I watched it and it honestly is pretty cool, kinda catchy and funny and reminiscent of some steam orange box edit from 15 years ago
The youtube comments are full of ~20 year olds complaining about it though (probably mostly ironically but still)
crapping on the Latest Thing Kids Are Doing is one of the early phases of transitioning into an out of touch adult.
every new group thinks they're gonna be young and connected to youth culture forever. when they run into the first thing from younger people they don't get, they feel compelled to explain why "it sucks actually" rather than letting go of their youth status.
Always thought this was a goofy ass compulsion, just let the kids enjoy things?
They're right in that the things kids enjoy usually do suck, but wrong in thinking that doesn't apply to the stuff they liked when they were kids
I still like the flash animation "MY ANUS IS BLEEDING", even though I absolutely know that if I first see it today, I'd be averse and annoyed at hearing the line.
Isn't that from the weird art-film about an animator whose life slowly crumbles around him as he fails to land new gigs? I think it's still pretty good. asdf movie however... I will not rewatch that
its a short by Don Hertzefeldt (hope i spelled it right), who also made the excellent animation 'it's such a beautiful day', which is one of my all time favorite movies. also made the animation 'world of tomorrow' which is probably some of the best speculative sci-fi i've seen.
minor bit of pedantry, despite the simplistic stick figure art style its distinctly NOT flash animation, he does everything analogue (paper and an old school photograph machine) which allows for some wild visual techniques and mixed-media stuff.
Don Hertzfeldt is awesome, he's gotten many offers to do actual commercials but turned every one of them down, which was his inspiration for Rejected
but then Pop Tarts did a whole ad campaign where they just blatantly ripped off his style
Yeah I remember the crumbling paper being very impressive. It was really cool.
Yeah that's a Don Hertzfeldt film. Dude makes incredible shit.
flash animation "MY ANUS IS BLEEDING"
Morbid curiousity led me to google and gyatt daayuum i wish i hadnot
Try "My spoon is too big" if you want the animation and not bleeding anuses.
I honestly think kids got some better stuff these days than what I grew up on. Not across the board, but where was Phoebe Bridgers and her music when I was in middle school? She was probably a zygote and I suffered for that.
crapping on the Latest Thing Kids Are Doing is one of the early phases of transitioning into an out of touch adult.
Does this mean zoomers are becoming out-of-touch-geezers at the seasoned age of ~21 years old?
I remember being 21, back in the early 2010s, I was never even thinking about what younger kids were doing, nobody was.No surely not. I was there when the rizz lords first spoke, I understand the origins of the gyaat, and I've seen the skibidis upon their toilet. This fanum tax eludes me however
I'm still gip with the kids
personally i don't feel like i've ever been in touch with 'youth culture'. even when i was very young i always felt like i never understood what other kids were talking about, and this feeling of alienation from 'the zeitgeist' has persisted into my 30s. like, when i was a kid i liked ninjas and mecha. now that i'm 30 i like ninjas and mecha and communism. but i never liked the name brand IP stuff, Gundam is mid mostly (i especially disliked gundam wing, which was the hot shit when i was a pre-teen), and like 7/10 at its best (gundam IBO, haven't yet seen witch from mercury but i hear good things). transformers is and always was poorly concieved garbage. power rangers were silly but normal IP-less anonymized ninjas were cool. naruto and DBZ were too impractical, even when i was like 6 i didn't like their tacky orange outfits. i liked pokemon (or more accurately i thought pikachu specifically was cute) for like one year and got bored of it while the rest of the world went wild about it. and i never liked any music anyone else had ever heard of. i think assuming that these criticisms are always and necessarily just out of touch adults complaining about what they don't understand is too simplistic, because 'out-of-touch-edness' is not confined to the old and the very concept might be kinda ableist towards the neurodivergent depending on the definition and related assumptions.
"YOLO," said Millennials, and "yeet," the Zoomers cried
"Rizzler gyatt fanum tax," the Alphas then replied
And lo, there came a shaking as an ebon spire rose
Upon it writ the tongues of men, their generations' prose
And from the sky a thund'rous voice called out unto the stone,
As golden letters glowed upon its surface, newly shown:
"RIZZLER GYATT FANUM TAX, SIGMA OHIO SKIBIDI"
And all beheld the words embossed theron in great timidity
With shaking and with wavering voice, the grim refrain began
As all the generations sang the verse at its command
Their weeping and their running sores did nothing to delay
The chanting of that fevered song as night succumbed to day
But rose that morn a blighted sun whose light scoured like a flood
The sky was rent asunder and the rivers turned to blood
Their flesh peeled off in sickly strips, their bones were rendered bare
And still they chanted ever on, the words they uttered there
Until bone and flesh and earth and death were all forgotten things
And still unbidden, undesired, the blackened spire sings
Around it wind the whispers of the souls in its captivity:
"rizzler gyatt fanum tax... sigma ohio skibidi"
Oh shit, it finally happened... I can't understand the internet anymore. Time to go see if I can start investing in a timeshare for a casket.
I feel like it's been in the internet lexicon for long enough I didn't need to elaborate. Did almost use an emoji like
I think some of it is self reflexive cringe. We know it's just like the stuff we were laughing at a couple of years ago, and it's painful to think that we weren't always as enlightened as to understand that Obama impressions and the Adam Friedland show are the highest form of humor.
Nation of Islam Obama remains the best Obama impression, RIP in Peace Michael Brooks.
It's like when Minecraft went from being that game for babies into an icon you can't criticize. Every generation hates on something the youngest one likes for whatever reason.
I'm pretty sure Minecraft was a thing for adult nerds before it became a thing for babies
I just remember it getting a lot of hate around high school before those same people talking shit became addicted to it.
