As of October 12 2025, there has been an outbreak of schools banning the ‘6-7’ gesture.

This is a craze started by a rap song called “Doot Doot,” by Skrilla. In the lyrics, the numerals six and seven are used to refer to someone or something as “so-so” or mediocre.

The song went viral on TikTok, making the term widespread as of 2024.   It is also said to be associated with basketball, LaMelo Ball’s height of 6 ‘7.

Another basis is the numbers *67 is used for blocking one’s caller ID in Canada and the United States.

Besides that, it has been coined as a nonsensical meme and conjoining random gestures.

Although it is unknown if any of these is the actual meaning.

Several schools have made it a rule that it is no longer allowed during school hours.

This appears to have mostly taken place in elementary and middle schools.

For the most part, it has not yet become school policy but rather classroom rules made by educators. This is a prevention of class disruption and an effort to keep students attentive.

In other schools, teachers have resorted to rules such as shouting it in class earns a student a sixty-seven-word essay on the meaning of the slang ‘6-7’ and, as repeated, a zero is added at the end of six-seven.

Teachers have also begun using it as a way to get students’ attention by either clapping and saying six or counting from 1 and letting the students say the rest.

Whether any schools actually plan to implement a ban remains to be seen. So far, it has just been in-class solutions to keep it from causing distraction.