Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

Post by mallowdram » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 4:13 PM UTC

DocTomoe wrote: post #109

mallowdram wrote: post #92

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The point is that memes replace stodgy narratives, which are dinosaurs (news, history, novels), with semantic options. You can experience this as meaningless, or in well designed memewarefare, you can sense the density and how/where it applies to the culture today and sense that it has something to add when it's archaeology.

By definition, a meme is an idea, image, phrase, or piece of behaviour that spreads through imitation—usually because it captures something funny, relatable, or sharply true about human experience. These are as old as mankind itself. All major religions are essentially meme-conglomerates. 'Music to invade Poland to' is a memetic concept, so is the dies-irae-theme in all music since the 1400s. Memes itself are 'sodgy…

Post by Scarblac » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 4:27 PM UTC

CaptainOfCoit wrote: post #55

Muvasa wrote: post #49

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You can go wrong in two axes. 1. The interpertation 2. The execution he means the second way, he didn't notice any english grammar mistakes or unnaturalness. It's like how good translators make Donald Trump sound smarter.

So if someone says "I do know German and the translations were all wrong", parent should feel free to say "Actually, I just meant the English grammar of the subtitles, not the accuracy of the subtitles itself" and you'd be just fine with that?

Post by singleshot_ » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 4:43 PM UTC

aftbit wrote: post #60

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #52

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> Kids are always gonna love stuff that pisses off their parents. Thing is, gen alpha's parents grew up with weird shit themselves, edgy stuff that pushed the boundaries of what is acceptable. MTV and Comedy Central productions for a lot of people, stuff like Beavis & Butthead, Jackass, South Park, and then the 2000's internet of Newgrounds productions. Especially South Park I think desensitized the millennial genera…

Salad Fingers! That lives rent free in my brain, near Magical Trevor and Schfifty Five, and a bunch of 90s TV ads. It's my money and I want it now!

Post by Jordan-117 » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 5:03 PM UTC

Post by lunias » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 5:14 PM UTC

asielen wrote: post #105

lunias wrote: post #19

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> There was a half wall of skibidi toilet merch Pretty crazy... My hypothesis is that it's popular because it feels more authentic and grassroots than most things being foisted upon them. It has surreal comedy and doesn't take itself seriously; both traits that are in extremely low supply in the recent / current zeitgeist. It was not designed by a committee pre-conception to appeal to the most-profitable possible aud…

> feels more authentic and grassroots than most things being foisted upon them. And then corporations squeeze any last drop of authenticity from it through merchandising it to death.