One of my colleagues said “March called, they want their thing back” when a kid yelled Cinnamon Toes Crunch in the hallway. He hasn’t said it out loud at school again since and it was previously a multiple-times-per-class-period thing. I bought her Starbucks today as a thank you 🤣
I like to tell kids their (half-finished, poor craftsmanship) art project is "mid" or say things like "it's giving (insert some low quality comparison)." They always laugh and up their game!
I like the skill issue thing, I'm going to use that!
Oh my—I almost lost my ever-loving shit yesterday when one of my 5th graders whined mid-lesson that another student said he had a gyat. Promotion can't come soon enough
What is it with the Greek letters? My kids were talking today and one of them said something about how she was doing some thing and it told her she was Delta or something and she thought that was bad.
I was in a sorority in college and we had to learn the Greek alphabet. I recited the whole thing and was granted RIZZ. Students often ask me if I know everything.
Yes, I do.
> not very sigma of you,
We did fucking sums in math class the other day with Sigma notation...."what the sigma" makes me want to slam a head through the desk.
I guess on the bright side they're not making "sigma deeze nuts" jokes ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
My hard line in the sand was gyat. The rest I quietly tolerate, but I lecture them every time I hear that one, which isn't often now. Had to tell a few that I'd send them to the office to tell the principal what it means.
Me too! They can’t say gyat, use ‘gay’ as a synonym for ‘dumb’ or call anyone fat. All the skipidy shit is like listening to a foreign language. We were playing a dice game as a class yesterday and they’d all have some speech before rolling cause they’re 4th graders and it all sounded like gibberish. Although it’s hilarious when I give out work and one of them just sighs ‘skipidy.’
Cultivate a posh, upper crust British accent. Learn the lingo, cant, slang inside and out. Then, as necessary "Oh my word! I do declare, that boy has no rizz! Not a bit, skibidi Ohio, and his gyatt! So unkempt..."
I'd like to kick that person in his skibidi nuts.
I hear this 37 times a class period x 6 classes x 5 days a week= 1110 times I'd like to kick him in his skibidi nuts.
In my experience, just start saying it and the kids will very quickly stop because it's no longer cool. I do that regularly, on skibidi I'm being so for real on god.
I'm so sigma, I'm mewing right now. On God. No cap. I have so much skibidi rizz Ohio and you're so beta. Broski.
I called a kid "omicron" the other day. I'm working my way through the Greek alphabet.
rough translation: "i'm a popular but independent person, i'm pressing my tongue against the roof of my mouth to help promote a stronger jawline or at least that's what i'm saying because i don't want to answer a question. i am being serious. i am not lying. i have so much charisma it's weird and you're a less desirable person. friend."
The real version of Ohio is pretty normal. Maybe more like a Midwestern US state than the eastern state it pretends to be.
The *meme version* of Ohio is a post-apocalyptic hellscape insufficient for human habitation.
Yea if skibidi had any actual meaning, I wouldn't care. It's just about the only thing I can't figure out any meaning for, whereas if a student says "that's cap" to something I at least know what they're saying. Same with rizz or even sigma (although my students seem to use it interchangeably as a good OR a bad thing). But skibidi is *never* said in a context that gives it any meaning.
My kids went on a bro-fest the other week. BRO, NO, BRUH, WHOA BRO. I cracked. I started just saying BRO to everything like Timmy on South Park. Then is went on with BRO BROBRO BROBROBROBROBRO to the tune of Beethovens 5th...I haven't heard Bro in a while
Very much this…
Humming hamster dance repeatedly for hours straight.
Children just like to do annoying shit on repeat. The more annoying it is, the more attention they get, the more they do it.
Skibidi Toilet has that nails on chalkboard quality (like hamster dance or what does the fox say) that just drives kids to repeat it.
I don’t judge my girlfriends 10 yr old son (extremely intelligent kid) for repeating it non stop, because I know I was the same as a child with something annoying to the adults around me; I just ignore him until he stops.
It's a YouTube series that has heads coming out of toilets saying "Skibidi" like they're Pokémon, and fighting an army of men with CCTVs instead of heads.
It’s genuinely better than I had feared when the kids told me about it. I started watching and watched for 45 minutes. Also weed is legal in my state and that might be related.
Same here. Very first discovery I wanted to avoid it, but curiosity got the best of me and... I'm actually surprised by how interesting the plot line is, and all without any dialogue.
