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@kurgerbingog
October 23, 2025 at 3:02 pm
67???
@kittyw778
October 23, 2025 at 3:04 pm
It’s a kids thing that’s gone viral on social media.
@carsonhunt4642
October 24, 2025 at 4:35 pm
Was viral because it was supposed to be funny that no one knew what it meant. Cringe and not funny at all. It already died out, and felt forced by algorithms as no one in real life ever used it or found it funny. It was a random thing a rapper said, and also is slang for getting a blumpkin, hence kids find it funny to say.
@mateosalazar5766
October 23, 2025 at 3:02 pm
67
@Pan_cak
October 23, 2025 at 3:02 pm
6 7 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@JanetteNyiva
October 23, 2025 at 3:03 pm
nooooo not ted talk😭😭😭
@kurotheindivisible1938
October 23, 2025 at 3:04 pm
It’s definitely about 6-7 people causing this
@jackyjiang615
October 26, 2025 at 3:25 am
lets keep the likes at 67 guys
@EmilyGladdenen
October 23, 2025 at 3:04 pm
Thank you for your creativity and variety of topics. Your videos always arouse interest.🙈👒🍂
@daedricdragon5976
October 23, 2025 at 3:08 pm
I can bet anything that among today’s youngsters and teenagers, those who are percieved as educated and intelligent do write worse essays; it may not be exactly and directly caused by the brainrot language they use, but it is highly correlated with it. Social media has really fried people’s brains in the attention span department. And no, I’m not a doomsayer necessarily: just a concerned person.
@riotshadow9500
October 23, 2025 at 6:35 pm
Realistically speaking, this can only be treated as true for some people. There are definitely some brain dead Kids they’re also definitely some genius kids that could do some amazing things for this world.
@damnsterfr
October 23, 2025 at 6:35 pm
Realistically speaking, this can only be treated as true for some people. There are definitely some brain dead Kids they’re also definitely some genius kids that could do some amazing things for this world.
@daedricdragon5976
October 23, 2025 at 7:01 pm
@riotshadow9500 Oh yes; it is indeed the case that stupid people, as well as smart people, have always existed. However, what I was pointing out has to do with the general level of intelligence and actual, useful education (an idea which is admittedly vague and perhaps somewhat relative) of young people on average. I agree that geniuses still exist among teenagers for sure; I’d be very surprised if they didn’t. But I worry that the average level of intelligence has been, unfortunately, decreasing over the last couple of decades in many western, developed nations: a phenomenon known as the Reverse Flynn Effect. I point this out to show that my observations are not merely a manifestation of personal bias or irrelavent anecdotes; they seem to be rather well-reflected in the results of empirical research.
At any rate, I do think that, as “old-geezer”y or “boomer”y as it may sound (I myself am 26 lol), since Gen-Z onward (my generation), and especially with Gen Alpha, we are not witnessing great things when it comes to, among other facets, verbal reasoning.
And these recent generations certainly seem to be lacking in, and having suprising difficulty (because most would not have guessed it) with, articulating their thoughts or writing them down in a proper manner, if not in the form of an essay.
@daedricdragon5976
October 23, 2025 at 7:01 pm
@damnsterfr Oh yes; it is indeed the case that stupid people, as well as smart people, have always existed. However, what I was pointing out has to do with the general level of intelligence and actual, useful education (an idea which is admittedly vague and perhaps somewhat relative) of young people on average. I agree that geniuses still exist among teenagers for sure; I’d be very surprised if they didn’t. But I worry that the average level of intelligence has been, unfortunately, decreasing over the last couple of decades in many western, developed nations: a phenomenon known as the Reverse Flynn Effect. I point this out to show that my observations are not merely a manifestation of personal bias or irrelavent anecdotes; they seem to be rather well-reflected in the results of empirical research.
At any rate, I do think that, as “old-geezer”y or “boomer”y as it may sound (I myself am 26 lol), since Gen-Z onward (my generation), and especially with Gen Alpha, we are not witnessing great things when it comes to, among other facets, verbal reasoning.
And these recent generations certainly seem to be lacking in, and having suprising difficulty (because most would not have guessed it) with, articulating their thoughts or writing them down in a proper manner, if not in the form of an essay.
@riotshadow9500
October 23, 2025 at 7:06 pm
@daedricdragon5976 I would say that overall shows a failure in the system that teaches us rather than in our own brains. Yes, we are faulting because we don’t know this information, but we don’t know this information because the people that were supposed to teach it never did heck for the longest time I wasn’t taught which world war hitler was in and I still do not know what the first one was about
@damnsterfr
October 23, 2025 at 7:06 pm
@daedricdragon5976 I would say that overall shows a failure in the system that teaches us rather than in our own brains. Yes, we are faulting because we don’t know this information, but we don’t know this information because the people that were supposed to teach it never did heck for the longest time I wasn’t taught which world war hitler was in and I still do not know what the first one was about
@Jon-bh7no
October 23, 2025 at 7:11 pm
‘Attention span’, meanwhile they are processing complex visual-motor actions and verbal communications on online games for 6 hours straight with no distraction or break. If you mean they have no interest that’s fine, but low attention span is the most moronic cop out i’ve ever heard.
