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Skibidi Toilet
Screenshot of the thumbnail to the first short in the series (this head's model is from the video game Half-Life 2).
Produced byAlexey Gerasimov
Release date7 February 2023–present

Skibidi Toilet is a series of viral YouTube Shorts uploaded on the DaFuq!?Boom! channel on YouTube. The series depicts a war between the Skibidi Toilets — disembodied heads inside moving toilets which can be killed by being flushed down — and a faction of people with hardware for heads, such as cameras, loudspeakers, or televisions. Skibidi Toilet is produced by Georgian animator Alexey Gerasimov using Source Filmmaker. The first short was posted on 7 February 2023.

Skibidi Toilet features bizarre visuals with a nonsensical nature and relatively short running length, and became viral several months after its debut. It quickly accumulated millions of views, becoming a meme on both YouTube and TikTok. According to Tubefilter, "DaFuq!?Boom!" was the most viewed YouTube channel during June 2023.

Plot and characteristics

The series documents a conflict between human-headed toilets – the titular "Skibidi Toilets" – and humans with cameras, speakers and televisions for heads. A remix of the songs "Give It to Me" by Timbaland and "Dom Dom Yes Yes" by Biser King makes its appearance in every episode as the theme song of the Skibidi Toilets.

Game Rant said the series lacked a coherent plot until episode 3, but began to expand on the lore starting from episode 10.

Background and production

Skibidi Toilet was created by Alexey Gerasimov, better known as "DaFuq!?Boom!" and "Blugray", an animator on YouTube. Since 2014, he has been learning animation on his own without formal education. He lives in the country of Georgia. His channel has produced a few prior viral hits, such as when his video I'M AT DIP accumulated over 45 million views.

Every episode is produced using Source Filmmaker, a Valve-published 3D computer graphics software. The creator has said he uses this software because "it allows me to work easier and faster with assets that I need doing animation, direction, writing, and editing myself." The music prominently featured in the series was popularized due to a TikTok dance video posted by the user @yasincengiz38, which was also an internet meme before the series release.

The creator of Skibidi Toilet cites TikTok user Paryss Bryanne's adaptation of this meme as inspiration for his series, in which Bryanne moves in a jerky fashion with quick cuts. Some assets are taken from video games Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source, and Garry's Mod.

Reception and influence

The magazine Dazed said that Skibidi Toilet is "frenetic, unpredictable, funny and at times genuinely unsettling". According to Distractify, the channel is popular with a younger viewer base. Many sources highlighted a viral tweet, in which a user @AnimeSerbia called the series Generation Alpha's Slender Man.

According to Tubefilter rankings, by the end of April 2023, "DaFuq!?Boom!" entered the fifty most viewed YouTube channels in the United States, at 33rd place. Editor Sam Gutelle remarked that animators "used to struggle with the demands of the YouTube algorithm; now it’s possible to get millions of views with a bunch of pixelated toilets." By June, the channel had achieved a milestone of five billion views, making it most the viewed YouTube channel in the US during that month. Gutelle noted that previously, the channel existed largely under the radar, except for a few "animation diehards in the meme community".

Trend specialist Phil Ranta explained that the serialization of the series made it so that "people had a reason to come back". They also explained the series' "genuine" feel and just plain luck boosted its popularity. Skibidi Toilet has sparked many fans to create and post fanworks on TikTok.

Characters

There are 4 main races in this series namely - Skibidi Toilet, Camera Man, Speaker Man and TV Man.

Skibidi Toilet

In Episode 1, a human head emerged from a dirty toilet known as Skibidi Toilet. In Episode 2, 3 Skibidi Urinals were shown among which 1 was a femal urinal. But the concept of Skibidi Urinnals was most probably discontinued. The main Skibidi Toilets currently are - GMan and Scientist Skibidi Toilet. Also Glitch Skibidi Toilet (First appeared in Episode 29) was one of the most important Toilet as it could infect others. Due to it, Titan Speaker Man was infected. In Episode 63, Plunger Camera Man came back in the series riding on Glitch Skibidi Toilet.

GMan

GMan Toilet first appeared in Episode 7 with the powers to shoot lasers with his eyes; in later episodes he was upgraded. It was the most powerful known Skibidi Toilet before Episode 60 with the appearance of the Upgraded Scientist Skibidi Toilet.

Scientist Skibidi Toilet

It has most probably appeared for the first time in Episode 12. It is the reason behind the upgrades of Skibidi Toilet and now it has upgraded itself with large body and Titan TV man's large speakers.

Camera Man

They were the first entity from the alliance in the series. They first fought with a Skibidi Toilet in Episode 7. They have the power to shoot bullets from the spotlight camera attached to their head. They can target their enemies and hit them. The Titan Camera Man was the first Titan (very large characters with much more firepower)from the alliance, it first appeared in Episode 18. He was heavily damaged in Episode 20 and he came back with upgrades in Episode 50

Speaker Man

They were the second entity from the alliance in the series. They were seen for the first time in Episode 24. Titan Speaker Man, one of the most powerful character in the series, was first seen in Episode 26. It was infected by a Glitch Skibidi Toilet in Episode 32 and it returned in Episode 57 (part 2). In Episode 63, we saw a Black Assasin Speaker Man much about it is not known because it's the most as of yet.

TV Man

They are the most recent entity as of Episode 63. They first appeared in Episode 39. They are the most powerful species if we only consider the normal entities of other races and not the specialized ones. There is also TV woman, with the ability to detach its head and it appeared for the first time in Episode 49. Titan TV Man first appeared in Episode 41. In Episode 44 we saw his speakers upgrade. A big speaker attached to his chest with two small speakers attached to his shoulders. In Episode 47, G Man Toilet, A flying Skibidi Toilet with a cutter and Infected Titan Speaker Man attacked Titan TV Man, defeating him. Titan TV Man is still repairing (as of Episode 63)

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