If you belong to Generation Alpha (you were born in 2010 or later), Skibidi Toilet makes sense to you, otherwise you may be left scratching your head. But, hey, if you weren’t totally perplexed, Skibidi Toilet wouldn’t be making any waves. Generation Alpha doesn’t want you to understand. Skibidi Toilet is their thing, not yours. It is they who are redefining today’s world, shaping the social media landscape, influencing popular culture and emerging as consumers. We are already old history.
First launched in February 2023, Skibidi Toilet is a hugely popular YouTube series created by 26 year-old, self-taught animator Alexey Gerasimov aka DaFuk, Mr. Boom and Blugray. The machinima series follows a war between human-headed toilets and humanoid characters with electronic devices for heads.
Skibidi Toilet falls into a film subgenre called Machinima, a portmanteau of “machine” and “cinema”.
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The use of “skibidi” has been traced to the Russian rave band, Big Red, in a 2018 song that goes by the same name. Is it a coincidence that the creator of Skibidi Toilet is also Russian (living in Georgia)?
Others claim that skibidi is an onomatopoeia that stems from the lyrics of “Give It to Me” by Timbaland. When sped up, the chorus lyrics “so give it to me, give it to me” sound like “skibidi”. Apparently, a mashup of the lyrics “give it to me, give it to me” and “dom dom yes yes” by Biser King are what makes up the anthem of the Skibidi Toilets and is used throughout the Series.
While “skibidi” originally had no meaning, it has evolved into a slang expression among Generation Alpha, meaning either “bad” or “cool” or something else entirely depending on the context in which it is used. Think of skibidi as nonsense filler, word that is not meant to be understood by adults.
Now that we know about Skibidi Toilet, is its cool factor over? Perhaps … but not quite yet. With 45 million subscribers and the gazillion dollars in ad revenue that goes with such a humongous YouTube audience, Skibidi Toilet has partnered with Fortnite and its 110 million monthly players just in time for the holiday season to launch a new Skibidi Toilet skin and bundle pack. For only $25 you can purchase a Skibidi Toilet accessory, plunger weapons, a backpack and a skin known as Plungerman from the Fortnite Shop. This limited-edition pack is only available until Dec. 28 for use throughout 2025. Cool or not, some folks are making serious money here. Do you have your Skibidi Toilet skin or your collectable yet? LOL.
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