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Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

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Re: Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

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Post by Modified3019 »

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!

In case you didn’t know, Filmcow’s Charlie the Unicorn and Llama’s with Hats series are finished now.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bKd_2vqPrmU

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XPj_1XzPCj4

Re: Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

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Post by Balinares »

edd25 wrote: post #67

Initially I was irked by Skibidi Toilet and considered it to be peak of brainrot content. Though at one party we decided to do an ironic Skibidi marathon and I genuinely had a fun time watching the shorts, it was quite fun trying to piece together was was going on in the series, we even started to root for some of the characters. When GMod/TF2 videos were just starting to appear on YT, I recall watching/making a lot…

I find Skibidi Toilet fascinating because it's one of those things that looks like random garbage but is probably anything but. It takes a special kind of skill to achieve that. Just the right comedic timing, exaggeration of facial animations, instant narrative cues that make immediate sense even if the story itself is nonsense, all distilled into a few seconds of video. I gotta respect that. It's garbage, but it's high quality garbage, and I tip my hat off to the author.

Re: Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

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Post by [deleted] »

marcuskane2 wrote: post #73
Cthulhu_ wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

> Especially South Park I think desensitized the millennial generation Desensitized some people, who understood and appreciated the irony, absurdity and inversion of norms. It hyper-sensitized others, who often doubled-down on the type of authoritarian political correctness that South Park satirized. There is clearly a huge segment of the millennial generation who don't agree with the South Park "make jokes about eve…

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Re: Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

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Post by jandrese »

rufius wrote: post #22

Well my trip to Costco make infinitely more sense. I saw these 3 foot tall dolls for sale of the camera head characters. They were titled “skibidi toilet titans” but I was only familiar with the song mashups, not the web series. Kids are always gonna love stuff that pisses off their parents. It’s just part of parenting and being a kid. My parents hated my love for the weird shows on Adult Swim like metalocalypse and…

I don't think it is even so much about angering their parents as just having something they know that their parents don't.

Skibidi Toilet is pretty old hat at this point. It is well off of the radar. Current trends include stuff like 6-7.

Re: Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

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Post by dusted »

aj_hackman wrote: post #125
DocTomoe wrote: post #109

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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…

> All major religions are essentially meme-conglomerates. This is quite the reduction, akin to claiming that my wife and I got married because human beings are a pair-bonding species - it checks out on the surface, but discards an incredible breadth and depth of human experience. I do not close my eyes at night and talk to a loose collection of ideas cobbled together by a bunch of random people attempting to outline…

> This is quite the reduction, ...

Thank you, that spawned this notion in my head, I wonder why. It’s funny, I think, how quickly people dismiss the subjective experience of a crackhead having an ecstatic conversation with God or the universe — yet insist that the depth of their own experience of love, religion, or meditation can’t possibly be reduced to neurotransmitters.

Re: Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

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Post by jandrese »

Devasta wrote: post #20

Its completely destroying the minds of the youth. Back when I was a kid, we had proper narrative videos online like badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger MUSHROOM MUSHROOM...

You're the man now, dog.

Re: Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

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Post by righthand »

Der_Einzige wrote: post #128
righthand wrote: post #124

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Squidbillies is more clever than you’ll ever understand. Definitely not “slop”. From your comment it is very clear you don’t enjoy irreverent humor or animation really. Not everyone has $200 million to blow on Tron: Ares level animation.

I liked Moral Oral, and the PJs, Venture Brothers, and even really whacky stuff they did like Xavier: Renegade Angel. I could even sort of get stuff like Superjail. But Squidbillies is a bridge too far. So was home movies.

Some of those are aren’t Adult Swim originals fyi.

Re: Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

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Post by dangus »

sedawkgrep wrote: post #101
dangus wrote: post #8

This is one of the most wild over-analysis pieces I’ve ever read in my life, to the point where I’m wondering if this paper itself is an elaborate prank.

I tend to view the world through a psychoanalytical lens. I'm always curious about the unconscious drives of individuals and the collective, and how we interpret and interact with the world we live in. I thought the article was interesting and thoughtful. It did a marvelous job of making sense of something that, at first blush, is seemingly senseless, and I do not think for a moment the paper is a prank. Quite the co…

I think in doing all this analysis it prescribes too much to the art.

One interview with the artist could essentially throw a giant wrench into the ideas presented here. If the author comes out and says “I was 12 and thought that toilets were funny” massive paragraphs of this paper become pointless.

> Gen Alpha may be "born into video games", but they have also been born into a disintegrating climate system, post-9/11 politics (such as the global austerity crisis, perpetual war, and the rise of right-wing populism), surveillance capitalism, and pandemic risk—much of which can be read in the landscapes and metaphors of Skibidi Toilet, serving to problematise notions of the ‘natural’ and the limits of the human in the context of climate catastrophe and technological transformation.

I’m sorry, this is a load of horse shit. This is someone with an advanced literature/journalism degree getting stoned and writing a paper. I don’t think any of this has to do with a series of toilet animations.

Sometimes it’s as simple as “little kids think that absurd toilet humor is funny.”

Re: Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

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Post by lioeters »

dusted wrote: post #136
aj_hackman wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> All major religions are essentially meme-conglomerates. This is quite the reduction, akin to claiming that my wife and I got married because human beings are a pair-bonding species - it checks out on the surface, but discards an incredible breadth and depth of human experience. I do not close my eyes at night and talk to a loose collection of ideas cobbled together by a bunch of random people attempting to outline…

> This is quite the reduction, ... Thank you, that spawned this notion in my head, I wonder why. It’s funny, I think, how quickly people dismiss the subjective experience of a crackhead having an ecstatic conversation with God or the universe — yet insist that the depth of their own experience of love, religion, or meditation can’t possibly be reduced to neurotransmitters.

> love, religion, or meditation can’t possibly be reduced to neurotransmitters

You can reduce all of human experience to chemistry, but you'd be missing most of the meaning, understanding, and wisdom of it. (If there is any, in the case of the cracked visionary.)

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