Skibidi Toilet
You might remember it as skibidi toilet episode 1, DaFuq Boom Skibidi Toilet
The archive has not found a surviving copy.
The defining children's-internet franchise of the 2020s and a genuinely new native format.
At a glanceThe facts
- Remembered as
- skibidi toilet episode 1
- Spread in
- 2023
- Format
- Video
- Made by
- Alexey Gerasimov, who animates as Blugray
- Taken from
- Made in Source Filmmaker, a free animation tool from the games company Valve
- The song
- A mashup of Give It to Me by Timbaland and Dom Dom Yes Yes by Biser King, put together by a TikTok user
- Origin
- Origin not yet established
- Available
- Not held by ViralWorld
Why it matteredWhat changed
A series of short animations made by one person with free software was watched sixty-five billion times in its first year, and gave a generation a word that means nothing.
TimelineIn order
- Posted
The first episode, eleven seconds long, is uploaded to YouTube.1
- Record
The series has about five billion views.1
- Record
It has passed sixty-five billion views on YouTube.1
- Mainstream
The film director Michael Bay is reported to be in talks to adapt it.1
- Later
A copyright claim against the game Garry’s Mod, made in the series’ name, becomes public. Gerasimov says he did not send it, and it is resolved.1
What people misrememberSet straight
Commonly remembered asThe music was made for the series.
ActuallyIt is a mashup of two existing songs that a TikTok user had already combined.1
Commonly remembered asSkibidi means something.
ActuallyThe word has no established definition.1
Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · a moment that changed what the internet did next · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later · the upload that made its maker known
Where it came fromWhat we know
Original source uncertain. This is the earliest copy currently known.
No original upload has been established for this record. The index is showing the earliest copy it currently knows about, and says so rather than guessing.
Created by Alexey Gerasimov. Established by research, not by who posted the copy shown here.
- When
- The sources below date the original to 2023-02-07. ViralWorld records this as a cited claim rather than an established publication date, because it holds no copy to check it against.
ConnectedFollow it further
- Referred to by Brain rotPhrase · 2024
Skibidi Toilet is named among the content the term is used about.
SourcesWhat was read
Sources last read on . That date is about the history on this page. Whether the media still plays is checked separately and can change any day. How ViralWorld documents things