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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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Google trends supports your experience. According to it, interest peaked about two years ago [1] [1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
But as with a lot of trends, it takes a long time for people / organizations to catch up. Including a film or whatever; I thought the majority hype for Minecraft had passed already but they still made a film.
Over 20 years ago I saw this cable access TV show that was very absurd called Midget Master Blaster Television Spectacular. At the time it just had no context for me, and made no sense. But for every cultural movement there are always precedents like in this casae German dada movement, Russian absurdists like Daniil Kharms...
Maybe I'm too old, but... I thought Skibidi Toilet was kind-of funny 2 years ago, when it spiraled from a fun memey Gary's Mod shitpost into a full-on story, but then... it's kind of stuck there for 2 years? It's kind of same-y, when I look into the latest episode. (Yes I am not at all caught up to the lore, and I don't want to.) But hey it kind of fits Michael Bay storytelling style.
Google trends supports your experience. According to it, interest peaked about two years ago [1] [1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
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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…
> 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…
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…
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...
and my absolute favorite: Charlie the Unicorn!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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…
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.
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…
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.