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Sir Keir Starmer’s ‘brain rot’ social media stunt in a Year 2 classroom backfired spectacularly when he got the school kids in trouble.
The prime minister tried to show he was down with the kids by joining in on the viral six-seven trend popular among ‘Generation Alpha’.
He was on a trip to Welland Academy in Peterborough alongside Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson when the bizarre moment unfolded.
Starmer was reading with a chipper young pupil when they reached the pages six and seven.
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This led both the young girl and the PM to start flailing their hands about, in a move that has become synonymous with the online trend.
Other kids then cottoned on and began waving their hands about too, while chanting ‘six-seven’.
Just when he thought the trip had gone swimmingly, the headteacher Jo Anderson told Starmer: ‘Children get into trouble for saying that at my school’.
Mortified, Starmer put his heads in his hands and said: ‘Oh do they.’
He later apologised, telling the head: ‘Sorry about that. I didn’t start it miss.’
The prime minister then uploaded a video of the visit Instagram, with the caption: ‘I think I just got myself put in detention…’
What is the six-seven trend?
The slang term ‘six-seven’ has exploded in popularity among Generation Alpha, who count as all kids born after 2010.
The phrase was even named Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year.
It might have sprung from the song ‘Doot Doot (6 7)’ by rapper Skrilla, who was referencing a 6ft 7in tall basketball player.
Skrilla sings: ‘The way that switch, I know he dyin’. six-seven. I just bipped right on the highway.’
Six-seven has now evolved to become a nonsensical expression that is funny for no reason, and because adults don’t understand it.
Gen. Alpha use it in different ways. Sometimes as a call and response, with someone shouting ‘six’ and others responding ‘seven’.
There is also a juggling hand gesture that now comes with the trend.
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