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Template:Infobox meme Skibidi Toilet is a web series of YouTube videos and shorts created by animator Alexey Gerasimov and uploaded on his YouTube channel DaFuq!?Boom!. The series features a storyline about a war between toilets with human heads and humanoid characters with electronic devices for heads. Ever since the first short was posted on 8 February 2023, Skibidi Toilet has become viral as an internet meme across various social media platforms, particularly among Generation Alpha. As of December 2023, Gerasimov's channel has over 36 million subscribers and 14 billion views overall.

Plot and characteristics

The dialogue-free series depicts a conflict between singing human-headed toilets—the titular "Skibidi Toilets"—and humans with CCTV cameras, speakers, and televisions for heads. In a New York City-like setting, Skibidi Toilets, and their leader G-Man, threaten humanity. Two legions of hardware-headed humans, cameras and speakers, form an alliance against the toilets. Each legion has one human that is much larger and powerful than the rest, termed "titans". A toilet parasite infects the speaker titan, leading to casualties. Later in the series, TV-headed humans and their titan are introduced and with their help, the speaker titan is broken free from the mind control. The battle spreads to other cities, where the titans destroy what seems to be the G-man, but it turns out to be a decoy. The titans convene and defeats the mastermind behind the war, the Scientist Toilet, but again it turned out to be a decoy. The true Scientist Toilet is revealed to be hiding.

Business Insider describes the series as "an endless arms race as both the toilets and their foes stronger fighters". Mashup of the songs "Give It to Me" by Timbaland and "Dom Dom Yes Yes" by Biser King" appear in each episode as the theme of the Skibidi Toilets, and is the origin of the name Skibidi. "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears are featured in some videos as the theme of the camera-head resistance.

The show contains references to video games, such as the character G-man, whose name comes from 2004 shooter Half-Life 2. Additionally, the dances performed by the Cameramen are inspired by the popular online battle royale game Fortnite.

Background and production

Skibidi Toilet is produced by Alexey Gerasimov (born 1998), also known as "DaFuq!?Boom!" and "Blugray". Since 2014, he has been learning animation on his own without a formal education, and lives in the country of Georgia. His channel has produced a few prior viral hits, such as when his video I'M AT DIP, which features several characters from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, accumulated over 45 million views.

Every episode is produced using Source Filmmaker, a free Valve-published 3D computer graphics software, often used to create and edit clips and movies online, primarily using video game assets. 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, in which Bryanne moves in a jerky fashion with quick cuts, as inspiration for his series. Some assets are taken from video games Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source, and Garry's Mod.

Reception and influence

Skibidi Toilet's audience is predominantly the Generation Alphas, or people born in 2010 or later. While the series does not appear in YouTube Kids, an app designed for children under the age of 13, it still enjoys a massive popularity among elementary schoolers. Skibidi Toilet has sparked many fans to create and post fanworks, such as games, fanfiction, and art, as well as the Generation Alpha slang "skibidi".

The magazine Dazed characterized Skibidi Toilet as "frenetic, unpredictable, funny and at times genuinely unsettling". In The Know compared the animation to a mobile game, describing it as having "choppy movements and exaggerated facial expressions". The animation-focused website Cartoon Brew reported that Skibidi Toilet “may look rough around the edges compared to major studio fare, but there is no question that Gerasimov is a filmmaker who understands pacing, camerawork, sound design, and how to tell a story.”

Many publications highlighted a viral tweet, in which a user @AnimeSerbia called the series Generation Alpha's Slender Man. Insider claimed the series exemplified the start of a new generation gaining prominence, using the relationship between millennials and Gen Z as an example, a stance that Indy100 repeated, who commented that " will be facing the same mocking and ridicule they dished out to Millennials." News.com.au elaborated that " is a timely reminder that Gen Alpha are on the horizon".

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 the most 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 Skibidi Toilet made it so that "people had a reason to come back". The Washington Post noted the series' uniqueness in creating a narrative entirely our of short-form videos, and remarked on YouTube's ability to stay relevant as TikTok.Journalist Ryan Broderick on his newsletter Garbage Day, remarked the series leans into “weird internet aesthetics”, creating a nostalgic element. Business Insider echoed this perspective, remarking on the series' use of old video game assets.

In July 2023, several Indonesian newspapers and parental websites claimed that Skibidi Toilet had a harmful effect on very young children, dubbing it "Skibidi Toilet Syndrome" (Indonesian: Sindrom Skibidi Toilet). This term spilled into neighboring Malaysia, where one kindergarten teacher stated that the series contained an "incomprehensible storyline, promotes violence, and has creepy and grotesque visuals" unsuitable for viewing by children under 7 years old. Viral videos have surfaced where children sit inside large containers and mimick the Toilets.

See also

References

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  20. F. Pujangga, Raka (7 August 2023). "Waspada Bahaya Sindrom Skibidi Toilet Pada Anak, Segera Arahkan Ke Konten Positif" [Beware of the Dangers of Skibidi Toilet Syndrome in Children, Immediately Direct to Positive Content]. Tribun Jateng (in Indonesian). Retrieved 17 October 2023.
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