Mark Consuelos and Kelly Ripa Learn What “6-7” Means On ‘Live’: “It Has No Meaning At All?”

ABCs? Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos are learning their AB-Gen Z’s!

The Live with Kelly and Mark co-hosts were schooled by some members of Gen Z on Friday’s episode, as Consuelos asked Ripa if she had “heard this new thing that kids are saying.”

“This slang? 6-7?” he added.

Ripa replied, “Oh yeah, 6-7. I don’t know what it means, but they say it.”

Consuelos then sought out a young member of the studio audience for some insight.

“Up at the very, very top there. Yes, I’m looking at you. And you’re smiling. You’re smiling,” he teased. “Do you know what 6-7 means?”

The camera made its way to a young boy in the audience, who told Consuelos and Ripa, “It’s the height of a famous person.”

Consuelos asked, “It’s the height of a famous person. But it doesn’t mean anything, right?”

The child reiterated, “It’s just a height.”

As Consuelos noted, the “6-7” trend stems from a Skrilla song, specifically “Doot Doot (6 7).” He then found some more “young people” in the audience to get intel from, as he tried out the hand gesture that accompanies the viral trend: moving your hands up and down with your palms up.

Ripa asked of the hand movement, “You keep doing this. What does this mean?”

The co-hosts asked a teenage girl in the audience to give them an example of how she would use “6-7” in a sentence.

The audience member replied, “It’s more like when the numbers are next to each other. Then, it’s like everyone recognizes it and says 6-7.”

The girl next to her pulled out her seat number as an example, adding, “If you got your number, and it says 1-6-7, you’d be like, ‘Oh, 6-7.’”

Consuelos asked, “So that’s the only time you’d use it?”

The girl cited an example from her AP Stats class, noting that her teacher “says 6-7 all the time.”

“She’ll be like, ‘Oh, it’s like 10.67%.’ And then all of us just look at each other and go like this,” she shared, moving her hands up and down.

While Consuelos said the trend “sounds like fun,” Ripa needed more of an explanation.

“But to be clear, it has no meaning at all?” she asked.

After the young audience members confirmed that it has “no meaning,” Consuelos quipped, “It means 6-7.”

Ripa returned to the article they had in front of them that launched their discussion, telling the audience, “It says it right here. ‘Basically it means nothing.’ Nothing!”

Consuelos told Ripa, “We’re old.”

But Ripa wasn’t convinced just yet of the trend’s appeal.

“Guys, it’s dumb!” she said.

Ripa clarified that the Gen Z members in the audience are “adorable” while doing the trend, and Consuelos conceded that it could be fun “if you’re in math class” or “stuck somewhere” and “the whole place” breaks out into the 6-7 move after seeing the two numbers together.

After Live EP Michael Gelman suggested “maybe some lottery numbers,” Consuelos named an instance that it could work in his own life.

“Baker Mafield from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers is number 6. And Bucky Irving from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers is 7, and when they score touchdowns, 6-7,” he shared. “Oh, I love it!”

Consuelos said he saw a post on the team’s Instagram in relation to the trend, but didn’t understand what it meant at the time. While Ripa wondered “what’s the emoji” she would use when trying to text the 6-7 hand gesture, Consuelos cited another use of it.

“Yeah, I’m from Tampa, and this means something else,” he joked.

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