I watched it and it honestly is pretty cool, kinda catchy and funny and reminiscent of some steam orange box edit from 15 years ago

The youtube comments are full of ~20 year olds complaining about it though (probably mostly ironically but still)

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    61·
    1 year ago

    crapping on the Latest Thing Kids Are Doing is one of the early phases of transitioning into an out of touch adult.

    every new group thinks they’re gonna be young and connected to youth culture forever. when they run into the first thing from younger people they don’t get, they feel compelled to explain why “it sucks actually” rather than letting go of their youth status.

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      101·
      1 year ago

      crapping on the Latest Thing Kids Are Doing is one of the early phases of transitioning into an out of touch adult.

      Does this mean zoomers are becoming out-of-touch-geezers at the seasoned age of ~21 years old?
      I remember being 21, back in the early 2010s, I was never even thinking about what younger kids were doing, nobody was.

      • sharkfucker420 [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        No surely not. I was there when the rizz lords first spoke, I understand the origins of the gyaat, and I’ve seen the skibidis upon their toilet. This fanum tax eludes me however

        I’m still gip with the kids

    • TraumaDumpling [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      personally i don’t feel like i’ve ever been in touch with ‘youth culture’. even when i was very young i always felt like i never understood what other kids were talking about, and this feeling of alienation from ‘the zeitgeist’ has persisted into my 30s. like, when i was a kid i liked ninjas and mecha. now that i’m 30 i like ninjas and mecha and communism. but i never liked the name brand IP stuff, Gundam is mid mostly (i especially disliked gundam wing, which was the hot shit when i was a pre-teen), and like 7/10 at its best (gundam IBO, haven’t yet seen witch from mercury but i hear good things). transformers is and always was poorly concieved garbage. power rangers were silly but normal IP-less anonymized ninjas were cool. naruto and DBZ were too impractical, even when i was like 6 i didn’t like their tacky orange outfits. i liked pokemon (or more accurately i thought pikachu specifically was cute) for like one year and got bored of it while the rest of the world went wild about it. and i never liked any music anyone else had ever heard of. i think assuming that these criticisms are always and necessarily just out of touch adults complaining about what they don’t understand is too simplistic, because ‘out-of-touch-edness’ is not confined to the old and the very concept might be kinda ableist towards the neurodivergent depending on the definition and related assumptions.

  • WIIHAPPYFEW [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    41·
    1 year ago

    “YOLO,” said Millennials, and “yeet,” the Zoomers cried

    “Rizzler gyatt fanum tax,” the Alphas then replied

    And lo, there came a shaking as an ebon spire rose

    Upon it writ the tongues of men, their generations’ prose

    And from the sky a thund’rous voice called out unto the stone,

    As golden letters glowed upon its surface, newly shown:

    “RIZZLER GYATT FANUM TAX, SIGMA OHIO SKIBIDI”

    And all beheld the words embossed theron in great timidity

    With shaking and with wavering voice, the grim refrain began

    As all the generations sang the verse at its command

    Their weeping and their running sores did nothing to delay

    The chanting of that fevered song as night succumbed to day

    But rose that morn a blighted sun whose light scoured like a flood

    The sky was rent asunder and the rivers turned to blood

    Their flesh peeled off in sickly strips, their bones were rendered bare

    And still they chanted ever on, the words they uttered there

    Until bone and flesh and earth and death were all forgotten things

    And still unbidden, undesired, the blackened spire sings

    Around it wind the whispers of the souls in its captivity:

    “rizzler gyatt fanum tax… sigma ohio skibidi”

  • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    23·
    1 year ago

    I think some of it is self reflexive cringe. We know it’s just like the stuff we were laughing at a couple of years ago, and it’s painful to think that we weren’t always as enlightened as to understand that Obama impressions and the Adam Friedland show are the highest form of humor.

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    20·
    1 year ago

    It’s like when Minecraft went from being that game for babies into an icon you can’t criticize. Every generation hates on something the youngest one likes for whatever reason.