@daedricdragon5976
October 23, 2025 at 7:19 pm
@riotshadow9500 I tend to agree here; for instance, although I am not from America myself (or any English-speaking or western country for that matter), I have heard a lot of bad things about the American education system, especially on how bad it’s become in recent decades.
I think that, perhaps, more so than information, teaching children and teenagers critical thinking in an effective manner is of great importance. It’s likely that schools have been declining rapidly and dangerously in this one, vital area.
I still uphold my initial claim that social media has, almost certainly, been not only of no use but rather of significant harm when it comes to what we’ve been talking about (though not all forms of social media are created equal, and definitely not in the same way or to the same extent do different kinds of social media affect us. For instance, I think YouTube is far more beneficial, or far less harmful, than Instagram or TikTok). It rewards and strengthens immediate, easy, instant gratification; it shortens our attention span and makes us less thoughtful, analytical and more shallow.
@daedricdragon5976
October 23, 2025 at 7:19 pm
@damnsterfr I tend to agree here; for instance, although I am not from America myself (or any English-speaking or western country for that matter), I have heard a lot of bad things about the American education system, especially on how bad it’s become in recent decades.
I think that, perhaps, more so than information, teaching children and teenagers critical thinking in an effective manner is of great importance. It’s likely that schools have been declining rapidly and dangerously in this one, vital area.
I still uphold my initial claim that social media has, almost certainly, been not only of no use but rather of significant harm when it comes to what we’ve been talking about (though not all forms of social media are created equal, and definitely not in the same way or to the same extent do different kinds of social media affect us. For instance, I think YouTube is far more beneficial, or far less harmful, than Instagram or TikTok). It rewards and strengthens immediate, easy, instant gratification; it shortens our attention span and makes us less thoughtful, analytical and more shallow.
@el_priet0kun373
October 23, 2025 at 3:09 pm
We no longer care about 67, 61 is the cool thing now, get with the times
@Jason20222
October 23, 2025 at 3:13 pm
“thanks for coming to my TED Talk” is about 6-7 words
@TED
October 23, 2025 at 5:53 pm
🤯
@mazelex4199
October 23, 2025 at 10:42 pm
It’s 7
@peace8627
October 25, 2025 at 1:38 pm
TED TALK…. Also 6-7 letters
@ME-xd8lu
October 23, 2025 at 5:09 pm
No…flat out no… 6-7 is a nonsensical, meaning absolutely nothing.. nothing beautiful about it
@chickenanon
October 23, 2025 at 6:31 pm
Bet the woosh is extra loud when your head is empty
@zack1stplayer
October 23, 2025 at 8:36 pm
But 6-7 DOES have meaning, and you just explained it!
6-7 is nonsensical, and that IS its meaning
6-7 is exactly the same as supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Both are nonsense, but that’s the point!
Nonsense is sense! In a sense, that is! It takes a certain sense to make sense of nonsense. Why, I’d even go as far to say you’d need 6-7 senses! To make sense of the unsensible, you need an insensible sense, a kind of supercalifragilisticexpialidocious sense! One sense that’s insensible to the non-sense of nonsense is not all the senses you need, however! It may require another unsense, a sort of sense that makes sense but is not a sense in the common sense, but is instead a part of your common sense! This extra sense is, in essence, an extrasensory sense for the extraordinary, a nonsense sense to sense beyond the ordinary meaninglessness of a word to see its full meaning. Even if not meaningful at first, nonsense can be filled with meaning that means something to someone somewhen! Give it time, maybe you’ll see the sense of my unsensible sentences, I promise it’s not insensible, just a little nonsensical. I just hope to instill a notion that cannot sensibly be explained, just sensed from so-called “nonsense” through exposure until it makes sense.
But that’s just my two cents.
@EyesOfByes
October 23, 2025 at 5:36 pm
Someone at TED social went all in
@TED
October 23, 2025 at 5:54 pm
We had the perfect talk — so we went for it 👀
@content_fanhub
October 23, 2025 at 6:06 pm
67?
@erosnemesis
October 23, 2025 at 6:18 pm
Lame…get cancelled
@BenDjinn
October 23, 2025 at 6:23 pm
AI slop. Y’all are filling the world with BS
@S0dap0pb0ttle
October 23, 2025 at 6:42 pm
I really want a longer version of this ❤
@CommanderPiglet
October 23, 2025 at 9:06 pm
Just click the link for the full talk
@friedroach
October 23, 2025 at 7:06 pm
MUSTAAAAAARRRDDD
@塞尔达玩家
October 24, 2025 at 2:15 am
I swear, if I hear 6-7 one more time😭
@buster2134
October 24, 2025 at 9:11 am
Six… Six… Seven…
@ranjithamukthar7310
October 24, 2025 at 9:43 am
67 🔥🔥
@ss.0765
October 24, 2025 at 11:50 pm
67🫳🏻🫴🏻
@christinemeili2398
October 25, 2025 at 8:28 am
Oh my goodness, he’s on TED!!