69 came up (excluding accounts dedicated solely to explicit content, which in Twitter’s early days, there was a great number of.) Screengrab via JustBrittney26/Twitter
That was downright prescience because, over the next year, sports became the predominant way in which tweets with the No. If you assume those above are merely commenting on the content of the tweets, and not on the sex number, which seems likely, then the very first instance might be here. Screengrab via MissChynaGyrL/Twitter Screengrab via MissChynaGyrL/Twitter Screengrab via MissChynaGyrL/Twitter Screengrab via MissChynaGyrL/TwitterĪnd while more ’69-Nice’s cropped up, they weren’t in on the joke. The very first instance of “nice” reply was in regards to a 69 joke, so it may not count. However, as the process of manually retweeting a person’s tweet and adding a comment to it became a popular method for communicating across the site, so too did “Nice”-ing some 69 tweets. Twitter, in its earliest iterations, didn’t lend itself to responding to the sex number on your own timeline. It’s worth the current iteration on how we say/pronounce “nice” in the format most likely came about thanks to South Park, which, in an October 2006 episode, features cops replying “Nice” to a student who was reporting that another kid at South Park Elementary was having sex with an extremely attractive kindergarten teacher. In the run up to the 2008 election, tweeted that there were 69 days until the election. Oddly, if it was Barack Obama who unintentionally shone a spotlight on the meme, possibly the very first ‘69-nice’ response happened because of him.
Those tweets, however, weren’t part of the standard call-and-response we all know. Screengrab via technosailor/Twitter Screengrab via technosailor/Twitter Screengrab via technosailor/Twitter (Bob did not respond to a request for comment, nor did many others, because perhaps contacting strangers about their 69-related tweets from nine years ago is a little weird.) But through the spring and summer of 2008, several users began declaring explicitly that 69 was nice. Very true Bob, although it’s not positive if Bob is explicitly referring to the sex number or a golf score. Then there’s this tweet, which is perhaps the most forward and direct example of 69 being nice.Ħ9 would be nice- Bob Tanner May 25, 2008 Screengrab via bburton/Twitter Screengrab via bburton/Twitter It certainly wasn’t then. There were other instances of 69 being nice, but more often than not, the tweets were referencing the weather or prices. “I’m quite astonished that replying nice to 69 has become a trend,” he said. He had no idea he accidentally started a meme. Of course, the easy answer is that at our core, we are forever giggling teenagers who can’t stop thinking about doing it, but like a lot of Twitter’s ingrained habits, the “nice” reflex developed organically as the site grew and formed its own language and methods of communication.įilip Bunkens was the first person to ever tweet “69” and “nice” together, when he congratulated himself about his new follower count in September 2007. Screengrab via Christopher Hayes/Twitterīut where did this meme come from? How did “nice” become Twitter’s go to reply to any tweet that features “69”-no matter the context. Even famous journalists couldn’t help themselves. It came so naturally and easily to Twitter. Screengrab via BarackObama/TwitterĮight hundred people replied, and they all replied the same way. Regardless of how the people of Twitter actually felt about Garland, they all rallied around the president using, from the highest office in the land, a sex number in a big yellow font. That’s because, after the GOP refused to have a confirmation hearing for the judge, Barack Obama made a pointed note of how the American people felt about the matter. The nomination of Merrick Garland was a divisive time in our nation’s history, but it became a unifying moment for Twitter.
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