      • GeorgeZBush [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        221·
        1 year ago

        I refuse to accept “gen alpha”. If Gen z is late 90s to 2000s, shouldn’t “Gen alpha” be in like fifth grade at most? Do they even count as a distinct generation yet? Are we gonna get Gen Beta in like two years?

        It’s such an arbitrary and contrarian concept, just scrap the idea of namwd “generations” altogether.

        • JuryNullification [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          15·
          1 year ago

          The youngest millennials are like 26 (1997 is the cutoff per the idiots who came up with it). People are really jumping the gun, as the youngest gen z is like 10 years old.

          • GeorgeZBush [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
            15·
            1 year ago

            It’s like the memeification of generations. Like kids that were born in 2007 saw all the zoomers distinguishing themselves from millennials and now they want in on calling people slightly older than them “boomers”.

          • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
            12·
            1 year ago

            I think generations are valid, but the demarcations for the generations are terrible. They should be based on watershed moments in history of a given country. Since different countries will have different watershed moments, generations should be country specific. For example, a “boomer Iraqi” makes no sense because Iraq didn’t have a baby boom equivalent.

            In terms of zoomers, I demarcate the two watershed moments as 9/11 and Covid. In other words, zoomers weren’t old enough to remember a pre-9/11 world but old enough to remember a pre-Covid world. Since someone born a day before 9/11 would have zero memory of 9/11, let along a pre-9/11 world, there can be a ~4 year offset before the actual year of the watershed. For me anyways, a zoomer is someone born between 1997 (2001-4) and 2016 (2020-4). Within this almost 20 year range, you could subdivide this so you can categories like “old zoomer” or “peak zoomer.” The 2008 financial crash and the 2016 presidential election are two minor watershed moments. So 1997-2004 are the early zoomers, 2004-2012 are the peak zoomers, and 2012-2016 are the later zoomers. Agewise, this is 19-26 for older zoomers, 11-19 for the middle zoomers, and 7-11 for the younger zoomers.

            The hate of skibidi toilet is just older zoomers cringing at younger zoomers, but everyone involved is a zoomer.

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        19·
        1 year ago

        Zoomers are now in their “I’m like 20 now and I feel like I’m ancient” phase where they have to ironically hate on the new Gen saying boomer shit like “kids these days aren’t as good as we were”

        • CrushKillDestroySwag@hexbear.netEnglish
          6·
          1 year ago

          IMO the Z/Alpha split doesn’t make any sense at all. With Boomers/Gen X it makes sense because one grew up in postawar America and got to prosper and the other grew up in Neoliberal America and didn’t, Millenial vs Gen Z makes sense as a distinction because the Internet became big while Millenials were already established but Gen Z grew up with Web 2.0 totally dominating their lives, but what, exactly, is the dividing line between Gen Z and Alpha? Nothing, they’re the same generation, it’s just kids who don’t like something telling the kids who like it that their taste is bad.

          • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
            4·
            1 year ago

            The split should be between pre-Covid and “post”-Covid, so your oldest alpha is like 7. And this is only partially effective because society has collectively decided to pretend Covid didn’t happen, so it’s not a very significant demarcation.

  • bubbalu [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    I am a zoomer who teaches alpha, and except for Bluey and Miraculous Ladybug, all of their touchstone media is stuff that was big before my time. They all up in Mario and Sonic and Frozen and that. When I was a kid, we had like iCarly and Codename Kids Nextdoor and Avatar. Now its like there’s nothing unifying for the kids to watch. Kinda sad.

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      This is sounding eerily similar to the Boomer-millennial-(and apparently possibly alpha) complex vs. the genX-zoomer complex

      where each complex has vaguely similar behaviors/traits due to most of them being raised by the previous generation

      It’s also very interesting that I (millennial) generally dislike zoomer stuff but skibidi seems pretty enjoyable to me (small sample size still but we’ll see)

      • bubbalu [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        Except its pretty sad because a lot of my students’ parents are around my age, some are literally my age and maybe a quarter are only 2-4 years older. I can’t imagine being ready for a baby in 2-4 years let alone having had one 2-4 years ago :(

  • bubbalu [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    I actually really like Skibidi. Really like how the toilets (poop, most essential and base humanity) are engaged in people’s war against the panopticon.