• u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 months ago

    While others did explain skibidi toilet, I think it would be good to step back a little to what popularised the… sound? “skibidi”.

    Some Turkish dude used this part of a song in his belly dance video. I am talking about a bouncy belly. This is a repost of that: https://youtube.com/shorts/3-RlRmYshCQ
    He then later posted more similar videos, becoming a meme.

    As for the song, this is it: https://youtu.be/0U7SBGBCoGs

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      5 months ago

      “Skibidy” predates this song by a long shot. It’s a common vocalization used in a lot of scat singing, so it’s possibly a century old at this point.

  • PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    Skibidi Toilet is a serious of SFM shorts that became popular with young kids. Think in the same vein as the weird flash videos or early SFM videos that were popular with young kids 10-15 years ago. “Skibidi” doesn’t mean anything and is just taken from that.

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    5 months ago

    Gen X guy here. This is literally the first time I have come across the word “skibidi”. I simultaneously wish I could help you, and glad I don’t know what that asinine word means.

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    5 months ago

    I’m a millennial who doesn’t really know.

    But. It seems like the duck billed platypus of zoomer humor. YouTube pays for views. And people just make million of videos. And this one happened to catch on. And it’s so bizarre people show it to their friends. Hilarity ensues. 🤷

    Its what the blind algorithm hath brought us.

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      5 months ago

      …and it’s all subconscious representations of feelings about the internet.

      It makes some users into toilet brained idiots. Perverts looking to gorge themselves on internet filth.

      It reveals people as political agents if governments.

      It shows some are just “camera men” viewers, recorders, uploaders, and others are speakers trying to say something.

      It questions what can be ridiculous in this new arena - if anything in an age defined by the scale of your “influence”… And how that causes our drama chips to go haywire.

      The art style is known as Machinima, and dates back to the early 90s.

      Humans actually have trouble saying things that aren’t meaningful - our subconscious tends to always have something to say due to always having to hold things back. It’s just who we are.

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        5 months ago

        Probably since the author is russian (?) that’s where they took it from. But it was interesting to learn that it’s a common phrase for a range of artists.

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          5 months ago

          Russian didn’t have this word before Little Big either, for all I know.

          It doesn’t actually mean anything, just a cool set of sounds