The debatable YouTube series, Skibidi Toilet, is about to become popular, with Transformers director Michael Bay expanding the viral sensation into a film and television franchise.
Bay and former Paramount president Adam Goodman have high hopes for the series, with Goodman telling Variety that Skibidi Toilet “could be the next Transformers or it could just be a Marvel Universe. “
Skibidi Toilet is an animated series created by Georgian animator Alexey Gerasimov, who discovered good luck after posting an 11-second short film on YouTube featuring a singing head emerging from a toilet.
This first simple but striking brief; a dreadful bathroom man, who makes a song with the lyrics remixed from a Biser King song, taken from a TikTok meme.
At first, Gerasimov perked up through recurring nightmares of “heads coming out of the bathroom” and set out to combat his subconscious in the virtual world, animating his fears with the help of Valve’s Source Filmmaker.
After his first short film, Skibidi, went viral, Gerasimov evolved the concept into a narrative, an all-consuming war between two Cyborgian factions, in which both sides desperately build stronger bodies and weapons, employing the mechanical parts of the fallen soldiers’ structure.
By posting the episode on his YouTube channel, DaFuq!?Boom!, Gerasimov’s series features men with speakers, cameras, and TV screens as faces battling the headline that makes a musical toilet, with plenty of background tracks and Easter eggs for enthusiasts to analyze.
The series has been strangely popular with children, which has generated complaints from many parents involved, who are carried away by what they see on screen.
The animation even encouraged something akin to ethical panic, with considerations about the videos manifesting as a condition called “Skibidi bathroom syndrome,” which is now something of a meme.
While the chaotic series is almost incomprehensible to outsiders, Skibidi Toilet has proven very popular with Gen Alpha, with characters streamed on YouTube and Roblox as recognizable to young people as classic Disney icons like Iron Man and Elsa.
The videos’ widespread appeal can simply be attributed to their lack of dialogue, their unique aesthetic, and Gerasimov’s constant posting schedule, as well as the advent of YouTube shorts.
Skibidi Toilet now has 76 episodes and has been viewed more than 775 million times on YouTube, while footage from the series has been remixed and posted on other platforms and has fueled a flood of animations and fan art.
The series is rooted in meme culture, with its absurd images and catchy, repetitive songs, as well as creative combat sequences that resemble video game sequences.
As it might seem, the endless war of Skibidi Toilet is very similar to the clash of Michael Bay’s Transformers films, which Gerasimov cites as a direct inspiration.
Bay will now turn Gerasimov’s story into a successful franchise.
Skibidi’s health workers, it seems, have come full circle.
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