this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2025
878 points (95.6% liked)

Comic Strips

23272 readers
1236 users here now

Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

Rules
  1. πŸ˜‡ Be Nice!

    • Treat others with respect and dignity. Friendly banter is okay, as long as it is mutual; keyword: friendly.
  2. 🏘️ Community Standards

    • Comics should be a full story, from start to finish, in one post.
    • Posts should be safe and enjoyable by the majority of community members, both here on lemmy.world and other instances.
    • Any comic that would qualify as raunchy, lewd, or otherwise draw unwanted attention by nosy coworkers, spouses, or family members should be tagged as NSFW.
    • Moderators have final say on what and what does not qualify as appropriate. Use common sense, and if need be, err on the side of caution.
  3. 🧬 Keep it Real

    • Comics should be made and posted by real human beans, not by automated means like bots or AI. This is not the community for that sort of thing.
  4. πŸ“½οΈ Credit Where Credit is Due

    • Comics should include the original attribution to the artist(s) involved, and be unmodified. Bonus points if you include a link back to their website. When in doubt, use a reverse image search to try to find the original version. Repeat offenders will have their posts removed, be temporarily banned from posting, or if all else fails, be permanently banned from posting.
    • Attributions include, but are not limited to, watermarks, links, or other text or imagery that artists add to their comics to use for identification purposes. If you find a comic without any such markings, it would be a good idea to see if you can find an original version. If one cannot be found, say so and ask the community for help!
  5. πŸ“‹ Post Formatting

    • Post an image, gallery, or link to a specific comic hosted on another site; e.g., the author's website.
    • Meta posts about the community should be tagged with [Meta] either at the beginning or the end of the post title.
    • When linking to a comic hosted on another site, ensure the link is to the comic itself and not just to the website; e.g.,
      βœ… Correct: https://xkcd.com/386/
      ❌ Incorrect: https://xkcd.com/
  6. πŸ“¬ Post Frequency/SPAM

    • Each user (regardless of instance) may post up to five (5 πŸ–) comics a day. This can be any combination of personal comics you have written yourself, or other author's comics. Any comics exceeding five (5 πŸ–) will be removed.
  7. πŸ΄β€β˜ οΈ Internationalization (i18n)

    • Non-English posts are welcome. Please tag the post title with the original language, and include an English translation in the body of the post; e.g.,
      SΓ­, por favor [Spanish/EspaΓ±ol]
  8. 🍿 Moderation

    • We are human, just like most everybody else on Lemmy. If you feel a moderation decision was made in error, you are welcome to reach out to anybody on the moderation team for clarification. Keep in mind that moderation decisions may be final.
    • When reporting posts and/or comments, quote which rule is being broken, and why you feel it broke the rules.
Web of Links

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
878
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by rapchee@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
 

transcript:
cat mum: what's 6 times 7?
cat boy (making faces): 6 7!!!
cat mum: hilarious, as always. but actually ...?
cat boy: 42
cat mum: 6 x 7 - 6 7 - is 42?!
cat boy: yeah ... so?
cat mum (making faces): that means 6 7 is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything!
cat boy: daddy! mommy's being weird again!
cat dad: aww, you see son, - your mommy is just a huge dork!
cat mum: history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes!

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 187 points 4 months ago (4 children)

The existence of the 6-7 meme indicates the calculations on the question are nearing completion and the Vogons are on their way

[–] Regna@lemmy.world 43 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I hope we hear their gorgeous opera before Earth is ushered away like a hill next to a planned highway…

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago

Oh freddled gruntbuggly...

[–] Echo5@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Have the dolphins left yet

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Not sure, let me ask Wonko the Sane

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] 46_and_2@lemmy.world 59 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Sorry to be pedantic, but wouldn't this be the correct line:

cat mum (making faces): that means 6 7 is the ~~answer to the~~ ultimate question of life, the universe and everything!

42 is the answer

[–] huppakee@piefed.social 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If 6x7=42 than 6x7 is also the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything. According to my math teacher at least

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Now let's prove that 7x6 is also the answer to the ultimate question.

[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 8 points 4 months ago

Sorry to also be pedantic but, mathematically speaking, 42 is equal to 6Γ—7, so they are essentially the same thing said in different terms.

STOP!!! IF WE KNOW THE QUESTION AND ANSWER THE UNIVERSE WILL RESTART AND BE EVEN WEIRDER

[–] Comrade_Spood@quokk.au 47 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (8 children)

Isn't that actually canon though? Cause the first book says the answer to the life, universe, and everything is 42, but then what is the question? And I think in the second book they answer that the question is 6x7

Edit: I was wrong, its actually 6x9. Which means Litterbox Comics only read the first book and is a poser and a fake fan. Probably only watched the movie sigh /s

In my defense of failing to remember the correct question, it has been awhile since I read the books.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 43 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

W H A T D O Y O U G E T I F Y O U M U L T I P L Y S I X B Y N I N E

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Remember, that's where they ran out of tiles. It could have been 'ninety' or 'nine minus 2' or in base-13.

