Late to the party here, but "all children around the world have suddenly started repeating the same two digit number and nobody knows why or what it means" is definitely a Doctor Who plot

[patterfloof@meow.social]

@fraggle like nobody noticed that 69 was the funny number since at least the 80s

[dermolly@toot.kif.rocks]

@fraggle This is so true and I hate myself a bit that I did not came to that conclusion myself.

[robinadams@mathstodon.xyz]

@patterfloof @fraggle There's an xkcd for that.

https://xkcd.com/3184

[patterfloof@meow.social]

@robinadams @fraggle as is tradition

[fluffy@toot.kif.rocks]

@fraggle @Gargron this

[anguadelphine@mk.absturztau.be]

@fraggle@social.coop

Torchwood 3: Children of Earth, but easy mistake to make. It was an homage of innumerable SciFi plots.

[shantara@mastodon.social]

@fraggle I think there might also be a memetic SCP built around the same idea

[arisummerland@beige.party]

@fraggle the funny thing is, now that I'm cognizant of those numbers, I'm finding them everywhere, even in decades-old media... it is definitely a case of what you put your attention on, you see more of...

[xershadowtail@chitter.xyz]

@fraggle 42, 69, or something else?

[pgbeattie@mastodonapp.uk]

@XerShadowTail @fraggle

6. ... 7. Or so my grandson randomly trots out occasionally