We spoke to DaFuqBoom, the guy behind the \u201cSkibidi toilet\u201d videos DaFuqBoomA bizarre series of videos have cropped up on YouTube and TikTok, featuring animated fights between toilet creatures and camera people. Have you ever scrolled through TikTok late at night and found something so tantalizingly weird, it drags you into the depths of 3 AM? That\u2019s how I found DaFuqBoom, an animator based out of Georgia. It\u2019s also how a lot of people appear to have found him. His real name is Alexey, and his videos of vicious, singing toilet people fighting a series of hardware-headed people have racked up millions of views. On YouTube, a video compilation of \u201cSeason 14\u201d uploaded three hours ago \u2013 as of writing \u2013 has already hit over 800, 000 views. It\u2019s an astonishing rate, which Alexey says he didn\u2019t expect: \u201cIt gained bigger views from the start, but I was not expecting to have it that big. It started to blow up huge somewhere during the release of [episodes] 8-9.\u201d From parody to war \u2013 DaFuqBoom ups the ante You might also recognize the song, as it was a huge meme on TikTok for a few weeks in 2022. User yasincengiz38 danced his belly while being served mountains of food, bringing it to the forefront. However, it was user Paryss Bryanne who inspired DaFuqBoom. Her excessive movements and quick cuts to a new position led to the creation of the Skibidi Toilet series: \u201cI did a parody of her take on the \u2018skibidi dop dop yes yes\u2019 meme. [The] Skibidi toilet video was a random thing, just based on [an unexpected] head popping out of the toilet.\u201d Alexey has been animating for around nine years, using Source Filmmaker. The software, which was released by Valve in 2012, is what powered the excellent Team Fortress 2 adverts. It also bore its own community, with its easy-to-pick-up nature enticing users into recreating movie scenes or, in DaFuqBoom\u2019s case, creating a war epic. When I asked why he chose Source Filmmaker, which is known for being a little finicky, DaFuqBoom said it was due to how easy it was: \u201cEasier access to different assets [and a] great interface. I know how to animate as well in Blender, but the whole process including lighting and rendering would take [three times as longer].\u201d He makes sure to credit the creators of the assets that he uses in each video as well. Skibidi toilets are taking over YouTube Since DaFuqBoom started uploading the series of videos in February, and since then has managed to earn a staggering 10 million subscribers since May. Alexey now sits on a YouTube account with 15.8 million subscribers and a TikTok account with 2.8 million followers in just a few weeks. The videos don\u2019t really have much of an expressly told story, instead relying on visuals to great effect. There are toilet people, made up of assets from Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike: Source. These creatures have infected, or taken over, the human race, and all that\u2019s left are suited individuals with cameras for heads. Each video is a tug-of-war between the two sides. The cameramen figure out how to best the toilets, and in the next episode, the toilets strike back harder. As you go further, more characters are introduced. Speaker-headed people, and more recently, devastating mysterious TV people that blare the THX sound to kill the enemy. Episodes end with a jumpscare of sorts, or a thumbs up for a job well done. The TV people use emoticons to express their feelings. Those with speakers on their heads are often dancing. DaFuqBoom raises the bar he\u2019s having to pull himself back These videos start out fairly simple, but the quality of the animation and the intensity of each fight is ratcheted up further with each minute-long video. When you watch these videos, the different animations \u2013 most recently featuring a spider-legged toilet \u2013 are incredible. DaFuqBoom has been putting a video out each day for a few weeks. It makes you wonder how one person can keep up with the pace. However, Alexey admits that he\u2019s had to scale back how frequently he uploads to \u201c[two] days because the quality of the videos has risen.\u201d He\u2019s not wrong either, as the videos have gone from featuring toilets singing the series\u2019 namesake song, to full-scale war scenes. Speakers fly overhead, as a giant GMan toilet shoots laser beams from its eyes. Though, the song has begun to take a backseat. While the toilets screech or bellow it out, the videos are more about the ongoing war than a meme. Between all of this, Alexey has also developed a video game adaption that\u2019s on mobiles. Skibidi toilet fakers Meanwhile, on TikTok, there\u2019s a forgery happening. A user has been making their own \u2013 albeit worse \u2013 versions of the videos to piggyback off the success of DaFuqBoom. These videos feature similar tropes, and commenters are slowly picking up on the quality. TikTok, though, is not interested in removing the content according to Alexey: \u201cI tried to take them down, but TikTok support doesn\u2019t care, even after all the proof I\u2019ve given to them. They\u2019re unable to verify me.\u201d The account, which claims to be \u201cDaFuq?!Boom! Official\u201d reuploads the content, and then will re-edit it to scrape more views. It hasn\u2019t deterred Alexey though, as he\u2019s already planned out the future of the series: \u201c[The] main plotline is all planned out already, but some in-between episodes are added sometimes. It will continue for a while.\u201d Will the Titan TV Man be able to subdue the corrupted Titan Speaker Man? It looks like we might find out in just a couple of days as Alexey is already hard at work on the next few episodes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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