Welcome to FTW Explains, a guide to catching up on and better understanding stuff going on in the world. Have you seen a meme or videos with toilets that have heads coming out of them, going to war with other, weird-looking figures? And you’re confused or slightly disturbed? We’re here to help.
What I’m about to break down for you is one of the weirdest things I’ve seen on the internet in the last few months: It’s some toilets with heads in them, singing. But then they also battle other bizarre-looking creatures, and it’s become a whole thing.
Welcome to Skibidi Toilets. We’re here to help explain them:
Seriously. What are you talking about?
Let’s start from the beginning: An animator from Georgia took a Turkish song called Dom Dom Yes Yes by Biser King, combined it with some images from Half-Life 2 and other games, and turned it into videos like the one you see above: A head coming out of a toilet and singing.
What the ... ?
I am not kidding. Gen Alpha watches this for hours a day. This is their slenderman. Look up skibidi toilet on youtube and see for yourself https://t.co/bGitJFnyC0 pic.twitter.com/Wujwl3Ce2r
— Bow Down Before The One You Serb👩🔬 (@AnimeSerbia) July 9, 2023
skibidi toilet 50 (the return of titan cameraman) #skibiditoilet pic.twitter.com/3XXULfgEBd
— Riccardo Filichi (@RiccardoFilichi) July 19, 2023
I know. But it’s gone WAY beyond that thanks to DaFuqBoom. Suddenly, the toilets with heads were going to war against giants with cameras and televisions for heads, and they’re attacking each other and blowing each other up and … yeah, there’s a WHOLE PLOT that continues to unfold with each episode dropping.
You're telling me this is a meme?
Oh, yes.
@therealsullyg Skibidi toilet Otamatone (a sentence I hoped I would never have to type) #otamatone #otamatones #therealsullyg #skibidi #skibiditoilet #skibididopdopdopyesyesyesyesnononono
@iiiyadaaa Skibidi #skibiditoilet 👾👾👾
Has the creator explained this?
Just that it’s exploded. From Dexerto, the creator named Alexey said this:
“It gained bigger views from the start, but I was not expecting to have it that big. It started to blow up huge somewhere during the release of [episodes] 8-9.”
He said that he’s got to upload a new video once every two days because “the quality of the videos has risen.”
Before you say: “Has it really?” Look at that video above and you’ll see some seriously cinematic stuff going on there.
How's it going to end?
Oh so now you’re hooked! And now you know partially why this is such a huge thing.
