skibidi

What does skibidi mean?

Skibidi is a gibberish word spread by Skibi Toilet, a popular YouTube show featuring human-headed toilets battling camera-headed humans. It is widely used as a nonsensical (and occasionally pejorative) expression and meme online.

Examples of skibidi

It’s really hard to get in the spooky scary mood when some girl behind me keeps screaming “SKIBIDI” every time she gets scared in a haunted house
—@thebookschack, Threads, 13 Oct. 2024

what in the skibidi sigma is happening here
—@dalnimars, X (formerly Twitter), 10 Oct. 2024

been working six days straight. not very skibidi rizz of my job, tbh.
—@rememberrich, Threads, 23 Dec. 2023

Where does skibidi come from?

Skibidi experienced great popularity in 2023 and 2024 thanks to a short-form computer-animated YouTube series called Skibidi Toilet (created by Alexey Gerasimov on his channel, DaFuq!?Boom!). First released in February 2023, Gerasimov’s show depicts a darkly comic war between the Skibidi Toilets—villainous toilets who have sinister human heads arising from their bowl—and humanoids with surveillance cameras for heads. The series, which draws from popular video games, became a sensation among young viewers.

In early episodes, the titular toilets sing along to a remix of Bulgarian singer Biser King’s 2022 song “Dom Dom Yes Yes,” which features scat-style singing—including a word now primarily rendered as skibidi—over an electronic dance beat. This was not the first (nor the last) time the nonsense syllables of skibidi went viral in a song. In 2018, the Russian satirical band Little Big released a song (and bleakly silly video) called “Skibidi,” which used the nonsense sound in lyrics set to a dance. In October 2023, skibidi gained additional prominence when a TikToker used it in the lyrics of a song and video, called “Sticking Out Your Gyatt for the Rizzler (Fanum Tax)”: Sticking out your gyatt for the Rizzler / You're so Skibidi, you're so Fanum Tax / I just want to be your Sigma.” The lyrics are meant to be a parody of memetic Internet slang terms, like gyatt, sigma, and Fanum tax, seen as overused by young people. You asked. We answered.

How is skibidi used?

Skibidi widely appears in reference to the show Skibidi Toilet, and other content it has inspired, from memes to merchandise. Due to its sudden and extensive popularity, it also comes up in mainstream discussions of so-called “brain rot,” or mindless content and slang associated with Generation Alpha’s perceived unhealthy digital lifestyles. In fact, the effects of such content, specifically the grim absurdity of Skibidi Toilet, have prompted a fictional ailment dubbed Skibidi Toilet Syndrome.

Outside of these contexts, skibidi is mainly used for humorous, expressive, and ironic effect. It can mimic the grammatical versatility of expletives, as in “Oh my skibidi! I didn’t expect this game to be so skibidi hard.” (We could get more technical about its grammar, but in the name of all that’s skibidi, we won’t.) While it doesn’t have a set meaning, its connotation can skew negative, due to its association with nefarious sentient plumbing, and frequent appearance in skibidi Ohio rizz, a mostly joking insult for someone thought of as bizarre or awkward.