# 69 69 is the internet's favorite sex number, and online tradition dictates you reply 'nice' to any post containing it, regardless of context. The number-plus-nice pairing took hold around 2008 and became a running gag across Twitter, Reddit, and comment sections throughout the 2010s. ## Overview 69 is a slang number tied to a sex position, and online it functions as a trigger word for a one-line reply: 'nice'[1]. Whenever the digits show up in a tweet, headline, stat, jersey number, or timestamp, someone is expected to answer with that single word, no matter how serious the surrounding context is[1]. The joke works because it is context-blind. A poll result, a football play-by-play, or a presidential tweet all get the same treatment, which is most of the humor[2]. Urban Dictionary's top entry from 2003 spells out the sexual meaning of the number in blunt terms and had racked up more than 20,600 upvotes within roughly fourteen years[3]. ## How It Spread The Daily Dot's June 2017 history of the joke traced the 'nice' reply back to a 2006 South Park episode, 'Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy,' in which cops respond to news of a teacher-student incident with a flat 'Nice'[1]. That deadpan approval got welded to the number in Twitter replies from 2008 onward, including a 2009 exchange where a user replied 'nice' to Al Michaels's line about Vikings player Jared Allen wearing #69[1]. By the mid-2010s the practice was reflexive. When Barack Obama tweeted on May 13, 2016 that 69 percent of Americans wanted Senate hearings for his Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, the reply column filled with 'nice'[2]. On February 13, 2019, Donald Trump posted about a Gallup poll saying '69% of our great citizens expect their finances to improve next year, a 16 year high. Nice!' The tweet used both halves of the joke in a single post[6]. Reactions split between celebration and mourning. A Jesus Christ parody account called it Trump's best tweet ever, while reporter Ashley Feinberg tweeted 'folks i'm sorry, 69 is cancelled,' pulling more than 740 likes within about half an hour[2]. Mashable's coverage described the moment as 'effectively killing the internet's most beloved tradition'[6]. ## How to Use Using 69 is the least demanding meme on the internet. Spot the digits in any post, comment, headline, score line, or timestamp, and reply with a single word: 'nice.' No punctuation, no elaboration, no acknowledgment of the surrounding topic. The joke depends on the mismatch between the seriousness of the source post and the flatness of the reply, so straight-faced delivery is the common convention[1]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is 69? It is a slang number tied to a sex position that, online, triggers a reflexive 'nice' reply whenever it appears in a post[1]. ### Where did 69 come from? The sexual meaning traces to 1790s France and the term soixante-neuf, but the 'nice' reply pattern took hold on Twitter around the summer of 2008[1][2]. ### What does 69 mean? In this context, the number refers to the sex position, and Urban Dictionary's 2003 entry spells out that definition explicitly[3]. ### How do you use 69? Reply 'nice' to any post containing the number, regardless of the topic; the humor lives in the context-blind flatness of the reply[1]. ### Is 69 still popular? It is a classic reply-guy bit that spent the 2010s embedded in Twitter culture, though Mashable declared it 'cancelled' after Trump's February 2019 tweet used both halves of the joke together[6]. ## References 1. [https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/69-nice-meme-history/]() 2. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/69]() 3. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=69]() 4. [https://uproxx.com/music/bryan-adams-summer-of-69-meaning/]() 5. [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096928/]() 6. [https://mashable.com/article/donald-trump-69-tweet]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/69 Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library