Millennials:>6-7 is nothing but pointless brainrot, Gen Alpha don't know how to meme blah blahAlso Millenials:>42...... is the answer.... to EVERYTHING lmao.... iykyk hehe...I know this will be a hot take on a website that worships Millennial shit but it's difficult to deny: Authors like Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett relied on nonsensical takes like 42 all the time; the only difference is that they used a *whole damn lot* more words then Gen Alpha do to carry the message across. And I think that makes a whole lotta sense considering cultural advancement has accelerated exponentially since the time those authors rose to fame; what you're seeing now is the same humor, only distilled for a modern era where life can pass you by quickly if you don't match its pace.
>>24927387I also remember when millennials would randomly say 42 and go into fits of hysterical laughter for no reason. These things are definitely the same and not a desperate reach for a false equivalency./sarcasm
>>24927395I mean... *yeah*?
You know what's funnier than 24?25!
What is 6-7?
>>24927400Strange I dont remember real life having a laugh track.
>>24927406Yeah and not every Gen Alpha is the 6-7 Kid, still BBT is a product of its time just like the 6-7 meme.>>24927405It's a meme, Millennials and even quite a few Zoomers hate it because they think it's nonsensical yet they worship "lol random" authors like Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett.
Lmfao.
I really don't care.
>>24927387Can't believe in-jokes weren't invented by Gen Alpha!
>>24927387Yes. All generational “le funny number” is gay and retarded and rebbit. >>24927400DOUBLES!
>>249274366-7 is VERY far from Reddit, trust me. It's a grassroots movement originating in Philly underground music culture and TikTok.>>24927435And yet, Alpha and younger Zoomers are the only ones getting shit for it.
>>24927445I mean... In-jokes are just by definition annoying when you're not clued in. Can just as easily imaging 2 school boys in the 80's getting in trouble for randomly laughing at 42.
>>24927387It sounds like you haven't actually read Douglas Adams. 42 is a punchline that comes after pages of setup and is not completely random.
>>24927452Read my original post.>the only difference is that they used a *whole damn lot* more words>>24927448And yet people who laughed at 42 are now calling 6-7 "brainrot".
>>2492745942 is a joke based on how computers are deep down really just advanced calculators.
I'm just going to point out 6 7s is 42
>>24927463Yeah no shit we got that... And what makes that superior to 6-7? If anything 6 times 7 IS 42 so it already has more layers than just 42.
>>24927459They're not upset about the specific content of the joke, but about being excluded from it. 6-7 kids derive joy from the very act of excluding adults. It being nonsensical just reinforces this dynamic.
>>24927482No one is excluding anyone. Even Gen Alpha and Zoomers don't really know what 6-7 means, we just enjoy it as part of the movement. I myself am younger Gen Z and I have no idea what 6-7 actually means; and it doesn't *have* to "mean" anything.
>>24927476Douglas Adams in his book does a multi-page setup involving a wonderful science fiction super computer and then in a sudden twist reminds the reader that the computer is just a computer after all. You would know of this if you had read the book instead of just being aware that it has many words.A modern equivalent of Douglas Adams's joke would be if someone believed in the wisdom of ChatGPT, asked it a vague, ill-formulated philosophical question, received an obvious AI hallucination in answer, and then expended great resources to figure out the meaning of the hallucination.
>>24927509>A modern equivalent of Douglas Adams's joke would be if someone believed in the wisdom of ChatGPT, asked it a vague, ill-formulated philosophical question, received an obvious AI hallucination in answer, and then expended great resources to figure out the meaning of the hallucination.That would be a *setting update*, but still in the vein of Millennial humor.Using TikTok has accelerated our rate of cultural evolution to something that must seem very alien to older generations; the cultural delta is exponential, and will only keep growing.6-7 doesn't *need* an obnoxious multi-page setup of how "AI bad"; it's just what it is: 6-7.
>>24927387Whats 9+10?21! It never ends does it?
>>24927516K 5!2 9!5 dot!Get some new jokes.
>>24927500But that's exactly what I'm saying. 6-7 is purely contingent/orthogonal to the social dynamic at play. you exclude them by not letting them in on the joy and laughter. On top of that, the joke is structured such that they can't join in spontaneously or earnestly. You don't just enjoy the joke but also the power this insistence on something nonsensical gives over people not initiated or willing/able to laugh along.
>>24927387i never liked douglas adams. scifi in general tends to suck ass since it's foundational works were made by retarded godless would-be eugenicists like hg wells. most scifi never managed to do anything except denigrate existence.so no i dont think 42 is funny. the meaning of life is not arbitrary. it's not one big joke. life matters and i wont play along with an affected glibness from nihilistic materialists attempting to be imaginative (impossible). zoomers are fine though, intergenerational hatred is mostly propaganda
>>24927387>douglas adams born 1952>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy published 1979This has nothing to do with Millennials
>>24927593gen Z: >Can't read
>>2492756942 became such a meme because it’s basically Atheism’s entire philosophy distilled into a single moment. Atheism and anti-Religious (particularly anti-Christian) ideas were massive with millennials, which is why they hailed Hitchhicker as a masterpiece.
