Vice President JD Vance recently took to social media and spoke about the viral “6-7” trend, saying the numbers should be banned. He recalled an incident at church when a similar page number came up during the readings. Vance revealed that his son couldn’t hold back and repeatedly referenced the trending number.
JD Vance says he wants to ban ‘6-7’ forever
Vance took to X (formerly Twitter) to share a recent instance of his son, where he referenced the trending meme of six-seven during the church readings. He wrote, “Yesterday at church the Bible readings started on page 66-67 of the missal, and my 5-year-old went absolutely nuts repeating ‘six seven’ like 10 times.” Expressing his wish that he wants to ban these numbers, he added, “And now I think we need to make this narrow exception to the First Amendment and ban these numbers forever.”
In a follow-up post, Vance expressed confusion around the 6-7 meme, revealing that the old trends used to have an origin story, but this one came out of nowhere. “Where did this even come from? I don’t understand it. When we were kids all of our viral trends at least had an origin story,” he further wrote.
While these trending numbers are often referred to in brainrot and meme contexts, they do have an origin story. ’67” actually originated from a song named “Doot Doot (6 7)” by Skrilla. The number has been repeated several times in his music and has now been widely used in several contexts on social media. These numbers also allude to NBA star LaMelo Ball’s height, which is 6 ft and 7 inches.
Dictionary.com recently also picked 67 as their 2025 word of the year. Steve Johnson, director of lexicography for the Dictionary Media Group at IXL Learning, told CBS News, “Something that you would have thought would have gone away, it just kept on growing larger and larger, snowballing into kind of like a cultural phenomenon.”
