The 67 Kid

Origin: the AAU clip

By spring 2025 the 6-7 sound from Skrilla’s “Doot Doot (6 7)” was already saturating TikTok, but it was still just audio — a disembodied “six seven” pasted over other people’s videos. What it lacked was a face. It got one on March 31, 2025, when basketball creator Cam Wilder posted a YouTube video titled “MY OVERPOWERED AAU TEAM HAS FINALLY RETURNED!” Around the 13:24 mark, a blond kid in a grey hoodie leans into the camera and yells, with total conviction, “Ay, 6-7!”

The moment was clipped out and reposted on April 1, 2025, and it detonated. The delivery was perfect brainrot fuel: unprompted, deadly serious, and instantly repeatable.

Who is the 67 Kid?

The kid is Maverick Trevillian, a youth AAU basketball player who quickly turned the accidental fame into a bit — adopting the TikTok handle @mav67kid67 and playing up the persona rather than hiding from it. His look became part of the joke: a fluffy blond “ice cream” haircut and a grey Essentials (Fear of God) hoodie, the unofficial uniform of a certain kind of middle-school basketball kid.

Why he became the mascot

A sound can trend, but a character is what makes a meme sticky. Maverick gave “6-7” three things it needed:

• A face — an actual person to point at when someone asks “what is 6-7?”
• A gesture and a look — the lean-in and the yell that thousands of kids started imitating in mirrors and hallways.
• A stereotype — he became the avatar of the “Mason 67” archetype: the white Gen Z/Gen Alpha boy who answers every question with “six seven.” Adults trying to understand the trend increasingly searched for “the 67 kid” specifically, and his clip became the default explainer.

Notable examples

• Duets and stitches recreating the “Ay, 6-7” lean-in, shot for shot.
• “POV: explaining the 67 kid to your teacher” and “my little brother won’t stop doing the 67 kid” skits.
• His own @mav67kid67 posts, where he leans fully into being the meme rather than fighting it.
• Classroom and gym-hall videos filmed by teachers and coaches documenting how thoroughly the phrase had taken over.

Legacy: the year “67” went mainstream

The clip did not stay a niche basketball joke. Through the second half of 2025, “six seven” became the single most inescapable piece of playground slang in the United States — chanted in classrooms, banned by some teachers, and picked apart in explainer pieces by Rolling Stone and mainstream news outlets trying to translate it for parents. The phrase’s defining feature is that it means almost nothing: it is deployed as a shrug, a punchline, or pure noise, and the joke is partly that adults keep demanding a definition.

The trend peaked with institutional recognition. On October 29, 2025, Dictionary.com named “67” its Word of the Year, noting the term appeared in digital media roughly six times more often in October 2025 alone than in all of 2024, and describing it as classic brainrot slang — “purposefully nonsensical and all about being in on the absurdity.” Coverage of the announcement traced the phrase back to Skrilla’s track, with a persistent secondary theory linking it to NBA guard LaMelo Ball, who is listed at 6 feet 7 inches.

The 67 Kid is the reason a sound became a person. Maverick’s two seconds of footage turned an abstract audio trend into something with a face, a haircut, and a pose to copy — the ingredient that carried “6-7” from a TikTok sound to a Word of the Year.

For the full story of the sound, the song, and the gesture, read the main 6-7 meme breakdown.