Skibidi Toilet is a serious of SFM shorts that became popular with young kids. Think in the same vein as the weird flash videos or early SFM videos that were popular with young kids 10-15 years ago. "Skibidi" doesn't mean anything and is just taken from that.
It's literally just gibberish and jump scares.
I watched way the fuck too many of those shorts, trying to figure out what the appeal was.
I guess the appeal is the same as any dumb youthful "OMG SO RANDOM" humor.
CHARLIE THE UNICORN OMG SO RANDOM!!!!
So, yeah, it's just as fucking dumb as the dumb shit we laughed at when we were kids.
BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER...
EDIT: u/lukmly013 adds some important context to the source of the word "Skibidi."
Cat dog and Renn and Stimpy too. Silly comedy for the sake of being silly.
It does mean something.
The skibidi toilet "creatures" are considered the antagonists, and the word is associated with their traits.
- creepy
- gross
- scary
- weird
Its an insult to and pretty much interchangeably with "creepy" with a splash of "cringe"
Often paired with "ohio" which means "bland" / " boring" / "mid"
Example:
"Yo he got that skibidi Ohio rizz"
Translation:
"This dude has zero game, in fact he is creepy and weird and has negative charisma, people find him repulsive and boring"
Damn, kids these days. Like, I knew that I shouldn't disregard slang as meaningless just because I don't understand it, but I'm realising how despite knowing this, I've probably been subconsciously dismissive. TIL, thank you.
I've never seen that association with my friends who use it. It's always been more of a meme word, a meaningless adjective you throw into a sentence to make it "funnier."
Honestly the entire thing evolved quickly from silly random humor to a full-blown story with recognizable characters and drama.
So the Skibidi Toilets seem to operate on being able to hurt "people" via jump-scares. These "people" I refer to could be called "Tech Heads" (don't know if there is some skibidi-subculture which has consistent names for factions or characters).
The Tech Heads come in various flavors and keep upgrading their Heads to fight off the Skibidi Toilets.
The battles increasingly rely on both sides absurdly upgrading their arsenals in over-the-top and sometimes downright Cronenberg-esque ways. It makes heavy, heavy use of Half Life 2 GMod assets that are heavily modified to be these freaky creations.
The main endings of the shorts are either Skibidi's winning and serving you up a jump-scare before a blackscreen, or the various Tech Heads winning and giving each other a thumbs up gesture. Over time, even these concepts are lampooned or used as misdirects.
Further, there has honestly been clever use of the different type of Tech Heads for storytelling and meta-storytelling devices.
It ends up in an all-out war that includes deep subterfuge on both sides. I won't say it's not creative, it's actually incredibly creative and well-put-together.
I just wasn't able to find the humor in it, personally.
I watched an episode or two, and it's basically the current generation's version of GMod Idiot Box.
Skibidi Toilet is this generation's War and Peace
Gen X guy here. This is literally the first time I have come across the word “skibidi”. I simultaneously wish I could help you, and glad I don’t know what that asinine word means.
Gen X really are just boomers in waiting.
Try living in the shadow of boomers with no support. We were helpless (okokok; also apathetic). I for one am glad to have the backup of the following generations. Even if each successive generation is more inscrutable to me than the previous.
Waiting for those fuckers to retire? You bet.
Wanna be more confused by Skibidi? Check out the video for Skibidi by Little Big
I came to write that: it's a masterpiece, and Little Big has more!
While others did explain skibidi toilet, I think it would be good to step back a little to what popularised the... sound? "skibidi".
Some Turkish dude used this part of a song in his belly dance video. I am talking about a bouncy belly. This is a repost of that: https://youtube.com/shorts/3-RlRmYshCQ
He then later posted more similar videos, becoming a meme.As for the song, this is it: https://youtu.be/0U7SBGBCoGs
"Skibidy" predates this song by a long shot. It's a common vocalization used in a lot of scat singing, so it's possibly a century old at this point.
Ha, true.
Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub
Hadn't thought about this in years but you mentioning it had my mind mainlining the song.
There was a now passed MC who was a prominent figure in 00s jungle called MC Skibadee.
Oooh neat, I'd never come across this. Important context!
My tween will try to be edgy by saying “you’re so skibidi” to siblings.
I'm a millennial who doesn't really know.
But. It seems like the duck billed platypus of zoomer humor. YouTube pays for views. And people just make million of videos. And this one happened to catch on. And it's so bizarre people show it to their friends. Hilarity ensues. 🤷
Its what the blind algorithm hath brought us.
it's not zoomer humour, it is alpha gen humour. zoomers hate it.
as a millennial i think it's very funny that gen z are confused by the next generation's memes
Every generation just finds it's humor further and further up the anus of the internet
Gen Z here. Even I have no idea
welcome to feeling old. (well. older.)
It's good marketing of a trash product.