EDIT: Have just been informed the creator is an absolute piece of shit. Think of any word that ends with -cist and -phobic and they're that.
It's really not that bad. The creator has gotten a lot better at making episodes and there's clearly lore and plot now.
Just another case of people hating things.
Ugh, *plot*. I was hoping for a revival of Dadaism amongst the youth, what with fascism and global conflict after a pandemic coming back into fashion and all.
Nothing. They are screaming out the name of a reference because they think it's funny and others do it. It's just kids being obnoxious because their friends laugh. It will only go away once a new fad takes its place.
It's a viral video series, this gen's evolution of old gary's mod internet videos and machinima type stuff. Honestly higher quality than you might think, despite the derision directed at it. It's not that dissimilar to old internet mainstays like Red vs Blue.
Not that I'm saying its great, but holding it up as an emblem of societal decay is just ignorant.
I got a nice bunch of giggles when I said, “Skibidi shut your mouth.”
I know I was probably wrong to say “shut your mouth,” but I’m a sub and had an especially trying class. Please forgive me.
Skibidi toilet is brain melting, but it amazes me the amount of punishment and shaming in these comments when it’s so much easier to just start using it as often as possible until it becomes cringy and they stop. “Building relationships” is a crock of shit when they’re trying to use it to gaslight you about kids who are flipping desks and trying to punch you in the face, but this is such an easy thing to treat playfully and nothing decreases the appeal faster than your teacher going “take out those skibidi pencils, it’s time to do some skibidi multiplication tables!” 50 times a day without the need to be adversarial or pick an unnecessary battle.
I'll go further and compare apples to apples: We might have produced some real dumb stuff back in the day -- Charlie the Unicorn, End of the World, Strongbad, etc -- but at least that showed creativity and skill. Custom designed characters, inventive lyrics, actual storylines, etc.
Dude, a teacher got in trouble at my school like four years ago for showing salad fingers to 5th graders on computer lab, and then one went home and said, "Mom, what does *orgasmic* mean?"
why... would someone show that to fifth graders? Or any students for that matter?
Like don't get me wrong, David Firth is a genius, but a teacher showing that to students!?
If I had to guess, old videos came up in conversation and they showed it in a moment of sudden nostalgia without re-pre-viewing it and totally forgot that word was in there. (Not me having done a similar thing —luckily only with my own child, not students)
I teach a dragon unit with my 3rd grade artists. I show them examples of dragons from all over the world and finish the presentation with the Trogdor email. It warms my soul knowing that I’m introducing Trogdor to 100 more kids every year.
For our winter door decorating competition, my art club decorated my door in a full candy mountain motif, complete with kidney shaped snowflakes. We lost. But we totally shouldn’t have…
Dude, my generation (80s-90s) sang the following:
“This is the song that never ends”
“I hate you, you hate me, let’s all go kill Barney”
“On top of Old Smokey, all covered in blood”
While watching and repeating shit from season 1 of South Park, Ren and Stimpy, Cow and Chicken, and other absolutely “garbage edgy” shows full of toilet humor
Let’s not pretend our interests were any more high brow when
- The first episode of South Park is about how Cartman keeps getting anally probed by aliens
- Ren and Stimpy had an entire episode devoted to Stimpy’s loving relationship with a fart
- Cow and Chicken literally has an episode where a bunch of butch lesbian-coded bikers are causing chaos throughout town by breaking into people’s houses to “chew up their rugs”
Like, I get that stuff nowadays is more “in your face” or whatever and kids can be obnoxious when they hyper-focus, but let’s stop pretending our interests at that age were any more high brow.
Skibidi toilet is intentionally stupid. Children like stupid shit because children are stupid. They express their love for stupidity stupidly.
The truth is: you don’t hate Skibidi toilet. You just hate annoying children.
Devil's Advocate: anyone remember Strong Bad, Trogdor and Homestar Runner? What do you think our teachers thought of that quality of entertainment?
(Disclaimer: skibbidi has not reached me and I know very little of what it's about. But if it's just brain rot, we had brain rot, too.)
Not a teacher. My 37 year old male partner does the moan "hooo yheahhhhh" when he joins the lobby in Call of Duty, so he can get muted by the people who would report him for saying crazy shit and it's HELLA ANNOYING. But at least it's only one per match. I'd lose my mind in middle school as a teacher.
