1. 67 became famous after a song by Skrilla titled "Doot Doot (6-7)" released and immediately became an internet-wide meme due to its nonsensical and frivolous lyrics. The meme was further popularized after a video of a boy named Maverick Trevillian shouting 67 at a basketball game went viral.
2. Dictionary.com's 2025 word of the year is 67. No I'm not joking.
Fun Fact 1: The Cardiff Giant was actually carved out of gypsum by a man named George Hull to trick people into thinking it was a real giant. It’s basically the 19th-century version of a viral meme.
Fun Fact 2: Despite being a hoax, the giant drew thousands of visitors and even made Hull a small fortune because people paid to see it. People literally lined up to look at fake rock.
Fun Fact 1: People have been incentivizing upvotes and likes with “rewards” long before memes—Reddit and forums had “comment for X” chains in the early 2000s, basically proto-viral marketing.
Fun Fact 2: Using tiered rewards (“comment = 2 facts, comment + upvote = 3 facts”) is basically gamifying engagement. Psychologists call this operant conditioning: you’re training people to take the action you want with a little “treat.”
