'Six seven': Priest goes viral with video of Pope Leo XIV making the trend; look

A video of Pope Leo XIV doing the "six seven" trend went viral on social media this Saturday (16). The content, published by the Genoese priest Don Roberto Fiscer, has already accumulated more than 4.9 million views on TikTok.
In the recording, the Genoese priest Don Roberto Fiscer appears alongside children and, together with them, asks Pope Leo XIV to reproduce with his hands the gesture associated with the meme - a request that the pontiff responds to immediately, to the delight of the little ones (see below).
Priest goes viral with video of Pope Leo "It's all real. There's nothing AI in this video," he said.
The video was taken during a religious ceremony that took place this Saturday in the Hall of Blessings, located in the Vatican's Apostolic Palace. According to information from the Holy See, around a thousand faithful from the Archdiocese of Genoa were at the event.
'Tiktoker' priest
Don Roberto Fiscer is an Italian Catholic priest from Genoa who became known on social media for his relaxed videos and evangelization work on TikTok and Instagram. He has hundreds of thousands of followers and is often called "priest tiktoker" or "priest influencer" by the Italian press.
Before becoming a priest, Fiscer worked as a DJ and entertainer on cruise ships. He was ordained a priest in 2006 and began mixing music, humor and internet language in projects linked to the Catholic Church.
In recent years, he has gained prominence for transforming trends and popular music into religious content and for using social networks to dialogue with young people. In 2026, he left the parish where he worked in Genoa to take up a position linked to the diocese's digital communications
What is the '6 7' trend?
This game, popular worldwide among young people, is of the "brain rot" type ("rotten brain", in English) - superficial, addictive and meaningless content, such as absurd memes, short videos with repetitive sequences and phrases that are inexplicably "funny".
The main point to understand is that... there is nothing to understand. The origin of "6-7", for example, is a mixture of random facts:
a drill song (genre from the south of Chicago) called "Doot Doot", by rapper Skrilla, in which he repeats "six seven" in the chorus in a very striking and rhythmic way;
the height of NBA basketball player LaMelo Ball, exactly 6 feet and 7 inches tall (1.98 m);
an American boy who appeared in a video about basketball in which he looks at the camera, makes a gesture with his hands and shouts loudly: "six-seven!". He became the official face of the meme.

Source: G1