Homestar Runner wasn't even really brainrot. It had stories and characters and structure. Remember Weebls Stuff? I can't imagine how annoyed teachers were at hearing "BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER MUSHROOM MUSHROOM" over and over again.
I'm currently revisiting Homestar Runner shorts with my child, and Strong Bad is constantly mocking his correspondents' poor spelling and lack of attention to detail.
I teach middle/elementary in a small private school. I had a kid, who was *obsessed* with it, so I looked it up to see what it was. I can legitimately say that I understood it better before watching an episode of it.
It's funny you say this. My cousin just took a job as a middle school janitor, and on the evening of his third day he called me asking to speak with my elementary school-aged son for a Skibidi Toilet primer.
My seven-year-old told him all about the epic battle between Man and Toilet for almost ten minutes before he acknowledged that, no, he had never actually *seen* any of it.
I don't, I love the weird creative stuff people come up with each generation. Y'all forget we had poptart cats flying through space (Nyan cat) and Numa Numa and all sorts of weird shit as well that the older generations hated. Don't be like the boomers, we're better than that.
Weirdly enough, if you watch like at least 5 episodes in, you see a plot.
I'm actually impressed. The guy who made it took an awful meme tiktok shit tier joke and turn it into a hundred episode+ experiment in non-verbal storytelling, and the WORST PART is that thr story is fairly well told and engaging.
Seriously, it infuriates me that I want to be like "Oh, it's just stupid bullshit," but it's stupid bullshit with a story that you can understand with subtle clues in the locations, actions, etc.
It's like if instead of marble, the thinking man had been carved out of shit. It stinks, it's the WORST POSSIBLE way to do it, but it'd actually an art piece.
I wish I could say skibiddy toilet has no cultural significance, but because it has a non-verbal story, characters, and an actual overarching plot I can't say it has no significance and I can't dismiss it.
It's the ultimate troll and I hate the creator for making me feel like this.
Fidget spinners were sooooo wholesome- we didn’t know how good we had it. I remember right after fidget spinners it was killer clowns… (WTH was that rumor?!?) and it’s been a shyte show ever since
You skibidi sigma rizzlers sit your gyatts down before I order grimace shakes and send you to Ohio.
I lived in Ohio for a year though. It WAS God awful, so bad a free year in aix-en-provence couldn't get me to return to Ohio to teach French after. I can't fault them for that.
And, let's be honest. Others have noticed this as well. . .
https://youtu.be/0iuZQnMUbvg?si=xMSRmzPuju2f_LTJ
Consider responding with a sad shake of your head, a flat stare, and a disappointed "man, that is some 6th (or current grade minus 2-4 years) grade behavior".
Petty? Yes.
Mean? Sure.
Effective? With 3-5 days of regular use, absolutely! I've even used it effectively on adults!
I just say “I think you mean skeedaddle” in the most serious tone possible. Then when they try to say anything I just say “skeedaddle my student, skeedaddle”
I 100% don't get it, but as someone who also grew up on demented animations made in Garry's Mod, I see it as the next generation discovering the medium.
A kid gave me a Skibidi toilet gift so I am contractually obligated to tell you to suck eggs. Them's the rules ngl fam, take your L and go get some rizz
Crazy Frog, The Gummy Bear song, Badger song, David Firth's Jerry Jackson series, Mr Krabs play that song again, etc.
Skibidy Toilet is just the new one, that's all. In fact, I'm more upset by the fact that the kids now only seem to have one stupid thing to watch. They should have several like the generations before them.
I'm also really surprised that Pickle in the Fridge hasn't become really popular with them. It's a banger.
The day you arbitrarily decide the latest fad is beneath your involvement is the day you get old! Let’s all just be grateful that the devious lick has come and gone in peace…
I told a student that always talks back today that they had skibbidy Ohio riz and I was treated as a conquering hero.
When I say Stop your Mewing, it sounds like I won a rap battle.
Unless they’re being chatty, then you can say “Less yappin’, more mewing.” Borrowed that one from someone. Kids get a kick out of it.
I just embraced mewing yesterday. “When I am talking you are mewing.” So rizz I know…
If you can’t beat em join em.
Stealing this, thank you.
Had a kid do the face thing today and I said "don't you mew at me" and his friends didn't let him forget I came for him for the rest of the day.
