With equal parts confusion and shame, I regret to inform you that the Skibidi Toilet is coming to Fortnite.

I had come this far in my life without knowing what the “Skibidi Toilet” was, and I had done my best to keep it that way. But as of today, my streak is reddened, because it looks like Epic Games is installing the Skibidi toilet in Fortnite.

News of this damn collaboration reached us via a cryptic tweet posted earlier today, which frankly meant nothing to me. A toilet, a plunger and a video camera might be a good solution. Educational Sesame Streetbut as for its connection to Fornite, I was completely in the dark.

(Image credit: Epic Games (Twitter))

It was PC Gamer Features Producer Mollie Taylor, much more hip than me when it comes to pop culture, who made the connection, which upon further investigation (because I’m a professional) was confirmed by various Fortnite dataminers, including HypeX And SpushFNBR. Skibidi Toilet is indeed arriving on Fortnite in the form of a Plungerman skin, a Skibidi Toilet back bling and a Plungerman’s Plunger pickaxe, available for purchase individually or in bundles.

There will also apparently be an emote, because sure, why not:

Godzilla does the Skibidi toilet emote pic.twitter.com/oVY7bOojRhDecember 17, 2024

Skibidi Toilet, as I was forced to learn, is a machinima series created with Source Filmmaker by Alexey Gerasimov and broadcast on his DaFuq!?Boom! channel on YouTube. It is, according to Wikipediaparticularly popular with Generation Alpha, i.e. those born after the start of the 2010s, but it has also become a wider pop culture phenomenon: you can, for example, buy a range of products Skibidi Toilet at Walmart.

Interestingly, the response to Fortnite’s impending skibidization is not universally positive. Reaction memes abound and some of them get a little dark, but this seems to sum up the emotion of the moment pretty succinctly:

Some have also wondered if Epic was asking for legal trouble from Valve by adding Skibidi Toilet to its game. The singing head from Gerasimov’s first episode of the series is actually the head of civilian character model Male_07 from Half-Life 2 Valve might be cool with its assets being used in a series of unrelated videos, but I imagine it might have different feelings seeing it in someone else’s game, especially when that ‘someone d. ‘other’ made of sound better to establish itself on the Steam field. Then again, I can’t imagine Epic going into a project like this without making sure all the legal bases are covered. We’ll see.

What I find most interesting about all of this (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 one thing to say that your humor falls below a baseline set by Borderlands.

Despite the skepticism, I won’t be at all surprised if the Skibidi Toilet crossover turns out to be a big money maker for Epic. The DaFuq!?Boom! The channel currently has almost 45 million subscribers and the most recent episode, released four weeks ago, has so far been viewed 27 million times. And in case you forgot, Michael Bay is currently planning to bring the “Skibidi Toilet Multiverse” to television and cinema screens. The naysayers are out in force over this collaboration, but from a broader perspective, the strange story that began with a head in the toilet remains extremely popular.