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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 CaptainOfCoit »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #52
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…

> 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…

> I think desensitized the millennial generation, to the point where there's nothing that really weirds us (well, me) out.

You know, I used to think the same way, that so many of us got desensitized that none of this newfangled stuff should really be surprising, even less appear bizarre.

Yet out in the real world, I think you, me and the others are maybe a 5% slice of all the people out there, as many people get borderline offended by "weird stuff" and doesn't seem like they got desensitized like you and me when we were younger.

Re: Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

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Post by mallowdram »

replete wrote: post #12

Is this a joke? Kids made this in the G-Mod sandbox for Half-Life 2. If it feels dystopian, it's because HL2 is set in a dystopian world. Honestly, it might literally be the toilet aspect that made this viral with 7 year olds

Resolution isn't the point, the semantic confusion is what generates clicks.

Re: Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

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.

Re: Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

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Post by dfxm12 »

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 only need to be able to hear German to know if the subtitles are OK. :)

Re: Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

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Post by cosmicgadget »

Nursie wrote: post #36
gjsman-1000 wrote: post #26

Older generations: “Skibidi Toilet? You like this trash?” Newer generations: “Modern art? Brutalism? You like this trash?” Nothing new under the sun.

Gen X - those all suck.

... Draws the cool S in sharpie.

Re: Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

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Post by edd25 »

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 of very similar videos, I'd say it was even worse and with more brainrot. Skibidi Toilet is exactly the same, except with higher production quality, and I no longer think it's a bad thing after the marathon, just more of the same.

Re: Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

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Post by thijson »

nancyminusone wrote: post #6
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…

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…

More recently it's the 6-7 meme. It feels like meaning is added after the video becomes viral.

Re: Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

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.

We're through the looking glass. Post-ironic paper taking random memes seriously?

I bet there's papers about Monty Python's animations too. Actually I don't need to bet, there's Google [0]:

> The animated interludes in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail demonstrate director and animator Terry Gilliam's interest in and use of images in the margins of Gothic manuscripts. [1]

[0] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_sdt=0%2C5&q=monthy+pyt...

[1] https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/91/article/424939/summary

Re: Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

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

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