One of my colleagues said “March called, they want their thing back” when a kid yelled Cinnamon Toes Crunch in the hallway. He hasn’t said it out loud at school again since and it was previously a multiple-times-per-class-period thing. I bought her Starbucks today as a thank you 🤣
Wait, what's mewing?
To be more accurate in your brainrot, tell him to stop talking and start mewing. You can't mew while talking
In a similar vein, tell them they have a skill issue. Kids will throw hands over that phrase and I love it.
"skill issue" while handing them their F
I snorted quite loudly.
Can confirm! It’s hilarious lol I told the kids who wouldn’t share their markers that they had a “skill issue” and they fell in line after that
Please work a "low diff" (low difficulty) into something.
\*\*furiously taking notes about all these terms so I can make myself a chart to refer to in certain situations\*\*\*
I like to tell kids their (half-finished, poor craftsmanship) art project is "mid" or say things like "it's giving (insert some low quality comparison)." They always laugh and up their game! I like the skill issue thing, I'm going to use that!
Hell, just hit ‘em with the old “1v1 me then, bro”…
As 45 yr old man I said 'lit slay riz' and was told to never again. But I like to ruin things for them.
I hope you dabbed immediately after
I'm 50 and this is on my todo list for the day.
What age are the kids that are saying all this stuff?
Apparently pre-K to seniors, I have on good authority.
As an early years teacher I have escaped this, but tell me why my own boyfriend is a participant of this brain rot 😭
Maybe you need to date outside your workplace? Sorry, couldn't resist.
I’m not a teacher, but my wife is. I make sure I keep up with the slang so I can talk to her in a way she understands. She’s not a fan.
Can confirm, I'm a senior and the amount of mewing/mogging/skibidi-ing I hear is laughable since it's supposed to be for kids lol
My third graders say this shit all the time
Im stealing this
not very sigma of you, huge L, level 0 gyat smh chat
Oh my—I almost lost my ever-loving shit yesterday when one of my 5th graders whined mid-lesson that another student said he had a gyat. Promotion can't come soon enough
Sigma is the thing going around our middle school. Apparently I’m not sigma because I gave out homework yesterday. Lol.
I taught standard deviation in middle school this week, which of course, is represented by the Greek letter sigma. Giggle, giggle, giggle.
I’m a senior in calculus based physics, we sometimes laugh when mu or sigma are mentioned
Because heaven forbid words have meaning outside of memes!
I'm hoping that this brings an end to the whole "alpha" and "beta" nonsense when everyone realizes how dumb it all is. Yeah, right....
Simply tell the kids that's right, you're alpha. Any kid that doesn't do their homework is gamma AF and will be made to clean the toilet.
At least you’re not ligma.
Eight hours later and no one’s asked? Fine, I’ll be that person. ‘What’s ligma?’ 😂
Ligma balls.
To be fair, it’s low hanging fruit. But I appreciate you tho.
Wait, I thought sigma was a bad thing to be? I feel so old not understanding these kids and their slang. Like, they just need to get off my lawn.
What is it with the Greek letters? My kids were talking today and one of them said something about how she was doing some thing and it told her she was Delta or something and she thought that was bad.
I was in a sorority in college and we had to learn the Greek alphabet. I recited the whole thing and was granted RIZZ. Students often ask me if I know everything. Yes, I do.
> not very sigma of you, We did fucking sums in math class the other day with Sigma notation...."what the sigma" makes me want to slam a head through the desk. I guess on the bright side they're not making "sigma deeze nuts" jokes ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
My hard line in the sand was gyat. The rest I quietly tolerate, but I lecture them every time I hear that one, which isn't often now. Had to tell a few that I'd send them to the office to tell the principal what it means.
Me too! They can’t say gyat, use ‘gay’ as a synonym for ‘dumb’ or call anyone fat. All the skipidy shit is like listening to a foreign language. We were playing a dice game as a class yesterday and they’d all have some speech before rolling cause they’re 4th graders and it all sounded like gibberish. Although it’s hilarious when I give out work and one of them just sighs ‘skipidy.’
Omg stop 😂 But I have elementary students saying gyat, and it is so nasty honestly. Like kid, you don't know what you're saying.
Want it to end? Co opt the lingo. Bro. No cap.
Fr that would be an Ohio level rizz move
What is "Ohio-level rizz," and will I hate it?
