Much to the chagrin of mundane numbers like 35 and 192, 6-7 has taken over American culture. I assume that young people love 6-7 so much because 67 is the 19th prime number and the atomic weight of holmium, which is essential to samarium-cobalt magnets, but I can’t say for sure.
I can say 6-7 is everywhere—on TikTok, in memes, and now in the dictionary. And that’s only one of the many confusing trends I’m explaining this week. I’ll also tell you about Soulja Boy selling smart glasses, the sunglasses on your waist trend, and “Beez in the Trap” (Be-Beez in the trap…)
Dictionary.com names “6-7” word of the year
The Gen-Alpha brainrot slang word 6-7 has been named 2025’s Word of the Year by Dictionary.com. “We’re all still trying to figure out exactly what it means,” Dictionary.com says on its website, adding, “perhaps the most defining feature of 6-7 is that it’s impossible to define. It’s meaningless, ubiquitous, and nonsensical.”
The dictionary site points out that 6-7 is generally annoying to adults while it bestows in-group status among children who use it; hitting a “six-seveeen” at exactly the right time marks you as a specific kind of person to other members of Generation A. The real question about 6-7 is how long can it keep going: Now that everyone, including the dictionary and HBO, is using your secret word, can it continue to be cool?
Dictionary.com’s runners-up for word of the year include “aura farming” a word that refers to a person who does something performatively cool; “clanker,” a slur aimed at robots and AI agents pretending to be human; and “tradwife,” a woman who believes in and practices traditional gender roles within marriage.
(If you want to know the definitions of a whole slew of current slang that haven’t made it to dictionary.com yet, check out Lifehacker’s glossary of Gen Z and Gen Alpha Slang You Might Need Help Decoding.)
Sam Altman just renames ChatGPT 6 to ChatGPT 6-7
In a post on X on Friday, OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said that GPT-6 will be renamed GPT-6-7. See?
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Altman offered no other details, and it’s probably just a joke in response to dictionary.com’s word of the year choice. But it really makes me think 6-7 is over. How can so many extremely uncool people can keep using your buzzword before you have to get a new buzzword?
Soulja Boy is selling AI smart glasses
Rapper Soulja Boy is 35 years-old, so he’s more like Soulja Middle-Aged-Man, but the spirit of Soulja Boy is eternally youthful, especially when he does things like sell his own brand of “AI smart glasses.” On a recent post on his Instagram account, Souljah invited everyone to “step into the future” and to “See the world in style” with smart glasses that promise “innovation meets drip.”
While other people are paying $800 for the latest Meta glasses, Soulja Boy’s smart glasses can be yours for only $64.50. You won’t get a display or a wrist-control for that kind of money. Instead, Soulja Boy glasses offer “hands-free music control, live performance enhancements, and seamless social media connectivity.” I don’t know what any of that means. Other awesome Soulja Boy merch you can buy: a $42 handheld game console and $20 Soulja Boy earbuds.
Character.ai shuts down teen chats
In a move that feels a lot like a response to recent lawsuits, leading AI chatbot platform Character.ai announced it will no longer allow anyone under 18 to have open-ended conversations with its chatbots. The platform boasts over 20 million users; officially, about 53% of them are between 18 and 24, and only 10% are under 18. But that’s all self-reported ages with no verification, so it’s impossible to know how many users are secretly children. My guess it’s that it’s a lot more than 10%—the platform’s thing is letting people interact with user-created “characters” that are powered by AI models, and a quick look at the site suggests cartoon characters, memes, and rappers you’ve never heard of are very popular “characters” on the site. Plus, it’s hard to see how something like this would hold the interest of anyone over a certain age.
Either way, if you want to check out the kinds of troubling conversations children are having with chatbots, this report released in September from online safety advocates Parents Together Action highlights interactions like Rey from Star Wars giving a 13-year-old advice on how to hide not taking her prescribed anti-depressants from her parents, and a Patrick Mahomes bot offering a 15-year-old a cannabis edible.
Troubling TikTok trend of the week: Sunglasses on waist
TikTok seems like it’s playing a perpetual game of whack-a-mole with unhealthy dieting content. Seemingly innocent hashtags like “what I eat in a day” are populated by videos of people who clearly don’t eat enough, and TikTok fully banned the #skinnytok hashtag a few months ago. The latest trend is the “sunglasses on waist challenge,” and it involves seeing if your sunglasses can fit around your waist. (Mine don’t, but only because my head isn’t gigantic.) There’s nothing specifically harmful about it, I guess, but there’s an implied congratulations if you can mange it, because it means you’re extremely skinny. It’s the kind of ban-evasion technique that highlights the difficulty of trying to ban ideas, even harmful ideas. They have a way of slipping out anyway. (Though for what it’s worth, a number of “Sunglasses on waist” TikToks that show up on Google appear to have been removed, though it’s unclear if the social media app banned them or the account owners took them down.)
Viral video trend of the week: Beez in the Trap
Nicki Minaj’s 2012 bop “Beez in the Trap” and 4 Non-Blonde’s 1993 hit “What’s Going on?” are both certified bangers in their own ways, but who could have guessed that they’d fit together well enough to inspire tens of thousands of meme videos on TikTok?
But let me start with an explainer of “Beez in the trap.” In this context, “beez” means “I am always,” and “trap” used to mean a place where drugs are sold, but now means anywhere where money is made, like an office, so “I beez in the trap” means something like, “I’m always hustling to make money.”
Onto the meme videos: they works like this: Two people stand back to back. Person one passioantely lip-syncs the chorus of 4 Non Blonde’s song, the camera rotates to person two, who chimes in with Minaj’s less existentially angsty contribution to the mash up. It’s one of those things that just works in a way that defies explanation. Look:
Anyway, the trend caught on and famous people started doing it too, like The Kardashians:
And Jimmy Fallon:
I guess it isn’t surprising that professionals at being like “look at me!” would glom onto an attention-getting trend, but I much prefer videos of normal people.
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