• lil_tank [any, he/him]
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    4610 months ago

    First time I saw Skibidi Toilet I didn’t have the context of it being popular with kids so I assumed it was just regular shitpost and it made me laugh

    I have no idea how people who enjoyed 2016-2020 meme culture reacted so negatively to it

    • Feinsteins_Ghost [he/him]
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      2610 months ago

      Possibly because the generation who appreciated that eras meme culture are growing older and are no longer the rebellious youth. Dipping their toes into the boomer pool, so to speak.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          1810 months ago

          I like Skibidi shenanigans a lot more than my own generation’s “Happy Tree Friends” era of edgy humor.

            • UlyssesT [he/him]
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              510 months ago

              I guess Beavis and Butt-head was my equivalent guilty pleasure. Irreverent nearly to the point of nihilism, but there it was in my teenage years, because I was a dumbass.

            • Tiocfaidhcaisarla [he/him, comrade/them]
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              410 months ago

              I hated it too.

              I’m getting some weird memory that could be completely wrong but I believe my sister was showing me these and excitedly said “this is banned in Cuba!” I was always disgusted by it despite liking “edgy” humor like idk aqua team or whatever and if Cuba banned it, good, though I’m struggling to imagine why that would happen beyond there being poor internet access or just blocking American IPs

            • UlyssesT [he/him]
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              1310 months ago

              I’m glad we agree there. If there was ever a cartoon portrayal of the idea of “cruelty is the point,” it was Happy Tree Friends. solidarity

    • brainw0rms [they/them]
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      10 months ago

      Same, and I just thought it was the one video, but now after this post was made I’ve come to learn there is like hours worth of skibidi toilet videos and I’m blown away. This is no worse than rooster teeth red vs blue, arby n cheef, ytp, or any of the abridged series but as short form video. The kids are alright.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      i-think-that I think edgelord Newgrounds humor, where the entire joke was “something gory happens,” were worse anyway.

      Happy Tree Friends, if you want a specific example. nyet

      • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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        810 months ago

        Stickdeath and its seemless transition from slightly mask on racism to fully mask off racism after 9/11 hitler-detector

      • comrade_pibb [comrade/them]
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        1510 months ago

        The problem with happy tree friends is it was the same joke every single time. Like ok yeah, the juxtaposition is amusing but that’s literally it

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          1310 months ago

          No one I personally knew that was continually entertained by Happy Tree Friends beyond maybe a single one-off shock humor gimmick wound up being a good person later in life.

            • UlyssesT [he/him]
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              10 months ago

              South Park contaminated generations of viewers. I had just about given up trying to socialize offline with people my age back in CA because so many never fucking cleared out the irony poisoning there.

      • lil_tank [any, he/him]
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        1110 months ago

        Holy shit Happy Tree Friends… I remember being a kid and all my friends who had older brothers or cousins talking about it and I was like -> aware

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          910 months ago

          It was not a good time seeing one of those videos, awkwardly laughing at the shock value of it once then getting pressured into watching more and more of pretty much the exact same shock value gimmick over and over and over and over again. Any attempt for me to back out or just do something else was “WHY ARE YOU SO SENSITIVE? WHERE IS YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR?!” smuglord desolate

    • a_little_red_rat [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1510 months ago

      skibidi toilet was more like 2005-2010 meme culture imo, it was exactly like all the shitty “idiots of gmod” shitposts, just ramped up to 11. I really didn’t get the negative reaction from all the “adults” considering I was laughing at the exact same type of shit when I was 13. I’m in my thirties now