I know that questioning things is not well accepted in this subreddit, but what exactly happened? What class this was were the kid had a ball in hand, was close enough to hear the teacher and the teacher asked for a two digit number?
i figure it was a combination of this and "oops". kids are prone to being rough and can just do this shit on accident when trying to be funny. i took several artificially manufactured material sports balls to the face in middle school gym that usually resulted in something along the lines of "oh shit fuck i wasn't aiming there i swear to god, it was supposed to be funny/i thought you would move" from the balling party. we never did any baseball-adjacent stuff but i can't imagine it being that different, especially if the kids didn't actually realize how much more concentrated damage a dense baseball can do compared to others they may be used to.
It only happened to me once in school and it was the first time other than an MMA fight I would have a decade later where time freezes, and I'm suddenly looking up at people. Also not a baseball, but a basketball to the back of the dome wasn't fun.
I mean, they say “fast ball” by my guess would be some class activity where you throw a ball around as a sort of “whose turn is it to talk” activity. They’re super common, and because the balls are usually lighter, kids often don’t consider how much harm they can do if chucked at high speed.
Source: I have had kids do this in class, tho luckily no broken noses
They could throw anything not just a ball. I know some kids in my school would throw textbooks and binders ect. A fastball is just a type of throw not the object
It's possible that the time between the answer being given and the ball being thrown was not immediate. It could've happened after the class ended or maybe he had a ball in his backpack and threw it after arguing about the number? It still seems possible, but more detail is definitely needed
Maybe in the USA is normal, considering how easy is to get a weapon in class, but in my country kids cant be playing in class, much less with something as obvious as a ball. And even if it was gym class, there are still weird things about it.
You can, but that's the thing, if you are playing with a ball, you are not in fron of other child that is speaking with the teacher, listening to their conversation and able to hit the nose despite how the kid should be looking at the teacher.
Oh. Interesting. There’s never once been a time where students are talking with the teacher just after playing a game and just before putting things away?
It’s not entirely easy to understand what they meant but this is also clearly written by someone in grade school so I’m assuming they’re a bad writer and just worded it weird and didn’t make it clear that the conversation happened at one point and sometime later that day, the kid threw the ball at him. Could have been in gym class or recess.
Not US. As long as it's not disturbing anyone the teachers most likely won't care, especially on the younger side so sth like tennis ball would probably be tolerated in class and detrimental if thrown at somebody's face
From what I understand, it doesn't really mean anything. It apparently came from a song reverence 6'7" basketball players, but most people dont' even remember that. It just started getting repeated for no particular reason.
Now kids keep saying it, even though it doesn't really mean anything.
EDIT: After further comments, it seems that there are 5 million stories behind what the song is actually referencing so no one seems to know where the song got it. So we are back to it really meaning nothing as far as anyone but the song writer is concerned.
(could be wrong but) when i looked into it i was taken to a song where the 67 referred to a police code, 10-67, which notifies officers to investigate a death report. so its a little mature for kids to be babbling about all the time
Kids don't understand it in that context though, so it's not really that serious. Kids are drawn to find dumb things funny. The adults need to cope to be honest.
It was semi-popularized (at least popularized enough to reach the patient 0 ice cream cut kid) through sports edits of basketball players who were 6’7”.
The song itself became common in edits because of one player who was 6’7” and was a fan of the song and would quote the adlib with the hand motion.
Most kids only know the video of the 2 kids saying 6’7”, but it still has a bit of meaning and was made popular by that video.
I've went to public school in the us my whole life, I've seen fights, but never over something like this. People exaggerate the whole "brain rot" thing significantly, almost nobody is actually "brainrotted." It's just humor.
I think this is a fallacy. just because it didn't happen to you and you didn't experience it doesn't make it unlikely and doesn't mean others who had different experiences are "blowing it out of proportion". you can't use your own anecdotal experiences as a basis for such claims.
You just graduated, which means you still have very little life experience. You are still in the stage where you believe your own experiences are everyone else’s. In time, you will find how faulty that logic is and why people can believe this happened. I graduated over 20 years ago and I could see this happening in any year of school.
