Skibidi Toilet Movie

About

The Skibidi Toilet Movie refers to an upcoming movie based on the YouTube series Skibidi Toilet reportedly being developed by director Michael Bay and former Paramount Pictures President Adam Goodman with the help of Alexey Gerasimov (aka YouTuber DaFuq!?Boom! the creator of Skibidi Toilet). The possible film, and an additional TV series, was announced in July 2024, causing a slew of reactions and memes online.

History

Announcement

On July 24th, 2024, Variety^[1] reported that Skibidi Toilet was set to be developed for TV and film by director Michael Bay and former Paramount Pictures President Adam Goodman. The news was tweeted by the X^[2] / Twitter account @DiscussingFilm on the day, amassing over 95,000 likes in six days (shown below).

Variety's piece was an interview with Adam Goodman who said that Alexey Gerasimov (aka YouTuber DaFuq!?Boom!) is "building something that could be the next Transformers or could be a Marvel universe." Furthermore, Goodman said that Bay was already working closely with Gerasimov "to make sure, if we ever decide to go film or television, that this is kind of lifted beyond just the resources that creators have on the internet."

Online Reactions

Many X users reacted to @DiscussingFilm's viral tweet in late July 2024. For instance, on July 24th, X^[3] user @reevierat joked about the tweet not being from a parody account, gaining over 54,000 likes in six days (shown below).

me checking if this is a parody account: https://t.co/g9hcYRi7jp pic.twitter.com/ezfOxsh1QA

— Reevie (@reevierat) July 24, 2024

Also on July 24th, X^[4] user @NebsGoodTakes quoted the post, saying, "you fucking idiots keep falling for fake discussingfilm accounts it's embarrassing." The user then received a Community Note that corrected their tweet, reading, "This was indeed posted by the real DiscussingFilm X page." The tweet received over 92,000 likes in six days (shown below).

Reactions surfaced on other social platforms as well. For instance, on July 24th, 2024, Redditor^[5] TheHENOOB shared @DiscussingFilm's tweet to /r/gmod, gaining over 2,100 upvotes in six days.

On July 25th, 2024, TikToker^[6] @violentvirasbiggestfan posted a video that joked about the Skibidi Toilet movie getting made over other movies, gaining over 1.2 million plays and 176,900 likes in five days (shown below).

Copyright Discourse

Notable posts following the announcement questioned licensing agreements and copyright strikes concerning Valve and Garry's Mod (GMod) which were used to render the Skibidi Toilet animations. For instance, on July 24th, 2024, X^[7] user @RealYouTubeKids wrote, "How the fuck would you even make a Skibidi Toilet movie without some massive licensing agreement from Valve. The main bad guy is literally just the G-man’s Head from Half-Life 2," gaining over 10,000 likes in six days (shown below).

Developments

Skibidi Toilet DMCA Takedown

The Skibidi Toilet DMCA Takedown refers to a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown sent by DaFuq!?Boom!, the creator of the digital series Skibidi Toilet, to Garry’s Mod (GMod), alleging unauthorized use of copyrighted assets. The DMCA claim was revealed by Garry Newman in late July 2024, developer of the independent physics sandbox game, on the Garry’s Mod s&box Discord server. Online, numerous netizens criticized the takedown notice, as the series was created using assets from GMod.

Various Reactions

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