It is with equal parts confusion and shame that I regret to inform you that the Skibidi Toilet is coming to Fortnite

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I had come this far in my life not knowing what “Skibidi Toilet” is and I did my best to keep it that way. But as of today, my streak is washed out because it looks like Epic Games is putting the Skibidi Toilet in Fortnite.

Word of the cursed collaboration came our way via a cryptic tweet posted earlier today, which frankly meant nothing to me. A toilet, a plunger and a video camera might be good Sesame Street instructionbut as for how it relates to fornite i was completely in the dark.

It was producer Mollie Taylor of PC Gamer features, who is far hipper than I am in matters of pop culture, who made the connection, which upon further investigation (because I’m a pro) was confirmed by various Fortnite dataminers, including HypeX and SpushFNBR. Skibidi Toilet is actually coming to Fortnite in the form of a Plungerman skin, Skibidi Toilet back bling, and Plungerman’s Plunger pickaxe that can be purchased individually or in a bundle.

Apparently there will also be a feeling, because, well, why not:

Skibidi Toilet I’ve Been Forced to Learn is a machinima series created with Source Filmmaker by Alexey Gerasimov and published on his DaFuq!? Boom! channel on YouTube. It is according to Wikipediaparticularly popular with Generation Alpha – those born after the early 2010s – but it’s also become a wider pop culture phenomenon: you can buy a range of Skibidi Toilet items from Walmart, for example.

Interestingly, the response to the impending skibidization of Fortnite is not universally positive. There are plenty of reaction memes, and some of them get a little grim, but this seems to sum up the sentiment of the moment pretty succinctly:

Some have also questioned whether Epic is asking for legal trouble from Valve by adding the Skibidi Toilet to its game. The singing head from the debut episode of Gerasimov’s series is actually the head of the civilian Male_07 character model from Half-Life 2. Valve might be cool with its assets being used in an unrelated video series, but I imagine it might have other feelings by seeing it in someone else’s game, especially when that “someone else” is doing their best to practice on Steam’s turf. Then again, I can’t imagine Epic would start a project like this without making sure all legal bases are covered. We’ll see.

What I find most interesting about it all (or maybe just amusing) is the timing. The reveal of the Skibidi Toilet in Fortnite comes literally a day after Borderlands narrative director Sam Winkler said he would “cry real tears“if Borderlands 4 even contained the word “skibidi.” It’s something to be told that your humor falls below a baseline set by Borderlands.

Despite the skepticism, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the Skibidi Toilet crossover turns out to be a big money maker for Epic. DaFuq!?Boom! channel currently has nearly 45 million subscribers and the latest episode released four weeks ago has so far drawn 27 million views. And in case you forgot, Michael Bay is currently looking at bringing the “Skibidi Toilet multiverse” to life TV and movie screens. The naysayers are out in full force over this collaboration, but in the wider perspective, the strange tale that began with a head in a toilet remains massively popular.