Is "Six Seven" Really Brain Rot?

Is "Six Seven" Really Brain Rot? The viral phrase is easy to dismiss, but its ubiquity suggests something crucial about human nature. Recently, my wife was texting with a friend who lives in Singapore. The news from the other side of the world turned out to be that kids there had discovered "six seven." On Halloween, our friend reported, a boy with a handmade "six seven" jersey had earned applause as he made his way through her neighborhood--a place that's a long way from Sixty-seventh Street in Philadelphia, which the rapper Skrilla may have been referencing in his song "Doot Doot (6 7)," which came out last December.