Wait what? Zoomers hate skibidi toilet? I thought zoomers were the reason skibidi toilet was a thing
Gen alpha is the reason skibidi toilet was a thing, zoomers “hate” it ironically because it’s not really any different than 2016 cod trickshot edits
I refuse to accept "gen alpha". If Gen z is late 90s to 2000s, shouldn't "Gen alpha" be in like fifth grade at most? Do they even count as a distinct generation yet? Are we gonna get Gen Beta in like two years?
It's such an arbitrary and contrarian concept, just scrap the idea of namwd "generations" altogether.
The youngest millennials are like 26 (1997 is the cutoff per the idiots who came up with it). People are really jumping the gun, as the youngest gen z is like 10 years old.
It's like the memeification of generations. Like kids that were born in 2007 saw all the zoomers distinguishing themselves from millennials and now they want in on calling people slightly older than them "boomers".
gen alpha is killing the apple sauce industry with their selfish preference for chocolate pudding cups
Seriously I'm 30 how are there 2 generations with distinct media tastes fighting already behind me.
I think generations are valid, but the demarcations for the generations are terrible. They should be based on watershed moments in history of a given country. Since different countries will have different watershed moments, generations should be country specific. For example, a "boomer Iraqi" makes no sense because Iraq didn't have a baby boom equivalent.
In terms of zoomers, I demarcate the two watershed moments as 9/11 and Covid. In other words, zoomers weren't old enough to remember a pre-9/11 world but old enough to remember a pre-Covid world. Since someone born a day before 9/11 would have zero memory of 9/11, let along a pre-9/11 world, there can be a ~4 year offset before the actual year of the watershed. For me anyways, a zoomer is someone born between 1997 (2001-4) and 2016 (2020-4). Within this almost 20 year range, you could subdivide this so you can categories like "old zoomer" or "peak zoomer." The 2008 financial crash and the 2016 presidential election are two minor watershed moments. So 1997-2004 are the early zoomers, 2004-2012 are the peak zoomers, and 2012-2016 are the later zoomers. Agewise, this is 19-26 for older zoomers, 11-19 for the middle zoomers, and 7-11 for the younger zoomers.
The hate of skibidi toilet is just older zoomers cringing at younger zoomers, but everyone involved is a zoomer.
Zoomers are now in their "I'm like 20 now and I feel like I'm ancient" phase where they have to ironically hate on the new Gen saying boomer shit like "kids these days aren't as good as we were"
Truth. To truly become based you must turn off your cringe inhibitors and fully embrace yourself
Whenever people younger then me tell me they like something I always engage them and let them tell me about their new interest. Its sucks to be an old grouch and refuse to understand people just because they're younger than you.
Zoomers have to ironically hate on the new Gen saying boomer shit like "kids these days aren't as good as we were"
fair enough, I guess they have to force it in before the world ends
Doesn’t matter, all you need to know is no generation is more cringe than millennials
Yeah, I like how "Boomers" is basically anyone born between 1900 and 1985, then it's seemingly a new "generation" every 5 years after that.
Isn't gen alpha like 6 at this point how do they even have something for zoomers to hate.
IMO the Z/Alpha split doesn't make any sense at all. With Boomers/Gen X it makes sense because one grew up in postawar America and got to prosper and the other grew up in Neoliberal America and didn't, Millenial vs Gen Z makes sense as a distinction because the Internet became big while Millenials were already established but Gen Z grew up with Web 2.0 totally dominating their lives, but what, exactly, is the dividing line between Gen Z and Alpha? Nothing, they're the same generation, it's just kids who don't like something telling the kids who like it that their taste is bad.
The split should be between pre-Covid and "post"-Covid, so your oldest alpha is like 7. And this is only partially effective because society has collectively decided to pretend Covid didn't happen, so it's not a very significant demarcation.
Skibidi toilet was killed by a rival white supremacist gang in the streets of São Paulo.
I thought this was an actual thing that happened. Now I feel stupid lmao
https://nitter.privacydev.net/LeviathanAgain/status/1704183062454587857
I won't claim someone as a zoomer if they don't like skibidi. Shame upon them
Is not any different than the dumb gmod idiot box shit me and my friends used to watch so no hate
That or the slightly earlier Half-Life: Full Life Consequences or Idiots of Garry's Mod
I am a zoomer who teaches alpha, and except for Bluey and Miraculous Ladybug, all of their touchstone media is stuff that was big before my time. They all up in Mario and Sonic and Frozen and that. When I was a kid, we had like iCarly and Codename Kids Nextdoor and Avatar. Now its like there's nothing unifying for the kids to watch. Kinda sad.
This is sounding eerily similar to the Boomer-millennial-(and apparently possibly alpha) complex vs. the genX-zoomer complex
where each complex has vaguely similar behaviors/traits due to most of them being raised by the previous generation
It's also very interesting that I (millennial) generally dislike zoomer stuff but skibidi seems pretty enjoyable to me (small sample size still but we'll see)
Except its pretty sad because a lot of my students' parents are around my age, some are literally my age and maybe a quarter are only 2-4 years older. I can't imagine being ready for a baby in 2-4 years let alone having had one 2-4 years ago :(
Actually this tracks lol I'm pretty into industrial bc my parents were huge Korn/KMFDM fans!
I LOVE SKIBIDI TOILET I USED TO HATE IT BUT MY PARTNER SHOWED ME THE LIGHT I LOVE SKIBIDI TOILET I LOVE SKIBIDI TOILET ILOVESKIBIDITOILETILOVE....
I slashed my own eyes because as long as I follow skibidi toilet I can never be blind.
I actually really like Skibidi. Really like how the toilets (poop, most essential and base humanity) are engaged in people's war against the panopticon.
Citations Needed episode 38 is the theory you all need smdh get off my lawn
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