This is really only plausible if the child is in elementary school. Around 2-4th grade and I doubt a 7 year old is on reddit talking about 67.
Just think about it. A teacher says "someone give me a two digit number!" (Plausible)
Somone says a different number(plausible) somone is upset they didn't say 67( plausible) that person is so upset and outraged they stand up from their seat walk over to the other kid and punches them right in the face because they didn't say 67? They punched them so hard they had to go to the nurse?
A 12-18 year old did that?
That's what you are choosing to believe?
Come on. Most likely the person shouted "you should've said 67" and everyone agreed and started saying 67 until the teacher told them to shut the fuck up.
You're telling me back in the day in math class if people didn't say "21!" They'd get punched. Is that how cut throat y'all's version of brain rot was?
And when you read the story it doesn't make sense. It's either a punch or a ball. A ball doesn't make sense because a gym/ pe teacher is not asking for numbers. And even if they were dividing into teams 35 is not an even number and it's too big. This doesn't make sense. And in math class only a punch would make sense, but oop said ball.
I think the older generation is annoyed by the gen alpha jokes they don't get and are trying to make this into a super huge thing. Don't get me wrong brain rot is rampant amongst gen alpha and is kinda a problem, but 67 is just the new 21.
I have kids in 8th and 10th grade, and I could believe this happened in a middle school
ETA I don't know where you are getting the punching, it says he threw a fastball. I would agree that walking over and getting punched is unrealistic (or incredibly poor classroom management) but that's not what it said.
it got insanely popular back in the day just because the way the kid says 21 is funny and for grade-schoolers it it got to the point where you could say 21 for any reason and it'd be found funny, not unlike 67 rn
here's a silly absurdist riff on the joke from more recent years that i liked
Are you good dude? Like, I wouldn't be surprised if this happened at my school and I'm a senior in high school. The newest generation of freshman are just that stupid. You must have been home schooled because man, you're pretty dumb.
You literally said like half of it was plausible, so it wasn't poorly written.. yeah, and tell me how you aren't dumb again? And you graduating? You're funny
Do you know what plausible means? It means something is possible.
I went to the store. I bought a cupcake. I paid in ones. I played some music in my car. Then a dinosaur came down from the sky and told me I am the chosen one.
In the passage above you can see how 4/5 of the sentences are plausible (possible). That's over half. The last one is not plausible(possible). The story is not true.
A sentence or a statement can have plausible(possible) parts and be completely a lie.
Something that is poorly written can be plausible(possible). The writing style does not affect the validity of a passage. However the content affects the validity. Me saying the writing was poor was an observation.
The same way a sentence that is true can have a lie. And a lie can have a bit of truth.
These are the people graduating next year. The education system is really failing.
Oh, I do have those, I just like rage baiting people, I believe its real because, you know. Im still in school and see it for my own eyes but I don't have to prove it to someone who doesn't believe me. So, for fun I like to rage bait people who will never believe me and don't want to be proven wrong.
I know you're rage baiting, but at least commit to the bit.
Honestly I think I'm wrong. You actually might be in highschool. A lot of y'all can't rage bait well because #1 it's very obvious #2 you don't actually want anyone to believe you're stupid so you back track last second.
Unfortunately I use my brain more often than not so it's hard for me to stop writing extra long paragraphs.
Everyone always thinks I'm taking everything oh so personally, but I just write a lot. Idk when more words = I care more. That's not even true more words =I have more things to say. I was just breaking it down so if my comment was seen someone would see how ridiculous this story is.
Look already this comment is super long. I just can't help myself. If you start thinking more too you'll also start writing more.
I don’t get the connection between choosing 35 (why did he have to choose a number? And was it publicly announced?) and then getting a fastball thrown at you. What is going on here
This actually doesn’t make sense tho. Why would the teacher ask the student for a 2 digit number but then choose a number on his own? Or did the friend say 35 and a different kid threw the ball at the friend for not saying 67? Cuz this reads that the teacher was the one that got hit, which makes no sense given the course of events.
