Around them a lot for my job, I want to understand what they’re getting at lol.
I tried to watch a skibidi toilet video and I was just lost. Kids these days seem very postmodern haha
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The “skibidi” part of Skibidi Toilet has a really funny history.
It started out as [Bloody Mary](https://youtu.be/VFwmKL5OL-Q?si=Gqhgbnunmb4L1eJA) by Lady Gaga. Listen to 00:32 in particular.
Then TikTok users started sharing a [sped-up (cough nightcore cough) version](https://youtu.be/MsXdUtlDVhk?si=Tq0z9GDSZRsXV3R-) that got pretty popular.
It then went viral with user “ThatOneGuyOfficial” dancing to a clip of a [Phonk remix of the sped-up song](https://youtube.com/shorts/Sdk_Y8Bbh_0?si=L701j2ep7QPK7TTQ) that became mis-interpreted as the “Skibidi Bop”
Edit: thanks to u/[Strayl1ght](https://www.reddit.com/user/Strayl1ght/) and u/[ProfitNo1844](https://www.reddit.com/user/ProfitNo1844/) for additional info:
The phonk song from “ThatOneGuyOffical”‘s video remixed Bloody Mary with the Bulgarian song [Biser King – Dom Dom Yes Yes](https://youtu.be/BxFhFwQNQKM?si=mXRVN8Sd772A1PIZ&t=67), which was popularized by the Turkish influencer [Yasin Cengiz](https://www.tiktok.com/@yasincengiz38/video/7287131000843390214?lang=en).
Then user “DaFuqBoom” made an [animated short using Half-Life 2 assets](https://youtube.com/shorts/tzD9OxAHtzU?si=ctwisuxAOG3-_Vwo) featuring a further remixed clip of the song and a singing head coming out of a toilet and thus “Skibidi Toilet” was born.
“DaFuqBoom” capitalized on their success and currently has 71 episodes of “Skibidi Toilet” that features a continuous storyline and gets anywhere between 15-30 million views per video.
“Skibidi” and “Skibidi Toilet” have since gone on to be added to the Gen-Alpha internet sub-culture as slang terms for “bad”, “creepy”, or “evil”(sometimes in a good way, think of the term “bad” from the 80’s meaning “cool and rebellious”) referring to the singing toilet head monsters being portrayed as villains in “DaFuqBoom”’s videos, but in the post-modern (post-irony, neo-dada, etc.) fashion it’s also usually meaningless.
Basically the modern language equivalent of this: [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp))
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