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    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.

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      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.”

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        I actually smiled and laughed when I first saw that it was a huge trend, considering all the gary’s mod and SFM stuff, especially TF2 videos, I adored myself as a teen/young adult. Made me feel less old seeing that there’s still life in the meme format.

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          It was wild watching the next generation discover Half Life. There are Youtube essayists who were born after this happened making videos about their theories as to where the Combine came from and such and on the one hand it’s kind of fun seeing their takes on it, and how sometimes they’re missing the context of other stuff that was taking place around that time, the fan communities that are no longer live on the web like PlanetHalfLife.

          It’s also weird that a lot of the Source stuff like Garrysmod and TF2 are still popular and being used to create stuff for teh youthz. When you come up with that one guy who did covers of linkin park songs and Gordon Frohman, to see that it’s still going and where it’s gone is just strange.

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      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”

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        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.

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          I think it initially started off silly, but as the story started to unfold it just got less sillier and more darker because the story didn’t need to be overtly silly.

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        Source Film Maker, 3D animation software based on source engine which was used for games like Portal and Team Fortress 2.

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      I watched an episode or two, and it’s basically the current generation’s version of GMod Idiot Box.