Genuine question- What is making kids nowadays and the newer generations act like this?? I know a lot of it is due to electronics, social media, iffy parenting, and other things like that, but even talking to people around my age (21) feels like there’s such a social gap anymore. I’ll compliment another girl sweater and she’ll look at me like I just committed a murder! Anyways, not to rant just am really curious as to why this has been happening!
I know that questioning things is not well accepted in this subreddit, but what exactly happened? What class this was were the kid had a ball in hand, was close enough to hear the teacher and the teacher asked for a two digit number?
Probably gym class. Sometimes gym teachers might ask for a two digit number to randomize students or to pick an activity or something.
My gym teacher always did it
i figure it was a combination of this and "oops". kids are prone to being rough and can just do this shit on accident when trying to be funny. i took several artificially manufactured material sports balls to the face in middle school gym that usually resulted in something along the lines of "oh shit fuck i wasn't aiming there i swear to god, it was supposed to be funny/i thought you would move" from the balling party. we never did any baseball-adjacent stuff but i can't imagine it being that different, especially if the kids didn't actually realize how much more concentrated damage a dense baseball can do compared to others they may be used to.
It only happened to me once in school and it was the first time other than an MMA fight I would have a decade later where time freezes, and I'm suddenly looking up at people. Also not a baseball, but a basketball to the back of the dome wasn't fun.
I mean, they say “fast ball” by my guess would be some class activity where you throw a ball around as a sort of “whose turn is it to talk” activity. They’re super common, and because the balls are usually lighter, kids often don’t consider how much harm they can do if chucked at high speed.
Source: I have had kids do this in class, tho luckily no broken noses
They could throw anything not just a ball. I know some kids in my school would throw textbooks and binders ect. A fastball is just a type of throw not the object
the setup makes zero sense—sounds like a totally normal class wrapped in cartoon logic.
The net sum of your sense is sense. "Sense" - this action was performed manually
I just figured the number was in math class and the fastball was in gym or recess. Bullies have better-than-goldfish memories
It's possible that the time between the answer being given and the ball being thrown was not immediate. It could've happened after the class ended or maybe he had a ball in his backpack and threw it after arguing about the number? It still seems possible, but more detail is definitely needed
Is it really so unrealistic for a kid to have a small ball to play with?
Maybe in the USA is normal, considering how easy is to get a weapon in class, but in my country kids cant be playing in class, much less with something as obvious as a ball. And even if it was gym class, there are still weird things about it.
In gym class, you can’t play with a ball?
You can, but that's the thing, if you are playing with a ball, you are not in fron of other child that is speaking with the teacher, listening to their conversation and able to hit the nose despite how the kid should be looking at the teacher.
Oh. Interesting. There’s never once been a time where students are talking with the teacher just after playing a game and just before putting things away?
What makes you think this was instantaneous with talking to the teacher. This literally could have been 10 minutes later.
It’s not entirely easy to understand what they meant but this is also clearly written by someone in grade school so I’m assuming they’re a bad writer and just worded it weird and didn’t make it clear that the conversation happened at one point and sometime later that day, the kid threw the ball at him. Could have been in gym class or recess.
Not US. As long as it's not disturbing anyone the teachers most likely won't care, especially on the younger side so sth like tennis ball would probably be tolerated in class and detrimental if thrown at somebody's face
What does this even mean?
From what I understand, it doesn't really mean anything. It apparently came from a song reverence 6'7" basketball players, but most people dont' even remember that. It just started getting repeated for no particular reason.
Now kids keep saying it, even though it doesn't really mean anything.
EDIT: After further comments, it seems that there are 5 million stories behind what the song is actually referencing so no one seems to know where the song got it. So we are back to it really meaning nothing as far as anyone but the song writer is concerned.
It also seems to come partially from when you’re talking about amounts with the way the hand motions are-
Like “I’ve got 2-3 apples” or “I have like, 6-7 more chapters to read” xd the hand motions would be used for that
I heard it came from an interview too-
I guess we will never really know. I'll update my first post though.
(could be wrong but) when i looked into it i was taken to a song where the 67 referred to a police code, 10-67, which notifies officers to investigate a death report. so its a little mature for kids to be babbling about all the time
It comes from the song Doot Doot 6-7 by Skrilla
When I looked it up, it said it came from the heighty of many basketball players.
