There are things that philosophers have never dreamed of. An example would be the area of the Internet where children watch a series about a head in a toilet that sings and attacks. The YouTube phenomenon has finally been noticed not only by parents of early school-age children (hands up, who has heard the song “Skibidi toilet goni mnie” hummed by a child after returning from school?), but also by the Great World of Cinema.
“Skibidi Toilet” will hit cinemas
Michael Bay himself has become interested in Internet production. The director and producer has so far focused on more serious, high-budget ideas. It was thanks to him that we could watch “Armageddon”, “Bad Boys” and the entire “Transformers” series on cinema screens years ago. Bay is not only a well-known director, but also a producer of recent cinema hits (and duds, but you know – everyone has their own). For example, we owe him a long list of horror films (“A Quiet Place”, “The Purge”, “A Nightmare on Elm Street”, “Friday the 13th”).
However, something must have happened in the life of Michael Bay, who, together with Adam Goodman, former head of Paramount Pictures, announced in a Variety podcast that they would deal with the Internet phenomenon known as “Skibidi Toilet”.
We are in the process of determining a television format and in early determinations of a theatrical format, Goodman said, adding that Bay will direct.
This news will undoubtedly please, above all, children who are of early primary school age. This group is the most frequent recipient of “Skibidi Toilet”, an internet phenomenon about Gordon Freeman’s head from the game “Half Life” sticking out of a toilet, initiated by Georgian Alexey Gerasimov. It started with a short recording, in which a rotating and singing head sticks out of a not particularly clean toilet. And no, it’s not over yet, because there are many such toilets, they form an army and want to destroy humanity. This humanity is not alone in the fight, however, because it is helped by, for example, a giga-man with a speaker instead of a head or a camera. In short – things are happening.
Gerasimov’s animations enjoy alarming popularity, and each subsequent episode has from several to a dozen million views. Skibidi Toilet has almost 200 several-minute episodes, it has found its way into computer games (e.g. into community-created games in “Fortnite”) and memes, and songs about it are sung by children in every Polish primary school (and not only Polish, because Skibidi Toilet is an international phenomenon).
It is not really known why Michael Bay decided to direct a film about the Skibidi Toilet. There are no children at the age when this topic is most important. Perhaps the numerous explosions that appear in the YouTube series appealed to him, as well as the undisguised love of the creator of videos about the aggressive toilet for the Transformers. Or maybe it is about what it is usually about – money, because the Skibidi Toilet has won the hearts of the youngest Internet users, the so-called Alpha generation (i.e. children of Millennials). What is the easiest way to convince them to spend their parents’ money? By monetizing something they loved from the Internet.
Source: Gazeta
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