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I didn't read it, but I think SPOILER ALERT that it was 6x9 and than they were like "oh I always knew something was wrong", or something like that.

Not sure though.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 42 points 4 months ago

They got that question by drawing pieces from a set of scrabble tiles IIRC, and I just realised that Douglas Adams basically predicted LLMs.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 24 points 4 months ago

Yes. And then someone pointed out that 6Γ—9 = 42 in base 13. To which DNA replied, "I may be a sorry case, but I don't write jokes in base 13."

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The reason, or at least a significant part of the reason, if not the complete reason, that Arthur derives that question in particular is because he's a result of the corruption of the calculation caused by the arrival of the B Ark of Golgafrinchams on Earth.

If Arthur had actually been a six foot tall Earth-ape descendant as described by the guide, his brain would have contained the actual answer rather than something almost but not quite totally unlike the true question.

[–] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

But then the universe would have popped out of existence and been replaced by a more complicated one.
Again.
So we got lucky there.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] lime@feddit.nu 16 points 4 months ago

the question in the book is 6Γ—9, because of course it is

[–] grue@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Earth was destroyed before it finished calculating. Of course the Question, as expressed by Arthur (who was part of said calculation), was wrong.

Never mind the issue of corrupted data from Ark B...

[–] Hope@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

6 by 9, right?

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

No, the question ends up being "what is 6x9", which they then surmise would explain why everything is all screwed up.

Corrected from 8 to 9, it's been a while since I've read it lol.

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Bronzor@lemmy.ml 33 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So long and thanks for all the fish!

[–] the_mighty_kracken@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)
load more comments (3 replies)
[–] QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 18 points 4 months ago (3 children)

42 / 2 is 21

ITS ALL CONNECTED

[–] kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 4 months ago (6 children)

OH SHIIIT!!!

~(i have no idea what 21 refers to)~

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

an infamous video of an older brother filming his younger brother

older bro: you stupid!

young bro: no i not!

old: whats 9+10?

young: 21

old: you stupid

[–] certified_expert@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That is 3x7, or 7 7 7. The divine number!

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)
load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (4 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 months ago (3 children)

67?

Is this some new Gen-Alpha-Speak that I'm too (Older-)Gen-Z to understand?

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes.

Be thankful and don't look into it any further!

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Oh no... there's a word in my native tongue that sounds similar to 67, η’ŒζŸ’

πŸ’€

That's it. That's my official headcanon definition for it. Pretty sure Gen-Alpha kids in Hong Kong are already laughing at the "67" "meme".

load more comments (5 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
[–] KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I'm out of the loop. The 42 reference I get, but the 67 reference I don't. Please release me from my suffering.

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 32 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Saying 6-7 at random times is the gen-alpha "lulz pancake waffles XD"

[–] Draegur@lemmy.zip 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] moody@lemmings.world 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Draegur@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago

1337 h4x0rz on teh internetz ROFL

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 11 points 4 months ago (5 children)

It's funny that Arthur even suggests "What's 6 times 7?" as the ultimate question. At least in the movie. It's been a while since I read the books.

[–] spiffmeister@aussie.zone 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What do you get if you multiply six by nine?

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (4 replies)
[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 10 points 4 months ago
[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

6+7=13

13!

It's everywhere!

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Oh no...

The 6 7 meme has now done three things:

  1. Not only has It has evolved it's chimera-ed with another meme (42) which is a much older meme with a lot of resilience.

  2. This chimera of the two memes is an intergenerational mix between those that grew up and read/listened/watched Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy and the Ticktok generation. This now means that this meme is no longer just something one generation "gets" it's crossed the boundary and both can now enjoy it for the coincidence.

  3. The intergenerational conversation can now go like this:

"6 7 "(gestures with hands)

"(Sigh) Yes... But do you know what's 6 x 7?"

(Uses calculator app) " ...42?"

"42! The answer to life, the universe, and everything!"

"What?"

"Look it up."

(*Searches and reads) "Oh... Woah, that's crazy."

"Yeah... Woah"

I fear that 6 7 is a meme that will now last much longer than expected.

Still, it might generate some new Douglas Adams readers, which is a good thing.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

6-7= -1

Guys it's -1!!

IT ALL TIES BACK

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Makeshift@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I knew it had relation to 42! I just got the how wrong!

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 months ago

!unexpectedfactorial@sopuli.xyz

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago

I'm sorry, I don't accept multiplication from any base other than base 13.

load more comments
view more: next β€Ί