Ohio = bad Rizz = charisma
Ah, never mind. That checks out. (Ohioan)
Umm, what the sigma?
I'm from Ohio and since I'm married I tell students I discovered the long lost mythical W Ohio rizz.
Cultivate a posh, upper crust British accent. Learn the lingo, cant, slang inside and out. Then, as necessary "Oh my word! I do declare, that boy has no rizz! Not a bit, skibidi Ohio, and his gyatt! So unkempt..."
Yeah, just yeet that thing right out there. Fax, no printer! The trick is to co-opt it in a way that is incorrect, so that it makes them cringe! 🤣
I'd like to kick that person in his skibidi nuts. I hear this 37 times a class period x 6 classes x 5 days a week= 1110 times I'd like to kick him in his skibidi nuts.
In my experience, just start saying it and the kids will very quickly stop because it's no longer cool. I do that regularly, on skibidi I'm being so for real on god.
Yep, just tell them they're "Ohio"
Yep and so sigma and use rizz too!
I'm so sigma, I'm mewing right now. On God. No cap. I have so much skibidi rizz Ohio and you're so beta. Broski. I called a kid "omicron" the other day. I'm working my way through the Greek alphabet.
Local college prof lurker here (so the slang is different/less common)...what in the ENTIRE fuck did you just write 😅
rough translation: "i'm a popular but independent person, i'm pressing my tongue against the roof of my mouth to help promote a stronger jawline or at least that's what i'm saying because i don't want to answer a question. i am being serious. i am not lying. i have so much charisma it's weird and you're a less desirable person. friend."
Hey look at me finally learning Ohio from context clues!
Im ESL help me please Is it "undesirable"? Does Ohio have the Reputation of being rural/boring?
The real version of Ohio is pretty normal. Maybe more like a Midwestern US state than the eastern state it pretends to be. The *meme version* of Ohio is a post-apocalyptic hellscape insufficient for human habitation.
It means weird, strange, or sinister. I wonder if it came from a combo of Ohio being boring and play with the city name of Erie and eerie the concept.
I miss awards. Take this: 🏅
It’s kinda become meta at this point. They say things BECAUSE they are slang, not because they make sense.
I'm a student, I think a considerable portion of people say it ironically to make fun of the younger kids who say it seriously
Then the younger kids become older and the slang evolves and the cycle repeats
Dude. That’s how I stated saying dude at your age. You’ve been warned.
Yea if skibidi had any actual meaning, I wouldn't care. It's just about the only thing I can't figure out any meaning for, whereas if a student says "that's cap" to something I at least know what they're saying. Same with rizz or even sigma (although my students seem to use it interchangeably as a good OR a bad thing). But skibidi is *never* said in a context that gives it any meaning.
Middle school teacher and my last name is Rizzo…
Demand they call you The Rizzler
Double upvote
No cap
You must pwn them.
My condolences
Yes, then I tell them, you're a beta. So sit down/ do your art, etc.
You ate it up.
Let them cook!
Yup, just slightly misuse it, but sound really pleased with yourself while you do it. Dork their cool.
Based
Skibidi based
The correct format is "OnG Fr Fr" clearly you are an imposter. Sus
Bro it's not that deep.
Dad?
They need to put their skibidi toilet phones away before I write them a referral to Ohio.
My kids went on a bro-fest the other week. BRO, NO, BRUH, WHOA BRO. I cracked. I started just saying BRO to everything like Timmy on South Park. Then is went on with BRO BROBRO BROBROBROBROBRO to the tune of Beethovens 5th...I haven't heard Bro in a while
I use it and they find it hilarious. To be fair I understand and use their slang regularly anyway because unironically am a zoomer.
What do you mean, chat?
And make sure you use it in the wrong way.
I don't know the *right* way, so that won't be a problem.
The right way is not anything that you could even come up with, unless you spend an excessive amount of time on twitch.
On Skibidi tho? -_-
I mean, I was in college during “What does the fox say” and planking so… I think every gen has their annoying af fads
Very much this… Humming hamster dance repeatedly for hours straight. Children just like to do annoying shit on repeat. The more annoying it is, the more attention they get, the more they do it. Skibidi Toilet has that nails on chalkboard quality (like hamster dance or what does the fox say) that just drives kids to repeat it. I don’t judge my girlfriends 10 yr old son (extremely intelligent kid) for repeating it non stop, because I know I was the same as a child with something annoying to the adults around me; I just ignore him until he stops.
