🎬WHEN MEANING STOPS MAKING SENSE
The year is 2025, and the english language has officially tapped out.
Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year isn’t even a word. It’s a number.
“67.” Pronounced “six-seven.”
No, it doesn’t mean 67 of anything. It’s not a secret code, not a political slogan, not even a sports reference. It’s a vibe — a shrug, a smirk, a Gen Alpha inside joke that somehow climbed from TikTok comments to the official record of human communication.
Once upon a time, dictionaries preserved meaning.
Now, they just document the chaos.
🌀 THE ORIGIN STORY: FROM SONG LYRIC TO CULTURAL ANARCHY
“67” began where all modern revolutions do — on TikTok.
A forgettable song dropped mid-year with the line “I’m feelin’ like a 67 today,” and somehow, that throwaway lyric became gospel.
Kids started using it to mean “so-so,” “meh,” “mid,” or basically any state of emotional indifference.
Did you like the movie? “Eh, 67.”
How’s school? “67.”
Life? “67.”
Soon, came the hand gestures — two fingers making a six, then seven, in rapid sequence.
A whole generation built a linguistic empire out of nothing, and that’s the point.
💬 THE language OF SHRUGS
“67” isn’t just slang — it’s rebellion.
A refusal to care. A coded way to exist between extremes.
In a world that demands opinions on everything — politics, climate, pop culture, personal trauma — Gen Alpha found a word that means nothing, and in doing so, made it mean everything.
“67” is anti-earnestness.
It’s a rebellion against the outrage machine, a meme that laughs at the seriousness of adults still arguing over grammar and “proper communication.”
When words are weaponized daily, nonsense becomes sanctuary.
🧠 THE GEN ALPHA STATE OF MIND
For Gen Alpha, “67” is more than a trend — it’s a worldview.
They’ve grown up in a planet-sized group chat, fluent in irony, raised on chaos.
To them, absurdity isn’t confusing — it’s comforting.
They don’t need coherence. They crave connection.
And what connects better than a meaningless number everyone pretends to understand?
“67” isn’t lazy — it’s linguistic survival in a post-sense internet.
🧨 THE DEATH OF MEANING (AND WHY THAT’S OKAY)
Let’s face it: we’ve been heading here for years.
“OK Boomer” walked so “67” could run.
“Rizz,” “Cheugy,” “Slay” — they all tried to express identity.
“67” doesn’t even bother. It’s language distilled to pure irony.
This isn’t the death of intelligence. It’s the birth of semantic anarchy — the idea that words no longer have to carry weight to carry power.
The meaning isn’t in the definition anymore — it’s in the gesture, the shared confusion, the vibe.
🔥 THE FINAL FLEX: WHEN NONSENSE BECOMES CULTURE
The english language has officially entered its dadaist phase.
“67” proves that the internet has turned communication into performance art — where absurdity is authenticity, and chaos is cool.
It’s the linguistic version of a meme: fleeting, funny, and strangely profound in its pointlessness.
And while linguists panic and boomers roll their eyes, Gen Alpha just smirks, flashes a quick “six-seven,” and moves on.
🪞 EPILOGUE: THE WORD THAT WASN’T A WORD
So here we are.
A number is the Word of the Year.
A joke became a linguistic landmark.
And somewhere, Shakespeare just rage-quit the afterlife.
But maybe, just maybe, “67” is the most honest word we’ve had in years — because it captures the essence of our times perfectly:
not great, not terrible, just 67.
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