‘Fortnite’ Is Being Flushed By ‘Skibidi Toilet’

YouTube series Skibidi toilet will appear soon Fortnite like a skin — the news sparked surprise, disbelief and lots of memes from Fortnite fans.

Fortnite is something of a media multiverse, a digital playground where all the popular franchises collide, from Dragon Ball to Family guy; Skibidi toilets entrance to Fortnite-verse may mark its official entry into mainstream pop culture.

Rumors first started appearing on X (Twitter) there Fortnite would incorporate Skibidi toilet like a skin— delicious SpushFNBR reported that a “Plungerman” skin with a Skibidi Toilet Backpack and a Plungerman Plunger pick will all drop Fortnite.

Epic Games, the developer of Fortnite, confirmed the leak on X with a few teasing emojis, including a toilet, stamp and video camera, with the date “12.18.2024.”

What is ‘Skibidi Toilet’?

Skibidi toilet is an animated series featuring grotesque, singing toilet people engaged in a destructive battle with an army of mechanical men, who sometimes have cameras attached to their heads.

Skibidi toilet has proven wildly popular on YouTube and has seeped through to the rest of the internet, inspiring tributes, fan animations and memes. Parents have often been confused by the show’s popularity, but Skibidi toilet is simpler than it seems.

The series was created by Georgian animator Alexey Gerasimov, who posts each episode on his YouTube channel, DaFuq!? Boom!

Gerasimov started his story with an 11-second YouTube short, featuring a head emerging from a toilet, singing remixed lyrics to a Biser King song (which was originally sampled from a TikTok meme).

The simple short went viral and encouraged Gerasimov to expand the story until it grew into a lengthy saga of a violently destructive war. Gerasimov has quoted Michael Bay’s Transformers films, as well as his own recurring nightmares, as major inspirations for his series.

From the very beginning, Skibidi toilet has been created using Valve’s Source Filmmaker, an animation and editing tool packed with assets from Valve games such as Half-Life.

Gamers question the ‘Fortnite/Skibidi Toilet’ collaboration

After the leak was confirmed by Epic, fans reacted with hyperbolic horror as if it was Fortnite embracing Skibidi toilet was another example of internet “brain rot” seeping through to the mainstream.

Others questioned whether the licensing deal could even go through since there were several Skibidi toilet characters were built using Valve’s assets from other games.

It is unclear whether Fortnite will change the appearance of them Skibidi toilet characters, but the grinning faces of Skibidi toilet may be changed at some point regardless, as there are plans to adapt the series into a cinematic blockbuster franchise in the near future.

In an ironic twist of fate, Michael Bay is said to be involved in adapting the series alongside former Paramount president Adam Goodman, who count on to Skibidi toilet “might be next Transformers or could be a Marvel universe.”

No matter what Skibidi toilet grows in, it has now become large enough to enter Fortnitewhich has become the entry point for many younger players to meet major pop culture icons.

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