#skibidi loo

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the butt ghost is real

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Skibidi Toilet NPT pack !

Names: Skibidi, Toilet, John/Jon, Throne, Lava, Tory, Latrine, Loo, Lav, Uri(nal) Prns: Skibidi/Skibidiself, Toilet/Toiletself, Ski/Skib, Ibi/Ibidi, 🚽/🚽's Titles: [Prn] from the Toilet, [Prn] wrapped in Skibidi, The [Prn's] Ivory Throne, [Prn] who Skibidi's [Prn's] Fanum Tax

Graphic by: @yaoitistic Dividers by: @/Iv-ry

[dinapiss]

napoleon loos like a basset hound when he younger. yes... skibidi bopb obp bop bop bop oui.. skibidi bop bop oui

No, he’s a dachshund

[feraliminal]

Titan TVman and Beowulf are Basically the Same Character: Why Skibidi Toilet Is Folklore

It’s been a long time since I’ve touched the hellsite (I used to doodle and write dirty fic), but I’m fascinated by the silly toilet men videos, their popularity, and the confusion about their popularity. And because I’m a huge nerd and always want to know why people do things, I wrote something. It’s too long to leave on my Notes app and forget about, and I’m also not letting skibidi toilets anywhere near my serious blog. So I actually came back to Tumblr for this.

(Also the first stupid doodle I’ve done in forever, here’s the original meme.)

Toilet humour is obviously a huge part of why it’s so popular, and imho it’s a poop joke that got bigger than the creator intended it to. Toilets are endlessly amusing, particularly for kids, because learning to manage your waste is essential to being a civilised person but something that no one really wants to do. Some of the first conflicts between kids and their parents are often around cleanliness and potty training, and as we get older, the toilet is one of the few places where we’re first alone, particularly if we share a bedroom with siblings. Childlore and fiction about childhood is full of toilets: bullies that strike in school toilets, toilet ghosts like Bloody Mary and Hanako-san, people who died on the loo, and rats or spiders that bite your bum. It’s a classic example of a liminal space that looks mundane but could be full of scary shit.

So that’s my first smart theory, Skibidi Toilet is a contemporary haunted toilet story with something to do with dirt and discomfort vs tech. Clever theories about symbolism are fun and I think symbolism that feels relevant and familiar might be why something first attracts someone’s attention, but I don’t think it can explain the thing having fandom.

The only thing people love as much as poop jokes is stories about cool guys having punch ups, and there’s plenty of that as well. Visually and thematically, Skibidi uses all the tropes that we love in serious popular media - fights, explosions, monsters, giants, noise, the aforementioned cool robots. Swap out skibidi toilets for alien invaders, and cameramen with plungers for cyborgs with swords, and we’d have a respectable alien apocalypse story that’s identical to five other summer blockbusters. But as it is, it’s so ridiculous that it can only be a silly little internet video.

There’s a video by MatPat making a convincing argument that it’s actually about the conflict between independent content creators and the conventional media industry. But again, I think it’s also probably only indirectly what’s turning curious views into millions of subscriptions, especially since the earlier netlore was pretty niche. I think what viewers are picking up on is the dissonance between cool robots, apocalypse horror, and silly toilets, evidenced by most of the comments on YouTube being variation of “why is this actually good”. It’s got the same vibe as other stuff I’d classify as creepypasta-style or meme-style horror: Five Nights at Freddy’s, Among Us, Homestuck, and so on. In meme horror, there is an in-universe threat to characters that’s not played for laughs. However, something like a ridiculous gimmick, a parody of pop culture, or a dissonantly cute art style makes it clear that adult viewers who understand it as fiction don’t have to respect the threat.

The line between feared and respected has always been thin. A cool example of this is the word aglæca in Beowulf and other Old English texts. Aglæca is a debated word because it’s mainly used to describe monsters and demons, but is sometimes used to describe heroes and saints. Both the human hero Beowulf and his monster opponent Grendel are called aglæca. Based on this use and its etymology, some medieval studies scholars think it means something more like an uncanny and powerful outsider. I think a big part of meme horror’s appeal is that it’s still got heroes who are more or less serious characters fighting serious battles. We can respect the characters and their struggles even if we don’t fear the absurd stuff. I’ve chosen Titan TVman for my silly title because they’re the character that best embodies the “uncanny hero” aspect for me, but tbh I think that most meme horror heroes/anti-heroes seem to be these character types.

We know that enjoying horror fiction helps some people manage anxiety and fear, and comedy horror can help us laugh at fear. With the retained seriousness besides the playfulness, meme horror might be more beneficial than basic serious or comedy horror as a comfortably uncomfortable middle ground between the two. Cringe is currently having a cultural moment too, where concerns about and celebrations of being cringe are everywhere, so it might also give us a way of exploring and processing our feelings about embarrassment as well as fear.

Memes, and therefore meme horror, are very amenable to being collaboratively and spontaneously adapted and spread by regular folk. They’re a new form of folklore, essentially. They address stuff that’s relevant to the lives of regular folk, including ugly and uncomfortable things. There’s even a theory that the culture of the very online has began an era of “secondary orality” where how we spread stories on the internet replicates how we used to spread folk stories by word-of-mouth. Secondary orality is a double-edged sword, as it can build creative and supportive communities, but also spreads conspiracy theories and hate. No wonder some of us might not be having our needs fulfilled by regular horror fiction, if we’re facing the bad kind of secondary orality as well as everything else that’s going on in the world. (More allegories! An increasingly absurd and hostile world is another theme in Skibidi Toilet.)