Maybe it's one of those cases where there's a million stories of where it came from and none of them are true.
Kids don't understand it in that context though, so it's not really that serious. Kids are drawn to find dumb things funny. The adults need to cope to be honest.
Why can’t people understand that it has no meaning and that’s the point? It doesn’t come from anywhere or anything. Just 6-7.
Because humans are pattern-seekers. We don't like it unless everything has a clear reason and meaning.
This is true, but I feel like, “we just want to confuse people/get them to ask what it means” is enough of an explanation.
Okay, kids observed older generations have funny numbers and they want their own, so they picked something people say often. Makes sense to me.
It comes from a song adlib and that is confirmed.
It was semi-popularized (at least popularized enough to reach the patient 0 ice cream cut kid) through sports edits of basketball players who were 6’7”.
The song itself became common in edits because of one player who was 6’7” and was a fan of the song and would quote the adlib with the hand motion.
Most kids only know the video of the 2 kids saying 6’7”, but it still has a bit of meaning and was made popular by that video.
As far as im aware it’s supposed to be so unfunny it’s funny again. But hey I could be completely wrong I don’t really keep up with today’s brainrot.
I think that's pretty much all humour for Gen Z and Gen Alpha. Intentionally cringe stuff wrapped in 8 layers of irony.
I used to be with it. Then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me.
67 is a popular meme at the moment, especially amongst kids
This isn't just possible, it's not even surprising it happened
What schools are y'all going to to say this is believable because I've never seen anything even close to this and I literally just graduated
If you just graduated you're 18. This sounds like something that would happen in a class of 12 year olds so why would you have seen that?
did you graduate from a private chool or some shit in my school (not even the us) there have been things i would consider more absurd
I've went to public school in the us my whole life, I've seen fights, but never over something like this. People exaggerate the whole "brain rot" thing significantly, almost nobody is actually "brainrotted." It's just humor.
If you can't find the brain rot kid, maybe you're the brain rot kid.../s
I think this is a fallacy. just because it didn't happen to you and you didn't experience it doesn't make it unlikely and doesn't mean others who had different experiences are "blowing it out of proportion". you can't use your own anecdotal experiences as a basis for such claims.
You just graduated, which means you still have very little life experience. You are still in the stage where you believe your own experiences are everyone else’s. In time, you will find how faulty that logic is and why people can believe this happened. I graduated over 20 years ago and I could see this happening in any year of school.
Knowing kids now, it’s definitely possible
No this actually just definitely didnt happen
I'm ngl this literally didn't happen
I'm sorry I hate the devil's advocacy in the sub.
The kids can't possibly be THAT stupid.
This is really only plausible if the child is in elementary school. Around 2-4th grade and I doubt a 7 year old is on reddit talking about 67.
Just think about it. A teacher says "someone give me a two digit number!" (Plausible) Somone says a different number(plausible) somone is upset they didn't say 67( plausible) that person is so upset and outraged they stand up from their seat walk over to the other kid and punches them right in the face because they didn't say 67? They punched them so hard they had to go to the nurse?
A 12-18 year old did that?
That's what you are choosing to believe?
Come on. Most likely the person shouted "you should've said 67" and everyone agreed and started saying 67 until the teacher told them to shut the fuck up.
You're telling me back in the day in math class if people didn't say "21!" They'd get punched. Is that how cut throat y'all's version of brain rot was?
And when you read the story it doesn't make sense. It's either a punch or a ball. A ball doesn't make sense because a gym/ pe teacher is not asking for numbers. And even if they were dividing into teams 35 is not an even number and it's too big. This doesn't make sense. And in math class only a punch would make sense, but oop said ball.
I think the older generation is annoyed by the gen alpha jokes they don't get and are trying to make this into a super huge thing. Don't get me wrong brain rot is rampant amongst gen alpha and is kinda a problem, but 67 is just the new 21.
I have kids in 8th and 10th grade, and I could believe this happened in a middle school
ETA I don't know where you are getting the punching, it says he threw a fastball. I would agree that walking over and getting punched is unrealistic (or incredibly poor classroom management) but that's not what it said.