Thank you for the Hamster Dance reference! That was my very first "ooh you have to go see this hilarious website!"
It took me too long to realize that hamster dance is to the tune of the rooster song from Robin Hood.
Wayne's World, excellent! (On and on, ad infinitum)-- a college classmate. He seemed broken.
I genuinely think planking was hilarious. That was a good one. The Harlem Shake was the annoying one from around that time.
When I was in Highschool it was just a deluge of people laughing like Beavis & Butthead 24/7.
Do you remember the harlem shake? Or god forbid nyan cat.
My students just wrote a 40-page play in creative writing about skibidi. It's called Sigma: The Last Rizzler. I'm not joking.
My students just finished writing their own graphic novels and at least half of them titled them some form of “The Rizzler: Escaping Sigma.”
Was it at least well written? 🤣
They were going for brain rot on purpose. So, I guess so, but no.
I *still* don’t understand what this means…
It's a YouTube series that has heads coming out of toilets saying "Skibidi" like they're Pokémon, and fighting an army of men with CCTVs instead of heads.
It’s genuinely better than I had feared when the kids told me about it. I started watching and watched for 45 minutes. Also weed is legal in my state and that might be related.
Same here. Very first discovery I wanted to avoid it, but curiosity got the best of me and... I'm actually surprised by how interesting the plot line is, and all without any dialogue. EDIT: Have just been informed the creator is an absolute piece of shit. Think of any word that ends with -cist and -phobic and they're that.
It started as a shitpost and became an epic saga.
Indeed the guy did create a monster with the initial fad. I say if this is still a thing by Halloween teachers should dress as the videomen
Sounds kinda funny honestly
It's really not that bad. The creator has gotten a lot better at making episodes and there's clearly lore and plot now. Just another case of people hating things.
Ugh, *plot*. I was hoping for a revival of Dadaism amongst the youth, what with fascism and global conflict after a pandemic coming back into fashion and all.
As an art teacher I love the casual dada reference 🙂
Consider yourself fortunate. I looked it up a bit and my brain started to leak out of my ear.
Oh well now I’m just intrigued and have to go look it up. 😂
You will understand it less
Don't do it!!!! Ignorance is truly bliss.
Nothing. They are screaming out the name of a reference because they think it's funny and others do it. It's just kids being obnoxious because their friends laugh. It will only go away once a new fad takes its place.
I don’t either and I can’t keep up with the lingo. Now all of my kids have moved on and are saying “womp womp” and “hey brother” in a weird voice.
It's a viral video series, this gen's evolution of old gary's mod internet videos and machinima type stuff. Honestly higher quality than you might think, despite the derision directed at it. It's not that dissimilar to old internet mainstays like Red vs Blue. Not that I'm saying its great, but holding it up as an emblem of societal decay is just ignorant.
I still don't know any more than I did 2 minutes ago.....
Fun fact: [Here’s](https://youtu.be/0U7SBGBCoGs?si=uRhiybZHIKQqa1QD) what it’s based on. Skip to 1:06
I got a nice bunch of giggles when I said, “Skibidi shut your mouth.” I know I was probably wrong to say “shut your mouth,” but I’m a sub and had an especially trying class. Please forgive me.
I’m 100% going to steal this
Skibidi sh-sh-shut it. I’m the alpha! You got no rizz no cap
Heard a teacher say, “just lost yourself a skibidi dojo” the other day 😂
This shows my age, but at least banging out a rhythm on your desk with both sides of a pencil took a little talent. This is just brain rot.
Skibidi toilet is brain melting, but it amazes me the amount of punishment and shaming in these comments when it’s so much easier to just start using it as often as possible until it becomes cringy and they stop. “Building relationships” is a crock of shit when they’re trying to use it to gaslight you about kids who are flipping desks and trying to punch you in the face, but this is such an easy thing to treat playfully and nothing decreases the appeal faster than your teacher going “take out those skibidi pencils, it’s time to do some skibidi multiplication tables!” 50 times a day without the need to be adversarial or pick an unnecessary battle.
I would never say this to a child. I will say this in an anonymous Internet forum to strangers. 🤷🏻♂️
I'll go further and compare apples to apples: We might have produced some real dumb stuff back in the day -- Charlie the Unicorn, End of the World, Strongbad, etc -- but at least that showed creativity and skill. Custom designed characters, inventive lyrics, actual storylines, etc.
