Culture Russian Cops Forced to Investigate YouTube’s Famous ‘Skibidi Toilet’ Series

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Russian authorities are investigating a hugely popular YouTube series known for its animated, human-headed toilets belting out songs.

A Moscow man turned to police last week after he said he’d “accidentally” seen the web series Skibidi Toilet and become concerned about its effect on children, according to local news reports. A law enforcement source said the man had demanded that access to the videos be blocked for their “detrimental effect” on kids.

He reportedly demanded that the series’ creator, Andrei Gerasimov, also be investigated. Skibidi Toilet, a nonsensical series popular with kids, features no dialogue and has only a vaguely discernible plot about human-headed toilets fighting against electronic-headed humanoids.

But it has spawned numerous memes on TikTokand Instagram and become “one of [2023’s] biggest cultural moments,” YouTube culture and trends manager Maddy Buxton told The Washington Post. “I’ve never quite seen anything blow up like this,” Buxton said.

Investigators have now reportedly been tasked with watching hours and hours of Skibidi Toiletvideos. Scrutiny of the singing toilets comes after Russian lawmakers announced plans last summer to create a procedure for checking the safety of a toy or game’s “spiritual and moral ideology.”

The blue-furred, sharp-toothed character Huggy Wuggy from the horror survival game Poppy Playtime was cited as a reason for such checks.

“This character comes to life and must kill its owner,” lawmaker Tatyana Butskaya lamented to Izvestia, adding that Huggy Wuggy “causes horror among children, parents, and legislators.”

 

[Markass the Worst]

That's funny. You'd think they love him because he made a video making fun of Ukraine (well and Russia but the terminally online twittards omit that).

 

[Toolbox]

If the skibidy creator actually gets arrested for his talking toilet series or he's ordered to stop, and that's how it ends the hilarity will be endless.

 

[Jalal-Ibn-Jalal]

Wait till they find out about Skibidi Putin. The FSB will have their head explode like that scene from "Scanners".

 

[Schpoots]

I've heard the creator is a huge asshole so lol @ him.

 

[Toolbox]

I've heard the creator is a huge asshole so lol @ him.

Besides producing more mind cancer for children, of which he's dime a dozen at this point, what have you heard?

 

[Boss Hawg]

I am all in favor of Putin shutting down this retardation mind control material.

 

[pwnest injun]

Besides producing more mind cancer for children, of which he's dime a dozen at this point, what have you heard?

Skibidi Toilet helps satiate the children's hunger for race war.

 

[Toolbox]

Skibidi Toilet helps satiate the children's hunger for race war.

Well that goes without saying.

 

[Schpoots]

Besides producing more mind cancer for children, of which he's dime a dozen at this point, what have you heard?

Dmca/copyright abuse, getting peoples youtube channels deleted, aggressively taking down art/games/reviews involving skibidi content, etc. The Internet is littered with people complaining about his antics.

 

[Vect]

ONE guy complains about something on the Internet and the FSD go full Yezhov?

Snowflakes, and nothing more.

 

[Toolbox]

Dmca/copyright abuse, getting peoples youtube channels deleted, aggressively taking down art/games/reviews involving skibidi content, etc. The Internet is littered with people complaining about his antics.

This is extra stupid cause his toilet 'characters' blatantly rip assets from HL2. Pretty sure Garry Newman at least paid valve a license for Garry's Mod, plus you know he actually credits them. He also uses countless modder's maps and assets and I'm sure a lot of other shit is unoriginal in his work. Another case of pulling the ladder up once you've made your climb.

 

[KiwiFarmer9993!]

Skibidi Toilet helps satiate the children's hunger for race war.

Similar to how playing minecraft satisfies the children's yerning for the mines

 

[NerdShamer]

I now enjoy Skibidi Toilet since it pisses off the Russian glowies

 

[Jew-ish]

I like to think about Sasha returning from the Ukraine with some minor injuries that he has to nurse for a few months. After getting his affairs in order, he starts returning to a normal life. One day he checks the news to see that the Skibidi Toilet creator is being investigated by the state, which forces him to ask himself "What the fuck is a Skibidi Toilet?"

 

[King Bradley]

The creator lives in Georgia which shares a border with Russia. It wouldn't be to hard for the Russians to bring him in for questioning.

 

[Testacles Maximus]

hugely popular YouTube series known for its animated, human-headed toilets belting out songs.

That’s super meta.

 

[Brenda Holiday]

I don't understand why this is attributed to gen alpha. How is this any different than the retarded source filmmaker videos of 2014ish? Are gen alpha aged children actually watching this?

 

[Michael Wade]

When they reach a verdict on whatever the hell this is, let me know. Id like to know how culture past me by so fast.

 

[Toolbox]

I don't understand why this is attributed to gen alpha. Are gen alpha aged children actually watching this?

Yes, it became trendy with them the same as elsagate shit was years earlier and something like Poppy Playtime more recently. Alpha are just now becoming old enough to start shifting the internet in an even more autistic way than zoomers did. At least a portion of Z were not terminally online, at least lacked constant internet access at some earlier point in their lives.

How is this any different than the retarded source filmmaker videos of 2014ish?

It's arguable what the difference is, but I'd say skibity leans even more unabashedly into the lol randum humor while early SFM at least had some comedic structure most of the time. A lot of GMOD stuff, what this is really inspired by, was more closely related.