#no skibidi

[ilovecryoffearsm]

everyone ive ever loved is gone

[animentality]

[prokopetz]

Skibidi Toilet doesn't confuse me because like 80% of the artists I was following on Tumblr in the mid 2010s were super into objectheads, so a machinima series about an interstellar war between objectheads and the ideological opposite of objectheads is normal to me.

[socvincjpeg]

bonus

[spidwed]

every time i draw these freaks they look different 😔

[barf5]

into the pit was cool

I liked Oswald 👍

I haven’t played it cuz it’s not ported to MAC

[knoxblockz]

skibidi sigma rizzler

[devdoption]

Awww coolatta and co

[archiearchiearchiearchie]

like to kill him reblog to kill him

[gougerre]

Russian deputies being shown Skibidi toilet at the St. Petersburg legislative assembly deciding on whether or not to ban it.

[ilovecryoffearsm]

Shut the fuck up

[friedsnoww]

listen ik csm takes place in 1997 but wALK WIT ME HERE

[prokopetz]

#unfollowed #cancelled for being #proskibidi

(With reference to this post there.)

I was watching Flash animations back when it was still called Macromedia Shockwave that make Skibidi Toilet look like Blue's Clues. It's literally fine.

[sourmiiiilk]

I finally had time to play Mushroom Oasis and I could only think of this the entire time this scene played out.

[plounga]

guess what I binged

[itsbenedict]

so in an effort to be slightly less out-of-touch, i went and watched all of Skibidi Toilet the other day. (at present, the whole series is about the length of a feature film, so this wasn't too big a lift.)

what surprised me is just... how totally normal it was. like, it's not at all difficult to describe. people big it up as this incomprehensible thing that's emblematic of a generation gap, but it's. not.

the plot is: there's toilets with human heads in them that go "skibidi dom dom dom yes yes, skibidi dabbadul neef neef". they can move despite a lack of ambulatory appendages. this is wacky and unsettling, but the chief question is: Do They Win In A Fight Against Some Robots With Cameras For Heads?

it's an action movie about a war against an alien invasion. that's it. less than the first thirty seconds of it are anarchic GMod YTP insanity- it develops a plot almost immediately. the plot is paper-thin and conveyed almost entirely without dialogue, existing to set up giant robot fights and zombie apocalypse jumpscares.

who are these factions? why are they fighting? you aren't failing to get it because the kids these days are on some totally different psychic wavelength. the show simply does not give a shit about this question. here are some bad guys! here are some good guys! they're going to do explosions and punches at each other for roughly two minutes until the perspective camera is abruptly destroyed in the crossfire somehow.

it is a remarkably competently-shot action movie. the fight scenes are weighty and satisfying and have lots of exciting little twists and turns as the two sides pull increasingly bigger weapons and gadgets out of their asses. the production gets more elaborate over time, and it's a pretty stellar example of what machinima is capable of. genuinely good at the things it's trying to do.

it does kinda fall down a little later, as it attempts to develop Characters and Deepest Lore after kind of not caring about that for most of its runtime. the decision to have "dialogue" almost exclusively in the form of incomprehensible heavily-filtered backwards speech with no subtitles is probably rewarding for die-hard Skibidi-heads who have the time on their hands to mess with the audio and uncover all the hidden messages, but it means you are not going to understand anything anyone is saying on a normal watch.

the action suffers from this decision a little bit towards the end, as for reasons that completely fail to come across, the toilets appear to have broken into their own factions and start fighting each other and forming various alliances, which disrupts the simplicity of the setup and makes it hard to determine who's winning a fight at any given time. a giant scary toilet man just exploded! was that bad, or good? listen, don't worry about it. all you need to know is that these things are going to keep happening until DaFuqBoom gets bored.

it's like a... 7/10, shallow but enjoyable. easy to see why kids like it. not going to give you any deeper insights into the Kids These Days, but there's worse ways to spend a couple hours.

(the most confusing thing to me is how something this straightforward got a reputation for crossing some sort of rubicon of cultural alienation. did everyone born in the 20th century who talks about this show just watch eighteen seconds of it and give up???)