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First time I saw Skibidi Toilet I didn't have the context of it being popular with kids so I assumed it was just regular shitpost and it made me laugh
I have no idea how people who enjoyed 2016-2020 meme culture reacted so negatively to it
Happy Tree Friends, if you want a specific example.
The problem with happy tree friends is it was the same joke every single time. Like ok yeah, the juxtaposition is amusing but that's literally it
No one I personally knew that was continually entertained by Happy Tree Friends beyond maybe a single one-off shock humor gimmick wound up being a good person later in life.
Ha ha is so funny they kill Kenny in every episode lmaoo
South Park contaminated generations of viewers. I had just about given up trying to socialize offline with people my age back in CA because so many never fucking cleared out the irony poisoning there.
Holy shit Happy Tree Friends... I remember being a kid and all my friends who had older brothers or cousins talking about it and I was like ->
It was not a good time seeing one of those videos, awkwardly laughing at the shock value of it once then getting pressured into watching more and more of pretty much the exact same shock value gimmick over and over and over and over again. Any attempt for me to back out or just do something else was "WHY ARE YOU SO SENSITIVE? WHERE IS YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR?!"
Stickdeath and its seemless transition from slightly mask on racism to fully mask off racism after 9/11
Possibly because the generation who appreciated that eras meme culture are growing older and are no longer the rebellious youth. Dipping their toes into the boomer pool, so to speak.
Yeah the millenial reaction to Skibidi Toilet is their test for if they will Become Boomer or not.
I like Skibidi shenanigans a lot more than my own generation's "Happy Tree Friends" era of edgy humor.
Oh god Happy Tree Friends was RANCID.
I'm glad we agree there. If there was ever a cartoon portrayal of the idea of "cruelty is the point," it was Happy Tree Friends.
There's some good stuff from that generation too though admittedly. Homestar Runner was at its peak around the same time.
You're right.
I have a deep, deep sentimental fondness for all things Homestar Runner.
I hated it too.
I'm getting some weird memory that could be completely wrong but I believe my sister was showing me these and excitedly said "this is banned in Cuba!" I was always disgusted by it despite liking "edgy" humor like idk aqua team or whatever and if Cuba banned it, good, though I'm struggling to imagine why that would happen beyond there being poor internet access or just blocking American IPs
I have a soft spot for happy tree friends, I didn't have internet back then and people shared weird shit on CDs. That was my first contact with edgy humor like that
I guess Beavis and Butt-head was my equivalent guilty pleasure. Irreverent nearly to the point of nihilism, but there it was in my teenage years, because I was a dumbass.
Oh how the turns are tabling, or some shit. I have become boomer.
skibidi toilet was more like 2005-2010 meme culture imo, it was exactly like all the shitty "idiots of gmod" shitposts, just ramped up to 11. I really didn't get the negative reaction from all the "adults" considering I was laughing at the exact same type of shit when I was 13. I'm in my thirties now
yup, spiritually millennial
funnier than 90% of zoomer memes no offense
Pretty much
The people who were laughing at the Doctor Hax stuff in the late 2000's are now saying 'this is too far, sir'
https://youtu.be/PH_-nCZuTWI
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