>>24927615im a millenial and found it cringey from the get go. thats the whole point of my post. generations of humans arent monoliths
>>2492738742 is the computer language for ** means "Fill in the blank" or "anything you want"In the context of the story behind it, it is a funny and rather inspiring conclusion that you only get way way way after when you put your mind to it. It's really quite Kaufmanesque"6 7" seems to be just random numbers from the minds that like Smiling Friends and never understood the boomer numbers "69" (A sexual reference)>>24927615>Atheism’s entire philosophyFreedom's entire philosophy. "Whaaa. Without god there's no reason to live! There's no purpose anymore!!"Not true. The answer is "42" (anything you want to make of it)You have priest cock on the brain so bad you can't think straight.
>>24927754Wrong. The answer to life is God. You should seek God.
>>24927387>42I must have missed the boat on this one. I'm of their age but I don't get it.
>>24927436>irony in one post
>>24927767>please share my delusionShan't.
>>24927387>nonsensical takes like 4242 is the opposite of nonsensical. Read the Bible.
>>24927387>cultural advancement
>>24927409I can guarantee you most milllenials don't even know who those authors are. You live in a bubble.
>>24927387>42 is the number with which God creates the Universe in Kabbalistic traditionhttps://www.betemunah.org/fortytwo.html
>>24927387>Also Millenials:>>42...... is the answer.... to EVERYTHING lmao.... iykyk hehe...Douglas Adams was a boomer, retard.
>>24927387>Millennials:>>6-7 isThe what? 67? Some random song no one did ever listen to? >Also Millenials:>>42...... is Millenial here!42 is some random trash a retarded author wrote. I was in the theaters when the retarded hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy movie was playing.>Literally no one laughs, not even once>People walk outLike why was this author even liked?Literally no one outside of giga nerds did ever mention 42.
>>24930263>Zoomers laugh at 6 7 and skibity toilet>Millennial doesn't get it >Gen-X laugh at the sardonic adventures of a Doctor Who meets Monty Python hapless hero confused by programmer's joke about the Meaning of the Universe. (spoiler: 42=anything you want)>Millennial doesn't get it >Zoomer doesn't get it The hepatitis B shot must have fried your brain. Condolences.
>>24927387Will they write a masterpiece? Do they have a great American novelists amongst them? The internet was wasted on millennials and Gen Z. But Gen Alpha will rise like a phoenix from the ashes.
>>24927387You're right. Holy shit we were cringy >>24927435It's not an in joke if literally everybody is in>>24930356>42=anything you wantYou have to admit, this was a pretty shitty way of saying that. Picking a discrete number to represent the infinite is basically retarded.
>>24930384Programmers are shitty? What a cheerful sort you must be at parties. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTXOW_jJdKE
>>24927402now THAT'S funny
>>24927387Probably bait thread, but 42 is a Xoomer meme, millennials had 69 and 420 THOUGH
>>24930451>millennials had 69This was a sex reference since at least back in the 60s. 420 was from the 70s
>>24930460Well they're the only meme numbers I remember anyone spouting
>>24930460420 started in the 70s among a small group of friends but it didn't take off as a youth culture thing until at least the mid to late 80s.
Gen Alpha humor is a thousand times funnier than anything MiLLeniaLs could or has made
>>24930502Millennial antifa faggot liberal cucks made this
>>24930356>spoiler: 42=anything you wantNot even remotely true. It doesn't have any meaning at all. Adams just thought it would be funny if the answer were a random number and decided 42 would be a good choice.
>>24930477You wanna call it a Gen-X thing fine. I never heard it till 1999, from a Gen-Y millennial>>24930502I recently heard that "6 7" came from kids pointing out a ball player's jersey. This makes it their term and not a good start.
>>24927400They understand that it's funny because they're smarter than you. Sorry you had to find out this way anon
>>24930520Wrong. The author was getting into early computing and fit this gag in there. It wasn't random, it was 100% nerd humor.
>>24930509>Baby wants to drag politics into this>I are a proud fascist!The feds have been posing as both fascist and antifa. At the same time making it a terrorist crime to be either. Your government is certainly trying to bring you to heel. So smile. Your fascism is here.
>>24930526>The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought "42 will do" I typed it out. End of story.
>>24930539And anyway, the joke of it has nothing to do with the number itself, but the comedy of people waiting millions of years to get an answer they don't understand because they stupidly didn't think of what the question was. To ask what 42 means is to so completely miss the point that it makes me suspect you're ESL.
>>24930536I'm actually an Orthodox Trotskyist and oppose Fuhrer Trump. It was a joke, you millennial cuck.
>>24930547>you responded to my words and not my 7 layers of irony so you loseWell meme‘d zoomzoom
>They don't know that I am a genXer and an expert on this junk.
>>24930547>if it can't be done without commodities then you get new critiques or you can't beat Stalin.>if it can be done without commodities then you get export grade.
Is it just me, or do Zoomers seethe at Millennials way more than Millennials have ever cared about Zoomers?
>>24927387At least 42 is a specific reference to a quality work.
>>24930542This is the real takeaway from this thread.
>>24930356>>Gen-X laugh at the sardonic adventures of a Doctor Who meets Monty Python hapless hero confused by programmer's joke about the Meaning of the Universe. (spoiler: 42=anything you want)It was literally 1 stupid book series who only ultra nerds did read and found funny for some reason.Literally no one did like it or was obsessed over it. Try DBZ or Pokemania next time.OR even[Shivers]Harry Potter or Twilight.
