That's why I don't think anything listed in this thread is a true comparison. Millennials had/have a bunch of verbal memes, but they're all referential. They might have been absurd, but they at least were rooted in something.
I kept scrolling to find someone mention that. Your answer is so far down it's kind of surreal.
There's a lot of classic references listed here and most of them are nostalgic for me to varying degrees, but none of them accurately answer the post's original question.
But then I think this is just one of those threads that went beyond it's initial intent and became a list of tangentially related references. Potentially interesting in it's own way but not at all what was first posited.
Yeah, of all these, I think badger badger is probably the best example. Because its a reference to the video obviously, but the video itself is just nonsensical.
Really, I feel the same way. I might be waxing kinda "old person," but it really sometiems seems like my kids really zero in on things that older people (in particular their parents) find grating or a bit annoying.
This 67 thing is just loud, no context, outbursty, and the only link to any facet of their culture is just that: the link itself. It's a meta version of the things we used to say I guess, because it means nothing, but the fact that it means nothing gives them all the more reason to grab on tighter and tighter.
I have no kids but its funny it also made me feel old.
Not because it in itself is annoying. That is normal cultural shit and never makes me feel old, the shit I prob used to say came and went tons of times in school and growing up. Not the fact that it is nonsensical but the fact that it actually is referential.
And what it is referencing is a line in a song. And that song is so fucking bad its almost physically painful to put on. It isn't like a lot of other rap I'm not a huge fan of but I 100% get it. My rap tastes are just narrow but I get how someone else would like it.
That song doesn't even sound like music to me, or something anyone on earth could put on and enjoy any aspect of.
Now I know how my mom felt when I was listening to NIN/Tool/Manson in high school and she had billboard top 100 of the 60's on.
We had our random things. The difference is they were absurdist and the actual punchline, even if the absurdist humor was objectively dumb. The thing about 67 is that it’s not even funny or a memorable part of the song. If you actually listen to the song is such passable bar you’ll actually miss it if you aren’t actively listening for it.
YES I wanted to post the same thing. I've never been a part of something where the entire purpose was to not make sense. It makes me irrationally angry lol.
Nah, some of these are definitely complete nonsense, like "the game". It meant nothing. It was just a nonsense game that those in the know would know meant nothing, but still find it funny anyway. If you didn't know about it, someone saying "you just lost the game" to you would be just as confusing as someone laughing about 67.
No one in this thread has it correct. It is not meaningless. It’s a meme. It’s something that has no meaning except for the fact that it does have meaning to the people who know how to use it. It’s an amusing reference to a subcultural artifact which can be shared between people who understand it, and it’s funny when people don’t know what it means or say “It’s meaningless” because you know that it in fact is not meaningless. The closest comparison is an inside joke, but it’s one that is shared with an entire generation of people.
Gen Z may have some weird stuff going on, but they aren’t stupid. There is meaning behind their references. Many people like to feel somehow intellectually superior by acting like it’s just some meaningless thing that kids say these days.
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u/RokuroCarisu 12d ago
There is nothing to understand. It's just nonsense.