Overview
- Students are shouting a call-and-response of “six” and “seven,” often with a ‘juggling’ hand gesture, a trend amplified by TikTok clips and LaMelo Ball edits.
- The chant traces to rapper Skrilla’s 2024 track “Doot Doot (6 7),” with coverage noting the phrase’s spread from U.S. classrooms to the U.K.
- Educators report disruptions and have introduced consequences such as 67-word essays, digital point deductions, and writing lines to curb outbursts.
- Some teachers are adapting the fad as a classroom cue, using a controlled “6!”/“7!” response to regain attention and reduce interruptions.
- Child psychologists say the phrase lacks fixed meaning and functions as an in-group signal for belonging, a typical short-lived social contagion in adolescence.