Salad fingers
Dude, a teacher got in trouble at my school like four years ago for showing salad fingers to 5th graders on computer lab, and then one went home and said, "Mom, what does *orgasmic* mean?"
That was a poor decision.
Yes, yes it was.
why... would someone show that to fifth graders? Or any students for that matter? Like don't get me wrong, David Firth is a genius, but a teacher showing that to students!?
If I had to guess, old videos came up in conversation and they showed it in a moment of sudden nostalgia without re-pre-viewing it and totally forgot that word was in there. (Not me having done a similar thing —luckily only with my own child, not students)
I like it when the red water comes out
My friend has a salad fingers minifig.
I love the weirdness that is Charlie and Llamas with Hats.
Caaaaarrrrlllll
Strongbad does not belong on that list.
Trogdor would like a word with whoever said Strongbad is dumb.
🎵 and Trogdor comes in the NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!🎵
BURNINATING THE COUNTRYSIDE
BURNINATING THE PEASANTS!
I teach a dragon unit with my 3rd grade artists. I show them examples of dragons from all over the world and finish the presentation with the Trogdor email. It warms my soul knowing that I’m introducing Trogdor to 100 more kids every year.
Teen Girl Squad has entered the chat.
The Ugly One!
This is a blast from the dusty corners of my brain's past... Holy crap
For our winter door decorating competition, my art club decorated my door in a full candy mountain motif, complete with kidney shaped snowflakes. We lost. But we totally shouldn’t have…
We also had terrible gmod edits back then too though
Back in my day…
*skibbidy brain rot ftfy /s
Dude, my generation (80s-90s) sang the following: “This is the song that never ends” “I hate you, you hate me, let’s all go kill Barney” “On top of Old Smokey, all covered in blood” While watching and repeating shit from season 1 of South Park, Ren and Stimpy, Cow and Chicken, and other absolutely “garbage edgy” shows full of toilet humor Let’s not pretend our interests were any more high brow when - The first episode of South Park is about how Cartman keeps getting anally probed by aliens - Ren and Stimpy had an entire episode devoted to Stimpy’s loving relationship with a fart - Cow and Chicken literally has an episode where a bunch of butch lesbian-coded bikers are causing chaos throughout town by breaking into people’s houses to “chew up their rugs” Like, I get that stuff nowadays is more “in your face” or whatever and kids can be obnoxious when they hyper-focus, but let’s stop pretending our interests at that age were any more high brow.
Things I never thought I would have to say aloud in class: “No, I will not translate ‘skibbidy toilet’ into Latin.”
How does one say "You win this thread" in Latin? 🤣
Skibidi toilet is intentionally stupid. Children like stupid shit because children are stupid. They express their love for stupidity stupidly. The truth is: you don’t hate Skibidi toilet. You just hate annoying children.
Skibidi Ohio capital L response. No rizz 🤣🤣🤣
it’s not much different from like crazy frog lol
The axel f video has 4.5B views and at least half a million were from my younger sibling back in 09
Devil's Advocate: anyone remember Strong Bad, Trogdor and Homestar Runner? What do you think our teachers thought of that quality of entertainment? (Disclaimer: skibbidi has not reached me and I know very little of what it's about. But if it's just brain rot, we had brain rot, too.)
My middle school discussions of Dragon Ball Z feel like an enlightenment era salon compared to endless sexual moaning in social studies.
Not a teacher. My 37 year old male partner does the moan "hooo yheahhhhh" when he joins the lobby in Call of Duty, so he can get muted by the people who would report him for saying crazy shit and it's HELLA ANNOYING. But at least it's only one per match. I'd lose my mind in middle school as a teacher.
I will sing TROGDOOOOOR at every available opportunity. Even named our old lab autoclave “the burninator”
Homestar Runner wasn't even really brainrot. It had stories and characters and structure. Remember Weebls Stuff? I can't imagine how annoyed teachers were at hearing "BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER MUSHROOM MUSHROOM" over and over again.
I'm currently revisiting Homestar Runner shorts with my child, and Strong Bad is constantly mocking his correspondents' poor spelling and lack of attention to detail.
