Same. In 20 years Gen A won’t be interested in whatever 12 year olds are watching; why should I be different?
otter@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
I’m curious, but not curious enough to watch it myself. If you have highlights or a summary later, I’d read it lol
MisterMoo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Same
dustyData@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s done by some Millenial or GenZer animator. It’s a series of videos made on Source Filmmaker that feature prominently the head of Half-Life character, Gman, amongst others, protruding out of a toilet, doing a comically animated dance to various remixes of popular songs with the special featuring of the line “Skibidi”. The remixes are all original for the videos. The extremely short videos were initially of only the toilet man dancing with fellow toilet folk, but it has evolved to follow the conflict between skibidi toilets against camera head men struggling to take over the world with increasingly ridiculous scenarios of combat and warfare that include mechas, gore and sci-fi weapons. It has no dialogue, the plot is implied via animation exclusively.
The thing went popular on the YouTube shorts algorithmic suggestions and since it has no dialogue, it features repetitive and catchy music and a bizarre and amusing subject matter with immature bodily function humor, it garnered massive attention by small children. I say that Gen alpha barely passes 10 years old right now, so we should give them a break before imposing inflexible marketing labels upon them.
Delphia@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Good breakdown.
Ive explained it to people as "On the grand scheme of entertainment, its insane and not very good. On the scale of “indie films made on a $0 budget” its better than it has any right to be and for what it is, which is an animated science fiction war movie with no dialogue made in an ex soviet country on a pc by one guy its a fucking masterpiece. "
Maalus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I read somewhere that the animator is a 14yo kid from Russia. Can’t check now tho. They also supposedly stopped monetizing it cause it brought them too much money and they wanted to avoid the issues that go with that
dustyData@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It shows, animation keep getting better every episode. He’s obviously learning a lot from these. Also, I think most episodes are muted now as several grifter have made remixes that sound exactly as his music and copyright claimed his videos. But if he doesn’t want to monetize them anymore it still sucks that someone is trying to funnel money out of a kid’s work.