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Anybody got any thoughts? I'm planning a watch of the entire series and a deep dive into the offshoots.

EDIT: This one is not the original producer's page, but it's laid out a lot more easy to follow. Moves from 1 through to the end.

https://youtu.be/OTpxOC8_Qco

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

well, A+ for getting kids into Tears for Fears. - Gen Xer

edit: thank you for your front-line reporting 🤣

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago

I made my son a skibidi toilet cake for his birthday this year .I get a good laugh out of it !

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I'm curious, but not curious enough to watch it myself. If you have highlights or a summary later, I'd read it lol

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

Good breakdown.

Ive explained it to people as "On the grand scheme of entertainment, its insane and not very good. On the scale of "indie films made on a $0 budget" its better than it has any right to be and for what it is, which is an animated science fiction war movie with no dialogue made in an ex soviet country on a pc by one guy its a fucking masterpiece. "

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Same. In 20 years Gen A won’t be interested in whatever 12 year olds are watching; why should I be different?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Zoomers are addicted to a Half Life 2/Garry's mod meme?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Not zoomers, gen alpha is.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

When is this getting added to the criterion collection

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So this is what my coworker was talking about? Wtf.