• 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.

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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.

  • 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

      It does mean something.

      The skibidi toilet “creatures” are considered the antagonists, and the word is associated with their traits.

      • creepy
      • gross
      • scary
      • weird

      Its an insult to and pretty much interchangeably with “creepy” with a splash of “cringe”

      Often paired with “ohio” which means “bland” / " boring" / “mid”

      Example:

      “Yo he got that skibidi Ohio rizz”

      Translation:

      “This dude has zero game, in fact he is creepy and weird and has negative charisma, people find him repulsive and boring”

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      5 months ago

      I watched an episode or two, and it’s basically the current generation’s version of GMod Idiot Box.

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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

        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