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Uhm.. this is not how Hebrew Gematria works. The Hebrew numerals were inspired by Greek numeric system, in which letters have numeric values to be added together (you're concatenating digits instead).
While vaw has the numeric value of 6, a "vaw vaw vaw" actually results in 18 (6+6+6). What you'd expect to be 666 would be any permutation of, say "taw resh samech vaw" (e.g. "resh samech vaw taw", "resoth" "רסות", which seemingly means nothing but makes more grammatical sense to have a final taw) because they're respectively 400, 200, 60 and 6 (thus adding up to 666). Any sequence of Hebrew letters adding up to 666 would be actual Gematria...
...however, the New Testament, where the Book of Revelations pertains, wasn't even written in Hebrew, it was written in Koine Greek. What gets translated as "666" or "six hundred and sixty-six" is a direct transliteration from three Greek letters (I don't remember which are which, as I'm writing this reply mostly from my own memory) with the respective numeric values 600, 60 and 6 adding up to 666. Some argue the second Greek letter was originally written as the equivalent for 10 (and ended up unreadable due to how the papyrus suffered the effects of time), thus the so-called "number of the beast" would be 616.
Finally, virtually any moment in time could be pointed as "these are the times as prophesied in Revelations". It has long been a silly moving goalpost. As far as I know, the ones trying to bring about an apocalypse on Earth are the ones who believe in the Book of Revelations so badly they're literally tempting "god" despite the "do not tempt god" rule written somewhere in the same bible.
Source: I briefly went through a christian/evangelical religious phase back in the past due to relatives' influences.
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