The very short article makes it pretty clear that this a was a joke. When we take these types of headlines at face value we become just as mindless as the maga crowd.

Vice President JD Vance jokingly called for instituting a “narrow exception to the First Amendment” Tuesday to prohibit Americans from uttering the numbers “six” and “seven,” referencing the viral meme that has exploded in popularity among children and teens, including Vance’s own five-year-old child.

“Yesterday at church the Bible readings started on page 66-67 of the missal, and my 5-year-old went absolutely nuts repeating ‘six seven’ like 10 times,” Vance wrote in a social media post on X. “And now I think we need to make this narrow exception to the first amendment and ban these numbers forever.”

The meme, which has baffled and confused adults for months, traces its roots to the 2025 song “Doot Doot (6 7) by rapper “Skrilla,” which had been used on highlight videos of the professional basketball player LeMelo Ball, whose height is 6’7. Clips of basketball players and young sports fans uttering the phrase “six, seven” while doing exaggerated hand gestures also accelerated the meme’s spread.

The meme’s use in schools has been so prominent among young children and teens that some have begun banning its use, a policy that Vance now appears to agree with, at least in jest.

“Where did this even come from?” Vance continued. “I don't understand it. When we were kids all of our viral trends at least had an origin story.”