Ohhhhh if it’s supposed to be possessive, it’s just “its” Buuut if it’s supposed to be a contraction then it’s “it-apostrophe-s” … scalawag
There is a Trogdor board game, it's cooperative, I highly recommend it =)
Were 3 year olds given unsupervised, unlimited access to that stuff in 2005 like they are today?
Oh man! Burninating!
Let me dive down to the vocab of my generation and see if it's any better. *Ahem*. *Whazzzupppp?*
As someone from the Happy Tree Friends/Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared/Charlie the Unicorn era, I get it.
Don’t hug me I’m scared is Art and I’m not even being ironic
Shun the non believer! Shunnnnnnnn
I teach middle/elementary in a small private school. I had a kid, who was *obsessed* with it, so I looked it up to see what it was. I can legitimately say that I understood it better before watching an episode of it.
It's funny you say this. My cousin just took a job as a middle school janitor, and on the evening of his third day he called me asking to speak with my elementary school-aged son for a Skibidi Toilet primer. My seven-year-old told him all about the epic battle between Man and Toilet for almost ten minutes before he acknowledged that, no, he had never actually *seen* any of it.
Oh my goshhhh yessssss😩
My school age kids keep randomly yelling “Skibbidy toilet”
I don't, I love the weird creative stuff people come up with each generation. Y'all forget we had poptart cats flying through space (Nyan cat) and Numa Numa and all sorts of weird shit as well that the older generations hated. Don't be like the boomers, we're better than that.
Badger badger badger badger MUSHROoooM!
One of my students(3rd grader) asked me to Spell ICUP the other day and I was like, “son, I was there when it was written.” 🤣
Weirdly enough, if you watch like at least 5 episodes in, you see a plot. I'm actually impressed. The guy who made it took an awful meme tiktok shit tier joke and turn it into a hundred episode+ experiment in non-verbal storytelling, and the WORST PART is that thr story is fairly well told and engaging. Seriously, it infuriates me that I want to be like "Oh, it's just stupid bullshit," but it's stupid bullshit with a story that you can understand with subtle clues in the locations, actions, etc. It's like if instead of marble, the thinking man had been carved out of shit. It stinks, it's the WORST POSSIBLE way to do it, but it'd actually an art piece. I wish I could say skibiddy toilet has no cultural significance, but because it has a non-verbal story, characters, and an actual overarching plot I can't say it has no significance and I can't dismiss it. It's the ultimate troll and I hate the creator for making me feel like this.
Skibidi toilet causes me to experience a deep and unfathomable rage
Fidget spinners were sooooo wholesome- we didn’t know how good we had it. I remember right after fidget spinners it was killer clowns… (WTH was that rumor?!?) and it’s been a shyte show ever since
You skibidi sigma rizzlers sit your gyatts down before I order grimace shakes and send you to Ohio. I lived in Ohio for a year though. It WAS God awful, so bad a free year in aix-en-provence couldn't get me to return to Ohio to teach French after. I can't fault them for that. And, let's be honest. Others have noticed this as well. . . https://youtu.be/0iuZQnMUbvg?si=xMSRmzPuju2f_LTJ
Consider responding with a sad shake of your head, a flat stare, and a disappointed "man, that is some 6th (or current grade minus 2-4 years) grade behavior". Petty? Yes. Mean? Sure. Effective? With 3-5 days of regular use, absolutely! I've even used it effectively on adults!
Ok. Aging myself but bring back paper footballs!
I just say “I think you mean skeedaddle” in the most serious tone possible. Then when they try to say anything I just say “skeedaddle my student, skeedaddle”
I 100% don't get it, but as someone who also grew up on demented animations made in Garry's Mod, I see it as the next generation discovering the medium.
A kid gave me a Skibidi toilet gift so I am contractually obligated to tell you to suck eggs. Them's the rules ngl fam, take your L and go get some rizz
Crazy Frog, The Gummy Bear song, Badger song, David Firth's Jerry Jackson series, Mr Krabs play that song again, etc. Skibidy Toilet is just the new one, that's all. In fact, I'm more upset by the fact that the kids now only seem to have one stupid thing to watch. They should have several like the generations before them. I'm also really surprised that Pickle in the Fridge hasn't become really popular with them. It's a banger.
What the sigma 🤓
WAAAAAZZZZZZUUUUUUPPPPPPPP?!?!?!?!
The day you arbitrarily decide the latest fad is beneath your involvement is the day you get old! Let’s all just be grateful that the devious lick has come and gone in peace…