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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 hatradiowigwam »

aftbit wrote: post #60
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…

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!

JG Wentworth...this guy is stuck in other people's brain's too!? I thought that was a locally aired commercial when I was younger, but apparently that earworm went nationwide!

Re: Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

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Post by the_gipsy »

DocTomoe wrote: post #90
the_gipsy wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would be more entertaining of they had the slightest clue of any of the meanings. IMO the interesting part of "memes" is the information density not in the meme "data" itself but in the collective mind.

In all fairness, as someone who never 'understood' the 'collective mind' behind skibidi toilet (and would argue there is none, he absurdity itself is the 'meme' - a term used very loosely here, considering memes of yesteryear did in fact transport messages), the Zeit critic sounds like he 'got' the cultural references pretty spot on (and he himself points out that the references themselves do not have to be understoo…

He did not get the refrences at all. Of course you don't need to understand all refrences to "get it", but he doesn't really bring anything to the table.

From what I remember, the spinning animal goes deeper, the videogame-like spinning food like items go deeper. There are so many layers to it, that is what's interesting.

Re: Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

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Post by krapp »

InspGadget4343 wrote: post #25
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...

ASDF movie, look at my horse, llamas with hats.. it truly was the peak time of brainrot

Honestly, some of the stuff Weebl did as Savlonic was pretty decent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WPj3VxDsMk

Re: Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

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Post by krapp »

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…

Skibidi toilet, whatever one thinks about it, is actually just outsider art. The real brainrot is AI generated (eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_brainrot)

Re: Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

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Post by jrm4 »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #64
jrm4 wrote: post #27

I'm most reminded of not the movies as much but -- Monty Python's Flying Circus? Same kind of ... "uh what?" vibe.

Especially the stop motion animations, they were just absurdist / surreal, not unlike skibidi toilet and italian brainrot content. If people were a bit more media savvy and less kneejerk or pearl clutching about it, they'd realize that it's nothing new. I don't actually know anyone clutching pearls about skibidi toilet, the worst is a somewhat indifferent "I don't get it". And not getting it is fine.

YUP, that's the specific bit(s) I was thinking of.

Re: Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

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Post by xdfgh1112 »

CaptainOfCoit wrote: post #40
xdfgh1112 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really good video. I don't speak German but the subtitles were fine.

Off-topic, but how do you know the subtitles are fine if you don't speak German?

I enjoyed the content of the video using the subtitles as delivered. It made sense and was informative. I doubt there were any egregious issues given the relative similarity of the two languages.

Re: Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

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Post by npteljes »

Jordan-117 wrote: post #117

It was better when it has less narrative, tbh. Just surreal unsettling videos of manic toilet-heads busting into a restaurant or rolling down the street with Gmod characters doing weird shit in the background. Last I checked, each new entry was just another boring "epic" clash between giant titans with ever-larger explosions that never fully resolve or go anywhere interesting.

Same for me. Of course, I'm much older than the target audience, so I have seen many of the tricks already. The series was entertaining for the first very episodes, but then it would have required actual storytelling talent to properly handle the universe that was created, but lacking that, the series fell flat. I still appreciate that the videos serve their purpose, entertaining millions, and that I could have also been part of it, even though for just a little.

Re: Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

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Post by npteljes »

iamleppert wrote: post #29

How is it slop? If you look closely and get over yourself for a moment, it has a powerful political message. The conflict between the Skibidi Toilets (with human heads sticking out of toilets) and the Camera/TV/Speaker-headed humans can be seen as a metaphor for how people consume and spread media. The toilets constantly repeat a hypnotic song ("Skibidi dop dop yes yes"), representing mindless media repetition and vi…

I think this is retcon. The thing started as dumb fun, and people tacked on episodes and meaning after the fact. Just pareidolia, but with symbolism instead of faces, and also the meta-game of explaining the deep meaning of things that are not that deep.
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