The 1938 book Homo Ludens argued that doing things just for fun has defined features and benefits: play gives us freedom to express ourselves, it’s separate from everyday life, it allows us to construct new worlds with new rules, and it’s never compulsory or for profit. When we’re bombarded by media that’s designed to extract the maximum amount of profit from us, engaging with mainstream entertainment might sometimes feel not as playful or as voluntary. But by being a bit cringe, meme horror retains the appearance of being indie and just for fun even if it becomes obscenely popular.

So, for me, this is what Skibidi Toilet is about. It’s about new folklore playing the same role as old folklore, even if it looks like silly toilet men videos, because we’re essentially the same people as our ancestors telling monster stories around the fire.

[chaifootsteps]

What I personally really like about the idea of Paimon being a good grandpa to Octavia is that it's hilarious ofc, but if Stolas was more like his Instagram self or even how he was in loo loo land, this could easily be portrayed as a complicated and tragic situation. A better show could have used it as a chance to explore family dynamics and exactly why bad parents sometimes done on their grandchildren like crazy.

- skibidi toilet anon

I know we express this same sentiment about a dozen times every day in various ways, but I really wish we had that better show, and that we were talking about it right now instead of this.

[aboardthescheherazade]

Hi 👋 !

35, 36, 41 and 42 from"The Adventure of Tintin" Asks

(Sorry about the wait!! I had a LONG day at work IRL ahah)

35. If you were in Tintin, which character would you want to be in?

I assume this means means be a canon character, or a be a character somewhere in the setting? If it's the latter case, I think I'd like to be a civilian in Brussels...you get to live a quiet, scenic life, and you know the Marlinspike crew will tip your local business well

36. Which version of Tintin is your favourite?

I try not to be biased, but I'm most partial to the 1991 TV series version of Tintin - it's likely a combination of nostalgia and of how sassy he is in the English version sometimes. A lot of times, my mind will "hear" Tintin's 1991 voice when reading his dialogue in something. (Except for earlier comic series Tintin; the "voice" sounds more like Finn from the Adventure Time pilot.)

41. Any Tintin OC?

Definitely! There's two I've created, Marlene and Lash (the latter of whom I really need to do more with), and a few characters from the comics I've sort-of adopted. They're the actress sitting next to Rastapopoulos in Tintin In America and the antique store owner near the end of The Broken Ear (both canon characters by like...literally one panel lol)

42. Any Alternate Universe for Tintin?

None that I've created...I really only just play around in the AUs my friends write, but if I had to pick one, I guess I use the Modern AU most. There's a lot of fun in to be found in making jokes about modern culture around the main cast, but also, there's a lot of potential to be had in writing about more serious concepts.

(Note: I've had this concept for several weeks now, and I insist it is not based off of current events happening at this time of writing.) Imagine someone is blatantly using AI to manipulate footage for Bordurian news broadcasts. It's creating tensions with Syldavia, and Tintin is alarmed by how the altered footage is helping the far right in Borduria. Something is going on in Borduria, but when even international news outlets are getting fooled by these alternate broadcasts, Tintin decides to take a case no one else with his publishing network will take, and goes to Borduria to go undercover as a regular citizen...

Meanwhile, Captain Haddock joins Tintin at the last minute as an excuse to get away from Abdullah, who has just been left in the Hall's care. However, the night before they all leave, Haddock is forced to hear Skibidi Toilet videos from down the hall for two hours. He struggles to help Tintin in spite of hallucinating "the bloody Skeetzy-Bee Loo song or god knows whatever"

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Skibidi Toilet. Do yall Brits call it Skibidi Loo? Skibidi WC? Skibidi Bog? Skibidi Lavatory? Skibidi Privy? Whatta ya say in the UK? Sincerely, An American Tumblr User

hi darlin' i hate this

sincerely,

a british person

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A rectangular image of Skibidi Toilet from the YouTube series of the same name, a white frill pattern is around it. Skibidi Toilet is a 3D modeled character of a toilet with a human head coming from the bowl.

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Skibidi Toilet NPT pack !

Names: Skibidi, Toilet, John/Jon, Throne, Lava, Tory, Latrine, Loo, Lav, Uri(nal)

Prns: Skibidi/Skibidiself, Toilet/Toiletself, Ski/Skib, Ibi/Ibidi, 🚽/🚽's

Titles: [Prn] from the Toilet, [Prn] wrapped in Skibidi, The [Prn's] Ivory Throne, [Prn] who Skibidi's [Prn's] Fanum Tax

Graphic by: @/yaoitistic

Dividers by: @/Iv-ry

Skibidi Toilet NPT pack !

Names: Skibidi, Toilet, John/Jon, Throne, Lava, Tory, Latrine, Loo, Lav, Uri(nal) Prns: Skibidi/Skibidiself, Toilet/Toiletself, Ski/Skib, Ibi/Ibidi, 🚽/🚽's Titles: [Prn] from the Toilet, [Prn] wrapped in Skibidi, The [Prn's] Ivory Throne, [Prn] who Skibidi's [Prn's] Fanum Tax

Graphic by: @yaoitistic Dividers by: @/Iv-ry