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Re: Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

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Post by xrd » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 1:57 PM UTC

DuperPower wrote: post #13

nancyminusone wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's just something dumb to pass the time. When I was a kid we had Charlie the Unicorn, Potter Puppet Pals and YouTube Poops. If you feel morally panicked by Skibidi Toilet, you are old and out of touch (which is fine). It's the same as it's always been. Edit: Well, not /just/ something dumb. Completely forgot about the associated lore some of these had, which makes them even more like Skibidi Toilet. I guess there's…

the point is that Skibidi Toilet does have a narrative, the problem is the excess of narrative not the lack

I really, really, love the comments here and my mind has been expanded.

Everyone calling out my uneducated moral panic is right.

Re: Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

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Post by ChrisGermano » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 1:57 PM UTC

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…

On a similar note my parents didn't love the [AS] shows with more narrative but always sat down to watch stuff like 12oz Mouse with me. I still enjoy that kind of loose narrative content but I really don't get a lot of stuff these days, Skibidi included.

Re: Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

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Post by ipnon » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 1:58 PM UTC

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.

“It’s certainly uncontaminated by cheese.”

Re: Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

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Post by hirvi74 » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 2:00 PM UTC

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…

> weird shows on Adult Swim like metalocalypse and squidbillies

Those masterpieces belong in the Louvre.

Re: Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

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Post by teekert » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 2:02 PM UTC

yunwal wrote: post #9

This will end up inspiring thousands of kids to learn blender

That would be nice, but I fear it will teach them prompting Sora.

Re: Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

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Post by kranke155 » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 2:03 PM UTC

yunwal wrote: post #9

This will end up inspiring thousands of kids to learn blender

They are already doing it, blender is enormously successful and only growing by the day

Re: Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

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Post by tizzy » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 2:03 PM UTC

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 a wizard Harry walked so Skibidi Toilet could run

Re: Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

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Post by thesz » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 2:04 PM UTC

fxwin wrote: post #11

German newspaper "Die Zeit" has a few videos where they get art/cultural critics to watch and comment on modern meme culture which i find quite entertaining. Here is the video about Skibidi Toilet: https://youtu.be/z-oAtxjnDlQ?si=FjpcVJxMoLv537RZ (Audio is mostly german, but the subtitles are quite accurate from what i can tell). Also recommend this one with "German Brainrot": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mJENuEN…

And the (possible) origin of Skibidi (by Little Big): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDFBTdToRmw

Re: Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

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Post by Muvasa » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 2:05 PM UTC

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?

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.

Re: Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

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Post by steve_adams_86 » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 2:05 PM UTC

citizenkeen wrote: post #21

xrd wrote: post #3

I went into Target yesterday with my daughters. There was a half wall of skibidi toilet merch. Right underneath the Mr. Beast merch. I've seen a video or two of skibidi toilet, and it looks like something a 14 year old boy would make at his first pass with blender. Is this the modern day "Adventures of Tom Sawyer", a masterpiece that no one over 19 is able to recognize? I feel like we have ai slop and then we have 14…

I’m 43. About six months ago I sat down and watched an hour of skibidi toilet. I get why it’s popular. I didn’t enjoy myself but I completely get why kids soaked in memes might love it.

I'm 39 and did the same. I found myself annoyed by the repetition and humour that brought me back to being 9 years old, but also curious about where it would progress and what the underlying story might be revealed to be, if anything. Without the grating components stemming from being an old person, I'd probably like it or see the appeal better.

The humour is practically the raw embodiment of how little kids joke and play. If you're around little kids (especially boys often), you see skibidi toilet antics erupt from time to time whether they've seen it or not. Goofy facial expression, nonsensical voices and singing, over-exaggersted comical violence, constantly escalating battles, etc.