If you’ve been spending some time on TikTok or YouTube lately, you might have seen some short, weird videos of heads popping out of toilet bowls and singing a slightly catchy song. The clips were created with the software behind them valves games like half-life 2 And Team Fortress 2, have garnered millions of views on YouTube since they emerged earlier this year. But what is this trend? what is the song And more importantly, what’s in the shit is actually happens here?
Known as the “Skibidi toilet,” this trend is part of a series of YouTube shorts that went viral in February. Created by a Georgia-based animator DaFuqBoomThe videos show a random human head making erratic movements in a toilet bowl (colloquially known as a toilet creature) and singing a remix of a Turkish song that took TikTok by storm in 2022 thanks to “Tummy Dancer.” Yasin Cengiz. The song Cengiz danced to: “Dom Dom Yes Yes” by Turkish group Biser King spawned its own viral TikTok trend, which has been fueled by YouTubers like TurkishTwitch streamers and fitness influencers Paryss BryanneAnd thatoneguy.tt everything moves sporadically to the catchy bop. And as a viral beginning, we’ve arrived in our present moment, where the onomatopoeia of the refrain “brr skibidi dop dop dop dop ja ja ja ja ja” has become an audio file used by YouTubers like DaFuqBoom to create truly disturbing content.
A war between cameramen and toilet creatures
So what happens in the videos of DaFuqBoom? They start out pretty harmless. The first episode of the ongoing series embedded above, which was uploaded on February 7th and has had over 75 million views at the time of writing, is just a head singing the song. But with each episode, the mission becomes more and more difficult. From the third episode, an army of toilet creatures rush into a town while the residents look on in pathetic horror. There are a few episodes that have different interpretations, such as Episode four dubbing it with one war of stars Theme And Episode six with Lady Gaga’s “Bloody Mary,” But the song is always the same and the toilet creatures are always present. Until you reach episode eightthings are in full swing when a war begins between people with cameras for heads (the cameramen) and toilet creatures. Everything comes to a head episode 12 As the cameramen fight back and try to thwart the invasion as toilet creatures lase the city.
It continues at this pace with each subsequent episode. The cameramen send out spider-legged tanks to bombard floating toilet creatures. Toilet creatures fire laser beams and blast everything on their way to dominance. The cameramen even get in touch Giant mechs in episode 18 to crush the toilet creatures just to get absolutely right once episode 22 rolls around. And at the end of most videos, there’s a pseudo jump scare where a toilet creature quickly approaches the camera and makes as disturbing a face as possible. It’s scary.
The creator of the Skibidi toilet has been blown away by the series’ popularity
People love everything DaFuqBoom does here. Many of the responses to his videos cry out for a live-action series. Others are invested in the story DaFuqBoom is telling and hope the cameramen will overwhelm the toilet creatures. Assault and save their city. A few people have even said that the Skibidi toilet is better than anime. In the end, most people wonder why they are interested in this “show” that they can’t seem to turn their backs on. Having spent a few hours watching each episode on YouTube, the simple answer is: it’s fun, intense, and unsettling all at the same time. Things are developing fast. The toilet creatures develop technology to control the cameramen, while the cameramen recruit new soldiers with radios and televisions as heads that can paralyze the toilet creatures and flush them instantly. It is strange. But it’s also a look at how collective action can overcome repressive regimes.
DaFuqBoom, whose real name is Alexey, narrated Dexerto in a June 29 interview that he spent nine years animating with Valve’s proprietary 3D software tool, Source Filmmaker. DaFuqBoom took inspiration from Paryss Bryanne and said he didn’t expect it his random videos explode like they did.
“I made a parody of their version of the ‘Skibidi Dop Dop Yes Yes’ meme,” DaFuqBoom told the publication. “[The] The skibidi toilet video was a random thing just based on [an unexpected] Head pops out of the toilet.”
It’s probably the toilet creatures themselves that have skyrocketed the virality of his videos. Created with assets by Counter Strike Source And half-life 2give these toilet creatures head crab meets siren head in a toilet. And this inspiration from Valve seems to be on purpose, because while he knows his way around Blender, DaFuqBoom chose Source Filmmaker for one simple reason.
“Easier access to various assets [and a] Great interface,” said DaFuqBoom. “I also know how to animate in Blender, but the whole process including lighting and rendering would take time [three times as longer].”
The trend has become so popular on DaFuqBoom that he’s noticed copycats popping up on TikTok. Despite with over 250,000 followers He has trouble confronting the scammers on the short video sharing platform.
“I’ve tried turning them off, but TikTok support doesn’t care, even after all the evidence I’ve given them,” DaFuqBoom said. “You can’t verify me.”
my city I contacted DaFuqBoom for a comment.
The copycats suck, but that doesn’t stop him. He has more episodes planned, the main plot of which is already set. He also has developed a single player action shooter mobile game based on the Skibidi toilet. So it looks like we’ll be seeing these toilet creatures for a while. whoops
