• OpenStars@discuss.online
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    11 months ago

    Worst of all is that I don’t even know how to find realistic reviews for things, like smartphones, anymore - all the reviewers seem to have become “influencers” and lie to your face like “people say that this happens, but I never saw it”. Bullsh!t you didn’t, when it happens to basically everyone:-(. (even if the phone manufacturer sent them a souped-up item that actually works, the influencer is still collaborating with them, knowing that that will happen)

    It is easy to cure ignorance, simply with knowledge, but how do we get around misinformation now, without spending the time to become personal experts on every tiny aspect of life these days?

    Late-stage capitalism sucks skibidi toilet :-(.

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      11 months ago

      You’re the third person I’ve heard mention skibidi toilet (my 9-year-old daughter and 12-year-old niece being the other two), and I absolutely refuse to educate myself on whatever the fuck that is.

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        11 months ago

        You should, it’s actually good, basically a perfected throwback to decade old gmod animation meme humor. The animation is simple but to the point, cleverly and clearly conveying worldbuilding details and progressing a wordless(“skibidi skibidi skibidi” doesn’t count) but coherent story across many short episodes. People assume skibidi toilet is throwaway garbage content because its target audience is children and it’s about absurdist toilet monsters but they are wrong, it is art and the person making it knows his shit.

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        11 months ago

        Don’t do it, it’s not worth it, save yourself my dude! :-P

        I hadn’t heard it myself prior to like a week ago. However, now I can never go back to the blissful state of being that comes from not knowing that absolutely worthless piece of information.

        Fwiw, it is a YouTube series of videos. Beyond that… it means literally nothing, just you either have heard of it or not. I did see that it got billions of views - but how many were bots playing it to run up the subscriber stats I have no idea:-P. Also, I remember a post talking about a bunch of highly strange new young-person-jargon words having been added to the Oxford Dictionary in 2023? Which is likely not this phrase, but somehow I conflated those two thoughts and now I can’t unstick them in my mind:-P.

        In this case though, I chose to use it anyway b/c the word toilet already conveys the requisite info, and the urban dictionary article about it is also funny in relation.

        Or maybe, just maybe, the success of the phrase “skibidi toilet” is in itself proof that we are all enslaved to end-stage capitalism, where algorithms feed us what we do NOT want to see or hear, and yet what they think will make them moar profitz? :-) :-(