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I know I am old, I was born in 1986 so excuse me for not relating to this 6-7 joke, but it just seems like something obnoxious that older people don't understand (obviously me being one of those), my question is did we do things like that at that age?? What was the cringiest 2001-2005 trend? Because I remember reading Stephen King books and listening to Eminem and that is what pissed off older people I don't remember things like that.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

I see current adults reacting to kids' shenanigans exactly the same way as adults did when I was a kid, so I guess we were.

 

[GrayChild]

From my experience (and some really unpleasant memories from elementary school), we were quite obnoxious. But not nearly as much.

If there's something that late-gen Z and the Alphas have much more than we millenials did, is their hyperinflated ego. Whatever shenanigans we used to do, we were at least self-aware enough to know we shouldn't do it. Right now, kids are literally being taught they can do anything without any sort of repercussion.

 

[DeceptiveAlarm]

My 13 yr old is pretty annoying anymore. I spend time with him though. I was born in 83 and my parents never even knew where I was. So I doubt I annoyed them much.

 

[StueyDuck]

We were, but our teenage stupidity was limited to school and our towns, we use to quote beerfest all the time in high-school and had our own "memes" but it was literally contained to a small group of lads tryna piss off the teachers

This only seems worse because its an interconnected stupidity network link and progressing via social media.

With that comes the chase for fame so the cringey retard shit only gets amplified and pushed further because fame and social media is an addiction. In the modern era things will alway escalate...

I also am very indifferent to the 6-7 thing... like its really nothing. I remember adults in South Africa tryna ban Pokémon because it was the devils work and saying things like if you put a Pikachu card under your pillow at night the devil will steal your soul

All in all the 6-7 thing seems to be trying really hard to get a response but most people are like... "oh, okay"

 

[Burning Blade]

I'm 45 and per my 13 year old, the whole
6-7 thing has already fallen out of their zeitgeist and is lame. I still say rad though so who am I to judge.

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

We were probably equally confusing or even disappointing to our parents' generation, but probably in different ways than kids today appear to us.

A good example is we played a ton of video games and read much less books.

 

[The Cockatrice]

I laughed and mocked a bald teenager when I was a kid and he chased me down a field, caught me and beat me and then I went home and cried to my parents as if it was his fault. I used to climb trees and fall down and break my head, again not my fault. And so many other stupid shit. Yes, we were all retarded as kids.

 

[Nocty]

I laughed and mocked a bald teenager when I was a kid and he chased me down a field, caught me and beat me and then I went home and cried to my parents as if it was his fault. I used to climb trees and fall down and break my head, again not my fault. And so many other stupid shit. Yes, we were all retarded as kids.

times have changed so much. I remember when I was 10 chilling with friends in the neighbourhood on our bmx bikes, the local bullies would whoop our asses almost every weekend. I remember one time I was with two friends and we found the ringleader of the local bully gang alone with his uncle at the park, We waited around until his uncle wasnt watching and beat the shit out of that nigga, his uncle came back and slapped the shit out if him for getting his ass kicked by 10 year olds we got our revenge and it tasted so sweet. A few weeeks later him and his bigger buddies caught us again by the park and beat the black out of my ass. I remember my dad calling me a bitch for letting it happen so often.

imagine that shit nowadays, you cant give or catch a good ass whooping to build character without some lefty bedwetter calling the cops or making a social media crashout post,

 

[Sticks]

6-7?

 

[The Cockatrice]

times have changed so much. I remember when I was 10 chilling with friends in the neighbourhood on our bmx bikes, the local bullies would whoop our asses almost every weekend. I remember one time I was with two friends and we found the ringleader of the local bully gang alone with his uncle at the park, We waited around until his uncle wasnt watching and beat the shit out of that nigga, his uncle came back and slapped the shit out if him for getting his ass kicked by 10 year olds we got our revenge and it tasted so sweet. A few weeeks later him and his bigger buddies caught us again by the park and beat the black out of my ass. I remember my dad calling me a bitch for letting it happen so often.

imagine that shit nowadays, you cant give or catch a good ass whooping to build character without some lefty bedwetter calling the cops or making a social media crashout post,

This is so true. My parents used to put the fucking key around my neck and leave my ass out until 12 am with friends or on my own outside. Nowadays people my age cuddle their kids to insane degrees. Its the reason why we can't make fun of anything anymore. No more thick skin, just a bunch of pussies.

 

[HRK69]

Eminem

Love it when the GOAT gets a mention

 

[lughnasadh123]

Unequivocally fuck yes. And the more something pisses off an older gen, the more those obnoxious shits will latch onto to it. That's the whole point. Plus the value it provides as a bonding experience while being a group. A sense of feeling like you belong to something even if you think that "thing" is stupid. Every gen is going to go through this.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

I guarantee you we were. Or at least I was at 10 years old. I got disciplined at an overnight school camping event because while it was time for everyone to go to sleep, I was joking that the word "flock" was the F-word.

