Word of the Year for 2025.

- VUYILE MADWANTSI

WITH over two million posts catalogued under #67 on TikTok, the trend shows no signs of slowing down.

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The internet’s most viral “word” isn’t even a word; it’s just two numbers that somehow broke the internet, infiltrated classrooms, and made us all collectively question what language even is anymore.

So, what exactly is 6-7? Why are teenagers chanting it like a secret handshake, and what does it say about how we communicate today?

According to online reports, it all began last year when rapper Skrilla casually dropped the line “6-7, I just bipped right on the highway” in his song Doot Doot (6 7). Nothing deep. No hidden message. Just a random lyric until TikTok got a hold of it.

Within weeks, “6-7” became a viral chant, a meme, and a generational in-joke.

Suddenly, every corner of social media was echoing 6-7 from South Park parodies to teachers using it as a classroom call-and-response (yes, that’s a thing). Some even linked it to NBA player LaMelo Ball, who happens to be 6-foot-7, turning him into the internet's accidental mascot.