# What '67' Reveals About Childhood Creativity - Atlas Obscura - Host: [atlasobscura.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/atlasobscura.com/) - Saved: December 11, 2025 (2025-12-11T13:10:46Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/e922bcb8974e/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/e922bcb8974e.json ## What Jamie wrote Interesting history on young adult meme's and the role they play. > The Opies went on, "And through these quaint ready-made formulas the ridiculousness of life is underlined, the absurdity of the adult world and their teachers proclaimed, danger and death mocked, and the curiosity of language itself is savoured." > > The ridiculousness and pointlessness of "67" is perhaps _why _it has succeeded so extravagantly as a meme, breaking out of the classroom to become Word of the Year: it perfectly encapsulates everything the Opies understood that kids need out of their private jokes. > > So is "67" a sign that screens and algorithms are "ruining childhood" with "brainrot?" Far from it--this trend actually shows that _despite _a screen-mediated culture kids are actually managing to generate new entries in the playground canon. 6 — 7. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Appears in - [WT336: Weekly Thing 336 / Culture, Retention, Transmission](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/336/), Notable ## Same host - [Encryption Lava Lamps – San Francisco, California - Atlas Obscura](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/44597d15bf35/) (atlasobscura.com, January 1, 2018) ## Saved the same week - [How HubSpot "Fixed" Retention | Brian Halligan | LinkedIn](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9fc7fc15d1f7/) (linkedin.com, December 11, 2025) - [10 Years of Let's Encrypt Certificates - Let's Encrypt](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/2b8649ff1caf/) (letsencrypt.org, December 11, 2025) - [Why We Need to Die](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/e7dac3aed30e/) (willllliam.com, December 11, 2025) - [The state of enterprise AI | OpenAI](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/78fdb3e027f5/) (openai.com, December 11, 2025) - [Meet Pebble Index 01 - External Memory For Your Brain | rePebble Blog](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/1af2697014c9/) (repebble.com, December 11, 2025) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/67-meme-childrens-lore-iona-peter-opie