Yelling out "What the flock!" "Flock off" "I don't give a flock", etc. "I cAn'T gEt iN tRoUbLe CuZ iT's NoT tHe ReAl WoRd."

The chaperone was pissed and made me sleep in a room separate from all the other kids.

 

[IntentionalPun]

No we were not. People keep bringing up "69" as if it compares. I'm sure I heard that number thousands of times in school and maybe a handful of times one kid said "60 ninnne" and got a giggle out of kids.

Compare that to rooms full of screaming children. The internet has turned youth into drones looking for the next viral meme to run into the ground.

 

[DKehoe]

Yeah.

 

[The Pleasure]

We need to ban gentle parenting and bring back the belt. Y'all know what this is. Sucka.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

I doubt it, yes kids are obnoxious in all eras, but not equally so.
A generation of glued to the screen ipad babies that have no social skills and are terrible at reading and writing shorten everything to text speak because they live in texting, but text speak doesn't work in real life so they just sound fully retarded; this is where the dumb shit like "6-7" comes from because it sure looks funny if you type it like "6,7! ".

 

[dem]

The 67 thing is stupid but.. harmless.

What's insane is how they will literally scrolls TikTok for hours on end. Their brains are mush.

 

[Hookshot]

The 67 thing is stupid but.. harmless.

What's insane is how they will literally scrolls TikTok for hours on end. Their brains are mush.

Saw a bunch of young relatives this Christmas, they've gone from kids playing puzzles or with cars on the floor while chatting to each other and adults, to zombies silently watching screens. It's scary how much an iPad can zone them out.

 

[poppabk]

6,7 is literally just two numbers.
I remember when I was in school - kids making fun of one of the teachers for having to go to the bathroom all the time and calling him Mr Dump and stuff like that. He was dying of bowel cancer.

 

[Lambogenie]

Saw a bunch of young relatives this Christmas, they've gone from kids playing puzzles or with cars on the floor while chatting to each other and adults, to zombies silently watching screens. It's scary how much an iPad can zone them out.

Similar here.

Addiction, autism in some cases, and sometimes lazy parenting too.

If they were all on the iPad playing together, Scrabble, Fortnite, even separate stuff but engaging with their family, that's one thing, but this is total, solo experience. Silence. No engagement with each other. The weird thing is, if they were given an old school thing like a SNES and take turns to play they'd be okay with it.

This 67 thing is dumb, 69 at least made universal sense to us perverts. 67... they can't even align on a meaning.

 

[dem]

I took my kids phone away during the family Christmas. He was miserable because his older cousins wouldn't get off theirs.

 

[L*][*N*K]

Saw a bunch of young relatives this Christmas, they've gone from kids playing puzzles or with cars on the floor while chatting to each other and adults, to zombies silently watching screens. It's scary how much an iPad can zone them out.

I was watching my cousins play Roblox the other day and I am still genuinely shocked, I have been playing games since the 80s and I have pretty much played every genre and I still can't figure out what the hell was that game, idk if it is all like that but I shit you not they were lining up to a dummy and when they got to it they would attack the dummy then go back to the end of the line, for hours!!!!!

 

[DKehoe]

I was watching my cousins play Roblox the other day and I am still genuinely shocked, I have been playing games since the 80s and I have pretty much played every genre and I still can't figure out what the hell was that game, idk if it is all like that but I shit you not they were lining up to a dummy and when they got to it they would attack the dummy then go back to the end of the line, for hours!!!!!

Similarly to you, Roblox was a "huh, guess I'm old now" moment for me. I've watched it being played and I just don't get the appeal and don't even really understand what's going on. It's so bizarre that it's as big as it is when, to me, it looks so shit and there are so many other games out there. But I'm sure when I was a kid there were adults looking at what I was playing and feeling baffled by it.

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

No.

 

[reinking]

I know I am old, I was born in 1986

Yes, you dorks were obnoxious when you were kids, but it was localized. A lot of you just got dropped off at the mall or other public places to annoy other people instead of annoying your parents.

I know what my group (late 70's) was too. Let the kids be kids and do kid things.

 

[Wildebeest]

Millennials totally not obnoxious at all unless the topic involves any sort of politics, pop culture, talking about how they are "totally here" for something, how something is "hecking valid as fuck", or complaining about how uniquely hard their lives are.

 

[AJUMP23]

The youth are always annoying once you aren't one anymore. My kids say the dumbest stuff.