I keep seeing it on my random feed suggestions and this is using NewPipe, so it has nothing to do with my actual YouTube activity (I think. Nothing there is stuff I’m interested in, with very few exceptions). So I’ve ignored it first, then I watched like two and was super confused. Wtf. These videos have millions of views and I don’t even understand the name or what’s the appeal.
My son watches this show and all the media that’s based on it, there’s alot of bandwagon youtube stuff that people have jumped on just to get those all-important views. I try to understand what my kids are into, so I sat down and actually watched all 60+ episodes of it that were out at the time.
As others have explained, it basically started as a video made with Source Filmmaker that uses assets/characters from Half-life. Alot of it is non-sensical, but there’s some sort of invading force of skibidi toilets (toilets with heads popping out that sing the skibidi song) that are apparently attacking this world. There seems to be regular people there sometimes in earlier episodes, but mostly you see Camera Men (literally just people with videocameras for heads) that are fighting back in some sort of forever war.
As the series progresses, new characters, skibidis, and electronics people are added to the roster, it’s a sort of constant one-upsmanship between the two powers, almost akin to GI Joe or Transformers, but weirder. So you start seeing SpeakerMan, TVMan, and even -Woman, and -Titan versions of all these, but then the Skibidis too come up with new weapons or variants in the war.
And that’s the basic gist of it, though the lore just keeps getting built up over time and keeps getting progressively weirder. My son gets obsessed with it and the music is annoying as hell, I hadn’t heard the skibidi song before, but it’s apparently a remix of something. The electronics people also play a Tears for Fear song (“Everybody wants to rule the world”).
You’re a hero parent and a hero explainer. We won’t forget your sacrifice.
This is real commitment… I’m at loss of words (in a good way, of course)
The episodes are fairly short, a few minutes at most, so it was maybe an hour or two (?), not a huge commitment, just sitting with my son watching what he’s watching. I’ve probably barely scratched the surface of it. Some recent stuff I saw lately was some sort of Clock people that can rewind time and you’ve got weird things with parasite skibidis that can control the electronics people. Shit is weird, but, at a basic level, I think it’s still in line with stuff like the Transformers cartoons. Raising the stakes to introduce new powers/characters. I’m actually surprised there isn’t any action figure marketing for this out there yet (not that I’ve seen). Amazon has some pretty shitty merch available that’s probably just been made by chinese knock-off companies.