• GiveMemes@jlai.lu
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        Hey pal, I’m also in my 20s and skibidi toilet is at least mildly entertaining.

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          It’s actually really good! It’s a classic case of things getting popular and cringe fans. Undertale is another big example of this, at least the first few years it was out. I guess Minecraft too, at times.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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      That’s the journey I went on. The phrae “skibidi toilet” started happening around me, and so I looked up what it was, and I understood it immediately. It’s SFM Youtube poop. I was there 3000 years ago when that was invented, I remember nope.avi and pootis.

      I find two things remarkable though: 1, SFM is still relevant after all these years and 2, they managed to wring a sci-fi story out of “stupid video about singing heads in toilets.”

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        2, they managed to wring a sci-fi story out of “stupid video about singing heads in toilets.”

        It’s unironically one of my favorite examples of “show don’t tell” storytelling.

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          I keep thinking of Abe Simpson’s line about “I used to be with it, then they changed what it was.” It’s not weird and scary yet, but there’s a “huh, that’s different” factor.

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        I got the fact that it’s a SFM YouTube poop after I looked it up. I get why the kids like it and they keep making more. It’s all very cozy and internet.

        What I don’t get is corpos trying to put skibidi toilet into things. I get why they’re doing, child money. But like how do you integrate something as abstract and absurd into your own IP? But like in a way that kids will still think it’s cool and not like dumb corpos trying to get on the bandwagon. Or maybe it’s not working and we’re just hearing about the attempts before they fail.

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      I find it interesting that Gmod almost touching 20 yrs and sfm still relevant to this day, there is always that guy who animates memes on sfm.

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      We’re back boys (somewhere I’ve never been and will never go)

    • rosa666parks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I played the very early single player Fortnite when I was messing around with unreal 4 back in the day. I thought “this is cool” and never played it again, and now it’s one of the biggest games in the world I never saw it coming.

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    Internet is weird for people who only stick to message board type social media like lemmy and reddit, and avoid account focused social media like tiktok, Twitter, Instagram, threads, etc.

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      One could argue that this is the weird part of the internet now since we are the minority

      We are like the BBS, IRC, and Usenet users of the late 2000s who refused to be swayed by Digg, Reddit, and (SMS only) Twitter.

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    I find it funny news. I don’t get why so much people hate it like their personality depends on it

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      It’s filled w/ MTX that preys on young people’s sense of FOMO.

      Oh, you’re talking about Skibidi Toilet? Yeah, I really don’t care one way or another about that.

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        I mean atleast recently there haven’t been a lot of new battle Royale games. I haven’t seen a new big battle Royale game in a while, at most you get shooter games having a battle Royale game mode on top of the normal game modes they have.

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        And yet we all fiended for a new reddit. Sometimes rot is good, it makes alcohol after all.

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          Rot is an essential part of our digestive process, assuming rot just means biological processes converting food from one state to a generally less appetizing state.

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    Similar target audiences right? I’m ok with this, I’m glad that kids have games to look forward to like when I was young. Just because ST isn’t for me doesn’t mean I can’t be happy for the people who will be happy with this.

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      This video from tale foundry touches on this.

      Let kids be kids, and enjoy their lore like we did when we were young. It’s just getting wierd because people can cash in on it easily.

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        It’s just getting wierd because people can cash in on it easily.

        Yep, I remember the old South Park episode about “Internet Dollars” something like 15 years old, and suddenly, people are figuring out how to do just that.

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    I, on the other hand, would like to happily inform everyone that I still don’t know what this is beyond seeing those words together, and if I play my cards right, I might never!

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      Skibidi Toilet is a series of short form videos using assets from Garry’s Mod and/or Source Film Maker. It features the camera heads (protagonists) fighting the toilet heads (antagonists). The toilets can be defeated by flushing the toilet. The series features an escalation of violence and weapons on both sides along with at least one additional faction joining.

      It’s actually pretty good. Like a lot of things the youth are into it’s their obsession with it that’s annoying moreso than the content.

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      Seems like the best strategy don’t you think? There are no real pros to pushing a pointless copyright claim and only negatives would come from doing so.

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      How is different from Crazy Frog or Billy Bass? Dumb memes turning into toys or dumb meme toys have been around for forever.

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      have you actually tried watching? I keep seeing complaints from people who never gave it a chance just because it looked weird

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        I’ve seen a number of people who I know for a fact enjoyed Salad Fingers 20 years ago just unthinkingly dunking on skibidi toilet

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        Isn’t it absurdist horror?

        These kids seem way more into horror than I’ve ever seen. I was really surprised to hear how my cousin’s kids adored a freaky one called Poppy Playtime.

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        Right the meme is well aged and starting to smell a bit funky, it’s time for the geezers to look at it. 👴

        I’ll give it a watch.

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          That’s the spirit I thought it was weird until I dated a teacher and we watched like ten episodes and I was like yeah ok it’s good.

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            I have watched Skibidi Toilet - Season 1 [FULL SCREEN] my main thoughts are “cool use of source engine”, I then watched a random one and at least it has different content so i’ll watch some more of it later.

            For me the initial clip is a bit meh, but the world building of the random episode looks interesting.

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              The lack of any dialogue kinda makes me feel like I have to pay attention otherwise I’d have no clue what’s going on.

              Yeah I initially wrote it off as absurdist source engine 2010 yup engineer videos. But there’s quite a bit more nuance than that.

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      It should be studied in film classes as a perfect example of non narrative based storytelling.

      I’m serious.