ICYMI - Skibidi Toilet Is An iPad Kid’s Fever Dream
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🗓️ 31 August 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Candice Lim is joined by Zakiya Gibbons, the host and creator of the reality dating podcast Hang Up. On today’s episode, they explain YouTube’s biggest phenomenon of the past year — Skibidi Toilet. The animated, dystopian web series was created by Alexey Gerasimov, whose toilets have broken the internet and wracked up more than 43.5 million subscribers. Skibidi Toilet’s biggest fans seem to be Gen Alpha, who are congregating around a meme that Gen-Z can’t fully get behind. Therefore, does Skibidi Toilet mark the first internet war between our two youngest generations?
This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario and Candice Lim.
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| 0:00.0 | Buy our electric car, they say. |
| 0:03.0 | A thousand mile range, they say. |
| 0:05.3 | The seats give massages, they say. |
| 0:07.7 | How much? |
| 0:08.7 | You say? |
| 0:09.7 | Ah, well, they say. |
| 0:11.1 | But at 14 995, the award-winning dacha spring 100% electric is the UK's most |
| 0:16.5 | affordable new electric car. So what do you say? Visit a dacha retailer to find out |
| 0:21.5 | more. Based on manufacturer's recommended retail price as of March 3rd for verification, |
| 0:28.0 | visit dacha.co. UK slash game changer. Hey, I'm Candice Lim. |
| 0:45.0 | And I'm Zekia Gibbons, and you're listening to I see why am I. |
| 0:50.0 | In case you missed it. |
| 0:52.0 | Slakes podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:54.0 | And Zakia, welcome to the show. |
| 0:57.0 | You're a podcast host, producer. |
| 1:00.0 | You've created great shows like Hangup |
| 1:02.0 | and you've worked on great shows like Nancy, but let us not forget |
| 1:05.0 | It's your first time on I see why am I therefore Zakia. What's your first internet memory? memory. Okay, do you remember those AIM buddy icons, like those avatar |
| 1:26.2 | thingies? Yes. Like very rudimentary, like cartoon looking things. I remember sitting at |
| 1:32.2 | my computer and scouring the hundreds of options looking for |
| 1:37.8 | the perfect one and then I landed on one that just spoke to my soul. |
| 1:43.5 | It was this little cartoon figure with a thought bubble |
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