Is “6 7” truly meaningless?
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There’s been a lot of discourse about what “6 7” means, but what actually makes it meaningful?
The “6 7″ meme was everywhere this year, online and off. Scrolling through TikTok? You probably encountered it. Sitting in math class? Your teacher probably dreaded everyone shouting out the numbers when they came up in class. NPR intern Sanidhya Sharma investigated the phenomenon by going to schools and sitting down with experts. He’s here now to report back to Brittany and get into why some memes aren’t for everyone.
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This episode was produced by Liam McBain. It was edited by Aaron Edwards and Neena Pathak. We had engineering support from Jay Czys. Our Supervising Producer is Barton Girdwood. Our Executive Producer is Veralyn Williams. Our VP of Programming is Yolanda Sangweni.
