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Fake nonsense is nothing new, but lately it feels like everything is ersatz. This week’s crop of youth culture trends includes slang terms that no one actually uses, a holiday that no one actually celebrates, and a dating movement invented wholesale. But sprinkled among the duds is a genuine viral gem—comedian Druski going deep undercover at NASCAR. Sure, he’s faking being a white guy, but I’ve never seen anything more real.
What is a “6-7 weekend”?
I really hope this entry is the last time I write the number 6 or 7 in this column, but I can’t promise anything. The ubiquitous, largely meaningless piece of Gen A slang remains in the collection consciousness of the nation’s youth. This week, certain corners of the internet declared the weekend that just past “6-7 weekend.” Because Saturday was Sept. 6 and Sunday the 7th.
TikTok celebrated with videos like this one:
And this one, featuring the 67 hand-gesture.
Like the meaning of the phrase 6-7, how one is supposed to observe 6-7 weekend is unclear. Maybe by watching Fast & Furious 6 and Fast & Furious 7 back to back? Or listening to The Velvet Underground & Nico because it came out in 1967?
Anyway, you probably didn’t do anything for 6-7 weekend, but hope is not lost. Despite memes calling Sept. 6 and 7 a “generational” weekend, the 6th and 7th day of the month falling on the weekend happens frequently. This December will feature a 6-7 weekend, as will June 2026, February, March, and November of 2027, and May of 2028. (Please, please, please let no one remember 6-7 by then.)
(Check out my slang glossary for more Zoomer and Gen A slang.)
What does 93 mean in slang?
Young people cannot get enough of number-based slang. There’s 6-7 (damn it, I wrote about it again already), 41 (which I explained last week) and now 93.
“Why 93?” you might be asking after deeply sighing. Well, reader, “93” is a mainly online joke about 6-7 and 41. It’s an arbitrary number that doesn’t even have a rap song to back it up like 6-7 and 41. This video lays it out:
Other videos started appearing, which added an annoying way to pronounce “93.”
While there are a lot of posts tagged 93 on TikTok, it seems unlikely that it will catch on, because it’s just getting to be too dumb. As TikToker @Hoopervalley8 points out, “if every number becomes a meme, then nothing is funny anymore.”
(Dude, none of this was ever funny.)
What does “getting Shrekked” mean?
“Getting Shrekked’ is dating slang that refers to dating someone who is below your physical standard (Shrek) and then being traumatized by that person. The word was first used by TikToker jaxitodwyer, who is some kind of online relationship guru or something. Anyway, in the video, jaxitodwyer says, “A new dating term just dropped; it’s called ‘getting Shrekked’…” In another video, he pointed out the “horrible new trend” of getting Shrekked.
Dude talks about getting Shrekked a ton, but only because he made it up. “Getting Shrekked” only “dropped” from jaxitodwyer himself; there is no “trend.” No one is actually saying “Shrekked” except this dork. And it’s not even good fake slang. It describes too specific of situation for anyone to have much of a reason to ever say it, so it’s not going to catch on.
Regardless, news sources all over the globe reported on the non-story. The Hindustan Times says “‘Shrekking’ has taken over.” (taken over what?) Tyla.com calls Shrekking “a new dating trend.” Even USA Today, the paper of record in budget motels, reported “there’s a new dating trend afoot” and went on to consult with their own “dating coach” Amy Chan, who offered the following advice about the trend (that does not exist), “The term might be new, but the behavior isn’t…Plenty of people have put looks lower on the list or hoped attraction would grow over time, and that in itself isn’t a bad thing. Where it backfires is when someone assumes that just because they’re dating ‘down’ in looks, they’ll automatically be treated better.” Thanks, Amy Chan!
In unrelated news, I am internationally recognized as both a relationship expert and a dating coach, and there’s a new trend that’s taking over. It’s called “Clouding.” It’s when you only date people with a higher follower count than you have, so you can “float up” on social media. Wait, um, how about “Addamsing?” That’s when you act super-weird on a date, like one of the Addams Family, so your date will leave halfway through dinner. That dating trend is totally taking over and it’s afoot. (Does that work, USA Today?)
The sea-shanty craze is five years old
Remember when everyone started listening to sea shanties for some reason? And this song became really popular?
And people on TikTok started adding parts to it in videos like this to make it more horrible?
That started five years ago, according to the internet historians at Know Your Meme. I bring this up only because there have been internet trends that are worse than both “getting Shrekked” and “6-7” combined, and they, like all things, passed.
Viral video of the week: Druski goes to NASCAR
Comedian Druski won the internet this week with a video where he puts on whiteface to attend a NASCAR event. Check it out:
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That’s 235.6 million views in three days, just on the X post.
The video is remarkable. The make-up and wardrobe is so good—adding the farmer sunburn under the overall? Chef’s kiss. Plus Druski’s dead-on character is so believable that no one in the video seems to notice what’s was going on. Here’s what Druski looks like out of makeup, for comparison’s sake:
Everyone who saw the video responded to the video with tweets like this:
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And there wasn’t any online controversy because this video is totally great. No weird, racist white people said, “What about if I did blackface, huh???” Because everyone took the historical and cultural context into account and agreed that Druski is amazing.
