Summary
- We all make fun of Gen Alpha for Skibidi Toilet, but my fellow Zoomers, we are hypocrites.
- 16 years ago, a video long predating Skibidi Toilet was posted that features G-Man sticking his head out of a latrine and pulling a silly face.
- The video is way more cursed than any of the web series episodes from DaFuq!?Boom! — we were the cringe all along.
It’s easy to rip on Gen Alpha for all the brainrot memes, even if we’re only continuing the never-ending cycle of generational bullying. Then again, Millennials had Vine — maybe they deserve it. But for the Zoomers reading this, we’re no better than the kids of today. We were making, and it pains me to say this, Skibidi Toilet videos back in 2009.
As uncovered by u/ElpacoLuca_Octy on r/HalfLife, in the ye old Garry’s Mod poop days, when corny, fraps-filmed skits were all the rage, one YouTuber put together a video about evil flying toilets… and Hitler running away from a Teletubby. Maybe Zoomers deserve the bullying too.
I was a whopping eight-years-old when it came out.
But the standout moment in the video is when the ominous music kicks in, the camera pans to a toilet, and out pops G-Man pulling a silly face. It’s instantly recognisable as Skibidi Toilet, but this predates the popular YouTube series by 14 years. As so many of the comments now point out, this video is “patient zero”.
What Came First, The Skibidi Or The Toilet?
The question is, did DaFuq!?Boom! rip off Steevn606? Probably not. Consciously copying an obscure video from 2009 with only 35,000 views doesn’t seem likely, but then again, two separate people, over a decade apart, coming up with the exact same awful internet meme, is a wild coincidence to reckon with. It’s like monkeys with typewriters if Shakespeare was a brainrot TikTok compilation. Please take the typewriters (read: Garry’s Mod) away from them.
The version of GM_Construct that this video uses is a decade older than Skibidi Toilet fans.
That being said, u/Neet-owo has a possible explanation, one that isn’t as terrifying as Skibidi Toilet being an inevitable end result of human ingenuity.
“I wonder if the original creator of Skibidi Toilet saw this one day a decade ago, forgot about it, then remembered it again while not remembering where it came from and mistook it for an original thought.” In a roundabout way, it’s possible that Steevn606 is responsible for Skibidi Toilet. Cue the Oppenheimer memes.
- Released
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November 29, 2006
- ESRB
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- Developer(s)
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Facepunch Studios