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I legitimately think meme culture brain rot is actually dumber though. Think about what kind of shit you quoted as a kid and young adult. Beavis and Butthead, Office Space, Cheech and Chong, Pulp Fiction... A lot of it isn't exactly high art but it at least has the standard elements of conflict in fiction, or expresses some vague social commentary, or requires a functional attention span to comprehend a plot, or even synthesize themes.
Skibidi toilet has none of that. It has no point to make. It has no world to build. It's literally just random shapes, colors and noises on a screen. The "episodes" are only a few minutes long and even within that constraint there is nothing resembling continuity at any scale.
I'm gonna hard disagree on you there, Skibidi Toilet actually has incredible worldbuilding. With practically no dialogue, there is a coherent plot that forms. It is still just an escalating war story, so not like a super in depth plot, but there's reoccuring characters, back and forths driven by technical advancement/alliances, and I think you could derive the basic "war and oppression bad" themes from it that you can get from most war stories. That's honestly pretty impressive to achieve purely visually.
It's not high art either, but the shit I was watching as a kid were youtube poops that were literally just "cartoon character says something vulgar and stupid." compared to that, Skibidi Toilet is fine. The only thing I don't understand is how Skibidi as a word got derived from it.
You finally managed to make me look up skibidi toilet and it feels pretty similar to transformers. I don’t care to watch more, but it didn’t seem absent of story.
The minimalist absurdism does say a lot about current society though, no?
This is a pretty broad age range though. I definitely wasn’t quoting office space until like late high school. Are there really that many 17/18 year olds quoting skibidi toilet?
The shit I quoted when I was younger, close to the “skibidi” age was like home star runner and the like. Perhaps not quite as dumb, but still stupid as shit.
I think the algorithms are driving worse engangement, certainly, and profit driven creations are at an all time high rather than just weird shit being made. But newgrounds, addictinggames, hell, ytmnd, were all sort of brainrot
Granted I grew up with some computers in schools in elementary school, and the internet being relatively available in middle school (though things like Google and Wikipedia were just born / in their infancy)