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I'm more confused about the confusion surrounding Skibidi Toilet than the thing itself. How is it confusing? Millennials already saw this kind of thing. This video is from October 2007 for example. Also all those weird animations on Newgrounds, people like Tom Green, the entire "random" fad from 20 years ago. Now I'm feeling all wistful and nostalgic for Salad Fingers. Those were good times honestly, felt like internet creativity was more organic back when there wasn't any money to be made
It's just some surreal animations with Half-Life 2 assets, right? I've been seeing stuff exactly like it for over half my life now. If anything I think it's cool that there's still life surrounding Half-Life 2 and Source engine stuff. lot of good times with those communities
also from my understanding a lot of popular slang that's considered gibberish (gyatt, rizz, cap, simp, etc) is just repurposed NYC/Chicago/Atlanta black slang that's been around for decades
The most confusing part about Skibidi Toilet is that it's using stock HL2 era assets. I thought that had been thoroughly mined for content 15+ years ago.
Source filmmaker is still free and accessible so we'll probably see those assets used for a long time