The dreaded and feared Skibidi Toilet has reared its really ugly head in Fortnite eventually. The rumored replace formally dropped within the recreation final night time, and up to now it is prompting reactions of skepticism, confusion, and delight from the Fortnite neighborhood.
First off, let’s speak in regards to the crossover itself. We first discovered about it earlier this week by way of leakers, adopted up by a affirmation from the official Fortnite X account of a rest room, plunger, and digicam emoji in succession and a date: December 18, 2024. The precise replace went dwell final night time, and features a Skibidi Toilet bundle on the merchandise store (discounted to 2,200 V-bucks on the time this piece was written) consisting of plunger pickaxes, a Plungerhead character pores and skin, and two backpacks: one which goes with the Plungerhead outfit, and one other that’s the iconic Skibidi Toilet himself. There’s additionally a lego model of the Plungerman pores and skin.
You realize it. Now you possibly can put on it!
Skibidi Toilet & Plungerman. Out there now within the Store.https://t.co/DXMUbYvQLk pic.twitter.com/P8VUaJorLe— Fortnite (@FortniteGame) December 19, 2024
That is it for the collaboration, although with the latest return of the unique map and the Flush Manufacturing unit, there’s already a conveniently toilet-themed location simply ready to be flooded with Skibidi nonsense:
The addition of Skibidi Toilet to Fortnite is being met with some combined emotions from the neighborhood. There are some naysayers who really feel that Fortnite has gone too far incorporating the favored meme, suggesting it is juvenile and indicative of a slide into whole absurdity for what’s deemed worthy of a collaboration:
That stated, the overwhelming majority of of us appear to vary from mildly amused to chaotically delighted, even those who don’t know what Skibidi Toilet is.
All in all, the decision of the Fortnite neighborhood appears to be that the Skibidi Toilet addition to Fortnite is an effective time, at minimal as a result of the Plungerman pores and skin is fairly cool.
Should you, like some members of the Fortnite neighborhood, have completely no thought what this rest room factor is, this is the fast rundown: Skibidi Toilet is a sequence of net shorts by Alxey Gerasimov revealed on YouTube by way of Gerasimov’s channel, DaFuq!?Increase!. And by shorts, we do imply very quick – early episodes are solely a handful of seconds lengthy, and have been created with Garry’s Mod utilizing belongings from video games like Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike. The sequence incorporates a rest room with a person’s head popping out of it set to a mashup of the songs Give It to Me by Timbaland and Dom Dom Sure Sure by Biser King. Whereas early episodes are considerably nonsensical, because the sequence progresses a plot emerges about an arms race between the Skibidi Bogs (of which there are a lot of of various sizes and with completely different heads coming out) and a race of individuals with video cameras for heads. The plot progresses from there, extra lately centering on a cameraman named Plungerman and involving alien Skibidi Bogs.
The entire factor, whereas absurdist, is much extra complicated than you may think simply from seeing the picture of the pinnacle in the bathroom. The truth is, it is received sufficient occurring (and is well-liked sufficient) that there is reportedly a movie and TV adaptation effort underway from Michael Bay.
Should you love Fortnite however Skibidi Toilet continues to be a bit a lot for you, don’t be concerned. The recreation will get so many fixed collaborations, the toilet-fest will shortly be drowned out by the following large factor, which occurs to be Mariah Carey rising from a large block of ice to ring within the holidays. It is nearly time!