Alexey Gerasimov's "Skibidi Toilet" series continues to cement itself with the Gen Alpha as the trend racked up 65 billion views on YouTube alone.
One of the biggest online phenomena of the year, "Skibidi Toilet" videos from Gerasimov's channel, DaFuq!?Boom!, even sometimes outperform videos from the biggest YouTuber MrBeast.
The trend spreads across other platforms like TikTok as videos tagged with "Skibidi Toilet" have been viewed more than 15.3 million times.
As in the nature of viral memes, "Skibidi Toilet" inspired other trending memes like the now infamous "Sticking Your Gyatt for the Rizzler" song that drew concerned looks from older Gen Zs.
Maddy Buxton, culture and trends manager at YouTube, told the Washington Post that the became "one of the first memes that we've seen take off with Gen Alpha."
The Gen Alpha includes people born from 2010 up to the present and represents almost 2 billion of the population by 2025.
What are the Skibidi Toilet Videos?
Told in short 60-second videos, the "Skibidi Toilet" is a web series that tells the war between the singing toilet creatures aimed for world domination and suited individuals with cameras for heads.
Gerasimov released the first video of the series in February this year. The videos were made by Source Filmmaker, a popular software to create Team Fortress 2 clips back in its prime.
The videos are reminiscent of Garry's Mod videos that used to be popular with Gen Z in the early 2000s. Many of the characters used were made up of assets from Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike: Source.
Most of the episodes were accompanied by a remix of "Give It to Me" by Timbaland and Biser King's "Dom Dom Yes Yes."
As of writing, the DaFuq!?Boom! channel has 36.3 million subscribers and has more than 14 billion views.
Gen Alpha Trends: Impact and Significance
While older generations may be concerned about the rise of seemingly absurd content among younger people, Buxton assured that this was how internet trends naturally grow, albeit at a much faster rate.
The lack of dialogue in the series only further boosted its appeal to viewers no matter their origin and language.
More popular channels, like Game Theory, only further expand the meme's influence to a wider audience and create a bigger community to spread it.
Ryan Broderick, a journalist and content creator, said older generations may not understand the appeal of it as the trend is an example of "late-stage internet" that bases itself on previous trends.
