My little Gen A brother calls his friends who watch it “super brainrot”. I like to tease him by calling things skibidi sometimes because I’m finally old enough to be the one getting the eye roll for using slang incorrectly and it’s truly hilarious.
I sat through a number of episodes from the first series with my son (? Not sure, there seems to be other series now). Each episode is only a few minutes at best, usually just long enough for a single battle. It kind of reminds me of old Saturday morning cartoons like GI Joe, in that there ends up being a sort of arms race/one-upsmanship that goes on throughout the series.
The basic story is that there are these alien (?) Skibidis (the toilet-head things) that are apparently invading Earth. Earth’s only defense seems to be the appliance-people, the most numerous are the Camera-men, but there’s also Speaker-men, TV-men, and others. They’re locked in some sort of massive war with each other, though we never get a sense of how the overall war is going. The skibidis play the skibidi song (not sure the source, but it’s from somewhere), while the appliance-people play Tears for Fears “Everybody wants to rule the world”.
Episodes usually revolve around some new technology/weapon/combat unit getting revealed by one side or the other and it either overpowering or getting overpowered by something from the other side.
well, A+ for getting kids into Tears for Fears. - Gen Xer
edit: thank you for your front-line reporting 🤣
Zoomers are addicted to a Half Life 2/Garry's mod meme?
Gmod idiot box started 15yrs ago. Millenials grew up with exactly this. When I first saw skibidi, I though "holy shit is DasBooSchitt back??".
Honestly I don't hate it, it started as genuine shitposts but evolved quickly into a larger scaled war that's actually decently animated. I didn't find it funny, but I am curious to where this story goes in the future.
This was my first time watching any of this, too.
It's just the GMOD stuff the people of my/right before my generation used to do
It's even about the same level of "lol weird random"
Yup, and it's all thanks to source filmmaker. Gmod posing was awful to do well and took ages. With filmmaker, it's way easier to get great results. During gmod era you had shit like the "vagineer", since if the face is deformed it's easier to sell it. With filmmaker they can make cinematics like Valve used to
I made my son a skibidi toilet cake for his birthday this year .I get a good laugh out of it !
Wait it's an episodic show? I thought it was just a short 1 off clip. You should definitely watch it all and summarize the lore so we don't have to endure watching every episode.
Basically the skibidi toilets take over and start a war in a city, the cameramen form a resistance group to fight against the skibidi toilets. Both sides keep escalating coming up with new counters to gain the upper hand. The cameramen also team up with speakermen and the tv people in their fight against the skibidi toilets.
It started making a lot more sense to me when I realized that one of the main good guys had gotten "turned" - before that it was like, "is it one color vs. another?" It would have helped to watch them in some semblance of order:-P.
Sounds kind of cool until you watch it. I saw a few eps and I'm just happy kids still use source assets.
There's about 70 episodes 1-3 minutes each
We watched 1 through 66 recently. We will be going back for more. It's like watching someone put in their 10,000 hours one episode at a time. The art, story telling, direction, cinematography, sound etc all improve with each episode.
I'm curious, but not curious enough to watch it myself. If you have highlights or a summary later, I'd read it lol
It's done by some Millenial or GenZer animator. It's a series of videos made on Source Filmmaker that feature prominently the head of Half-Life character, Gman, amongst others, protruding out of a toilet, doing a comically animated dance to various remixes of popular songs with the special featuring of the line “Skibidi”. The remixes are all original for the videos. The extremely short videos were initially of only the toilet man dancing with fellow toilet folk, but it has evolved to follow the conflict between skibidi toilets against camera head men struggling to take over the world with increasingly ridiculous scenarios of combat and warfare that include mechas, gore and sci-fi weapons. It has no dialogue, the plot is implied via animation exclusively.
The thing went popular on the YouTube shorts algorithmic suggestions and since it has no dialogue, it features repetitive and catchy music and a bizarre and amusing subject matter with immature bodily function humor, it garnered massive attention by small children. I say that Gen alpha barely passes 10 years old right now, so we should give them a break before imposing inflexible marketing labels upon them.
I read somewhere that the animator is a 14yo kid from Russia. Can't check now tho. They also supposedly stopped monetizing it cause it brought them too much money and they wanted to avoid the issues that go with that
It shows, animation keep getting better every episode. He's obviously learning a lot from these. Also, I think most episodes are muted now as several grifter have made remixes that sound exactly as his music and copyright claimed his videos. But if he doesn't want to monetize them anymore it still sucks that someone is trying to funnel money out of a kid's work.
When is this getting added to the criterion collection
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