The 'Skibidi Toilet multiverse' is 'absolutely in talks' to become a TV and movie series from Michael Bay
The phenomenon known as Skibidi Toilet is a little hard to explain. At a glance, it's a meme where a man's head pops out of a toilet and spins around as he sings «skibidi dop dop dop yes yes, skibidi double-u reeh reeh.»
You can stop reading here if that's quite enough for you. If I could have stopped there myself, believe me, I would have.
Plunge a bit deeper and you'll discover that singing toilet man is just the beginning of a (currently) 76-part machinima series on the DaFuq!?Boom! YouTube channel. The series depicts a war between toilets with human heads—the very Skibidi Toilets themselves—and our planet's defenders, humanoids with cameras and other electronics for heads. Animator Alexey Gerasimov, known as Boom, uses Source Filmmaker to create the series—if that singing head looks familiar, it's the Male_07 character model from Half-Life 2 (also used in some webcomic by some guy about a million years ago). G-Man (here known as G-Toilet) and other characters from the Half-Life series make appearances, too.
The absurdist machinima series, and other Skibidi Toilet-related videos, exploded in popularity to the tune of 65 billion views in 2023, with another 15 billion or so on TikTok. Those numbers are precisely why Hollywood has come a-callin'—namely former Paramount Pictures president Adam Goodman and director Michael Bay of Transformers fame. Yep, that singing head in the toilet might just hit the big screen someday.
«Skibidi Toilet is IP. And that's the best way to describe it, » said Goodman on Variety's «Strictly Business» podcast today, which I listened to as a portion of my soul slowly crumbled to dust. Though it began as a meme, Goodman says it's grown to incorporate «lore and cliffhangers, and about 20 other channels that are making daily content in the Skibidi Toilet multiverse.»
As I mourned the loss of millions of my brain cells at the phrase «Skibidi Toilet multiverse,» Goodman went on to call its popularity on YouTube and Tiktok «unprecedented» and
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