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Skibidi Toilet
Thumbnail of the first short in the series
Produced by	Alexey Gerasimov
Release date	February 2023

Skibidi Toilet is a series of YouTube Shorts posted on the YouTube channel DaFuq!?Boom!. The first short was posted in February 2023. The series depicts a war between the Skibidi Toilets—disembodied heads inside moving toilets who can be killed by being flushed down—and a faction of people with hardware such as cameras for heads. Skibidi Toilet is produced by a Georgian animator using Source Filmmaker.

Skibidi Toilet features bizarre visuals, nonsensical nature, short length, and toilet humour and became viral several months after its debut. It quickly accumalated millions of views, becoming an Internet meme on both YouTube. According to Tubefilter, "DaFuq!?Boom!" was the most viewed YouTube channel in the United States in June 2023.

Plot

The series documents the conflict between human-headed toilets, called Skibidi Toilets and CCTV-headed people, called Cameramen. A remix of the songs Give It To Me by Timbaland and Dom Dom Yes Yes by Biser King makes its appearance in every episode as the theme song of the Skibidi Toilets. The events unfold from the perspective of a Cameraman, who ends up getting caught or killed by the Skibidi Toilets in the end of almost every episode. Both parties use increasingly powerful weapons to their conflicts.

In later episodes, other types of humanoids makes an appearance, where they have TV or speakers for their heads. Some characters are much larger than their normal counterparts.

Production

Every episode is produced using Source Filmmaker, a Valve-published 3D computer graphics software. The creator has said he uses this software because “it allows me to work easier and faster with assets that I need doing animation, direction, writing, and editing myself.” According to Dazed magazine, the series took inspiration from the TikTok dance videos by user @yasincengiz38, which often plays the same music. This content is a pre-existing internet meme. Some assets are taken from games like Half Life 2.

Popularity

According to Tubefilter rankings, by the end of April 2023, "DaFuq!?Boom!" entered the fifty most viewed YouTube channels in the United States, at 33rd place. Editor Sam Gutelle remarked that animators "used to struggle with the demands of the YouTube algorithm; now it’s possible to get millions of views with a bunch of pixelated toilets." By June, the channel had achieved a milestone of five million views, making it most viewed YouTube channel in US during that month. It also garnered 2.9 billion views and saw a 9% weekly increase in viewership. Gutelle noted that until the recent months, the channel existed largely under the radar, except for a few "animation diehards in the meme community". Distractify has said the channel is popular with younger viewer base.

Trend specialist Phil Ranta explained that the serialization of the series made it so that "people had a reason to come back". They also explained the series' "genuine" feel and just plain luck boosted its popularity.

Reception

The magazine Dazed said that Skidibi Toilet is "frenetic, unpredictable, funny and at times genuinely unsettling". Many sources highlighted a viral tweet, in which a user @AnimeSerbia called the series a Gen Z's slenderman.

DaFuq!?Boom!

"Alexey Gerasimov", better known as "DaFuq!?Boom!" and "Blugray", is an animator on YouTube. Since 2014, he had been learning animation on his own for 9 years without formal classes. He lives in Georgia. His channel have seen few prior viralities, such as when his short I’M AT DIP was gained over 45 million views.

Influence

Skidibi Toilet have sparked many fans to create and post fanworks on Tiktok. Influencer Apps LLC published a spin-off mobile game named "Skibidi War - Toilets Attack", which Distractify describes as a "traditional, top-down shooter". A Steam version of the game is planned to be published by Hand Up Digital LLC.

References

Curtis, Charles (2023-07-24). "What are Skibidi toilets? Explaining the bizarre YouTube video series that's taking over the internet". For The Win. USA Today. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
Winslow, Levi (2023-07-20). "YouTube's New Trend Features Creepy Singing Toilet-Creatures". Kotaku. Retrieved 2023-07-31.
^ Greig, James (2023-07-12). "Skibidi Toilet: the terrifying new creatures haunting the internet". Dazed. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
Gutelle, Sam (May 1, 2023). "Top 50 Most Viewed U.S. YouTube Channels • Week Of 04/30/2023". Tubefilter. Retrieved June 23, 2023.
Gutelle, Sam (June 13, 2023). "Top 50 Most Viewed U.S. YouTube Channels • Week Of 06/11/2023". Tubefilter. Retrieved June 23, 2023.
Gutelle, Sam (July 4, 2023). "Top 100 Most Viewed U.S. YouTube Channels • June 2023". Tubefilter. Retrieved June 23, 2023.
Gutelle, Sam (June 26, 2023). "Top 50 Most Viewed U.S. YouTube Channels • Week Of 06/25/2023". Tubefilter. Retrieved July 23, 2023.
^ Bitner, Jon (2023-07-26). "This Talking Head in a Toilet Is Taking the Internet by Storm — Everything to Know About the Skibidi Toilet Trend". Distractify. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
^ Lang, Jamie (2023-07-03). "How The Animation Channel DaFuq!?Boom! Became Youtube's Biggest Hit This Summer". Cartoon Brew. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
^ Schroeder, Audra (2023-07-20). "What is 'Skibidi Toilet,' the creepy YouTube series going viral on TikTok?". The Daily Dot. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
Johnson, Stephen (2023-07-21). "The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Is Skibidi Toilet?". Lifehacker. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
"Skibidi Battle - Toilets Attack on Steam". store.steampowered.com. Retrieved 2023-08-10.

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