It’s weird that I initially read it as a face punching, too.
i have a cpu in my pencil case, i dont doubt that the oop's classmate has a ball in their bag
21?
what's nine plus ten
19, I don’t understand. Is there a meme of someone mis-adding 9 and 10?
oh yeah sorry, it's this old vine
it got insanely popular back in the day just because the way the kid says 21 is funny and for grade-schoolers it it got to the point where you could say 21 for any reason and it'd be found funny, not unlike 67 rn
here's a silly absurdist riff on the joke from more recent years that i liked
Are you good dude? Like, I wouldn't be surprised if this happened at my school and I'm a senior in high school. The newest generation of freshman are just that stupid. You must have been home schooled because man, you're pretty dumb.
I doubt you're in highschool you're probably 40.
I just graduated this year. Maybe everyone has become completely and utterly stupid in the last 6 months but I don't think so.
I'm guessing they also punch people for breathing wrong at your "highschool"
Dumb for not believing something that's poorly written online. Alr.
Lol "Everyone around me can't be stupid, because I'm a part of that group, and I'M definitely not stupid."
This has been a growing issue for years, you may well be part of that group that you think doesn't exist.
You literally said like half of it was plausible, so it wasn't poorly written.. yeah, and tell me how you aren't dumb again? And you graduating? You're funny
Do you know what plausible means? It means something is possible.
I went to the store. I bought a cupcake. I paid in ones. I played some music in my car. Then a dinosaur came down from the sky and told me I am the chosen one.
In the passage above you can see how 4/5 of the sentences are plausible (possible). That's over half. The last one is not plausible(possible). The story is not true.
A sentence or a statement can have plausible(possible) parts and be completely a lie.
Something that is poorly written can be plausible(possible). The writing style does not affect the validity of a passage. However the content affects the validity. Me saying the writing was poor was an observation.
The same way a sentence that is true can have a lie. And a lie can have a bit of truth.
These are the people graduating next year. The education system is really failing.
The education system really did fail if this is the type of person who graduated.
I really feel bad for you. Do you not understand how something can have aspects of truth but be objectively false.
Do you seriously lack critical thinking skills? It's ok. At least you're still in school.
Oh, I do have those, I just like rage baiting people, I believe its real because, you know. Im still in school and see it for my own eyes but I don't have to prove it to someone who doesn't believe me. So, for fun I like to rage bait people who will never believe me and don't want to be proven wrong.
I know you're rage baiting, but at least commit to the bit.
Honestly I think I'm wrong. You actually might be in highschool. A lot of y'all can't rage bait well because #1 it's very obvious #2 you don't actually want anyone to believe you're stupid so you back track last second.
This was really fun and easy. I laughed ty.
I mean you say its obvious but you resorted to insulting them and their thinking so I think it really wasn't that obvious to you.
Dude its not that deep you dont gotta write a novel about it
Unfortunately I use my brain more often than not so it's hard for me to stop writing extra long paragraphs.
Everyone always thinks I'm taking everything oh so personally, but I just write a lot. Idk when more words = I care more. That's not even true more words =I have more things to say. I was just breaking it down so if my comment was seen someone would see how ridiculous this story is.
Look already this comment is super long. I just can't help myself. If you start thinking more too you'll also start writing more.
It could've happened yes but i don't think it did
no it isnt the fuck
I don’t get the connection between choosing 35 (why did he have to choose a number? And was it publicly announced?) and then getting a fastball thrown at you. What is going on here
This actually doesn’t make sense tho. Why would the teacher ask the student for a 2 digit number but then choose a number on his own? Or did the friend say 35 and a different kid threw the ball at the friend for not saying 67? Cuz this reads that the teacher was the one that got hit, which makes no sense given the course of events.
Genuine question- What is making kids nowadays and the newer generations act like this?? I know a lot of it is due to electronics, social media, iffy parenting, and other things like that, but even talking to people around my age (21) feels like there’s such a social gap anymore. I’ll compliment another girl sweater and she’ll look at me like I just committed a murder! Anyways, not to rant just am really curious as to why this has been happening!
It's not bro, ts is actually fake. No one over the age of 12 would do this.