Skibidi toilet is a weird thing to me, because it just feels like something that would've been popular 15 years ago.

Also the internet throws a lot of our traditional understandings of culture out the window. A 20 year old and a 40 year old might not have had as much reason to hang out before (although things like sports and hobbies did pull age groups together some) but now they're all playing against each other in the new Call of Duty, sharing memes about Among Us, laughing about how they're too old for the Skibidi Toilet and arguing on Twitter.com

There's lots of injokes and references and slang that I don't understand not because of my age, but because I don't watch Streamer X or play Y game or have Z streaming service. And yet plenty of people younger, my age, and older will get those references because they do. Meanwhile the opposite is true, I've played some online games from my childhood with kids who weren't even alive when the game came out! It was kinda shocking really.

Yeah, this is all just similar to the memes we millennials experienced during the 2000s and the early days of YouTube. There's nothing alien about it. The fact that stuff like Source Filmmaker and Garry's Mod is still alive and well is pretty cool.

Yeah I was like “I have no idea what skibidi toilet is Gen alpha weird as fuck” for a while then I actually saw one and I was like “Oh it’s just source filmmaker bullshit like when I was in middle school”

The most confusing part about Skibidi Toilet is that it's using stock HL2 era assets. I thought that had been thoroughly mined for content 15+ years ago.

Yeah exactly, it reminds me of old youtube poops.

I would argue that there's clear difference between the video you showed and Skibidi Toilet. For one, your video is from a time on Youtube when "random images/clips are shown while unfitting music is being played in the background" was a genre. So it has more in common with this or this than modern Youtube videos or even YTP. Seriously, "something something while I played unfitting music" was its own genre way back in the day. The only real difference is your video uses the Source engine, which survives in modern Youtube.

Skibidi Toilet and all that body horror shit like Aaron Animations are also far too dystopian for early Youtube. Going by tone alone, I would peg the video as a post-2016 creation, which wasn't when the first Skibidi Toilet video dropped but was the time when the channel started and had this video, their most famous video pre-Skibidi Toilet. And it's pretty obvious the dystopian feeling comes from living and reacting to a post-Great Recession, post-2016, post-2020, "post"-Covid world.

I think a lot of this kind of shit you're seeing now is meant to be tongue and cheek. I see a lot, myself included, of millennials joking about being "old" now, see the resurgent popularity of that one Simpsons clip that like five people in this very thread have been posting. It seems mostly good natured, the 20 somethings are turning 30 now and they don't feel hip anymore and are having a laugh about it.

Millennials watched Kitty0706 and want to pretend they just don’t understand the youth https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dzMq5_thk4o&pp=ygUJa2l0dHkwNzA2

Early 30s and watched the first one for first time yesterday. Reminded me very much of the kind of stuff I'd like when I was younger. Then I skimmed through to some middle episodes and saw it had some kind of story and a really weird surrealist feel that I was really digging. I doubt I'll ever sit down and watch all of it (can only take so much of that song) but I can absolutely see the appeal. I love surrealist stuff.

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

• yewtu.be
• inv.zzls.xyz
• yt.artemislena.eu
• piped.video