Stephen Colbert's Late Show has been slammed by viewers after sharing a parody of Joe Biden as a toilet with his head poking out following a meme-worthy gaffe
Critics slammed the segment as a low point in "modern American political discourse" while some suggested that The Late Show might have inadvertently cast Biden in a villainous light.
Forcing people back to work during the pandemic didn't do it, taking part in genocide didn't do it, but this skit is what will have Biden remembered as a villain.
I clicked onto a few of the latter videos in the series- the 73 episode series- and the youth of today were taking it as seriously as Warhammer 40k or Game of Thrones. There were intricate theories about which toilet weapon is going to counter the television weapon. Toilets had names and people hunted through every scene for clues and references to prior lore.
The Elsagate generation is going to have a fully sloppy brain.
Didn't the creator intend the toilet heads to be a stand-in for fascism? Like I remember a post here a while back where the creator made flag with four toilets that "coincidentally" made a swastika.
I said it in the last thread when this came out. Who is this even for? Only gen alpha care about skibidi toilet for its face value and everyone else thinks it's either silly gmod videos or aren't online enough to care beyond going "what are those millennials doing now, toilets of all things" and sticking Biden's head in a toilet is read as disrespectful verging on obscene to anyone watching Colbert at this point
Feel free to start slinging the shit towards me for my apparently hot take, but in the context of the monologue, Biden's campaign hiring a meme person, it made decent enough sense and the fact that it was painful to watch was actually a plus.
When memes aren't organic they're usually cringe. This is where Bernie, despite all his faults, excelled where Hillary "Pokemon go to the polls" Clinton failed. Because Bernie embraced the positive content his supporters independently created rather than have a staff member try to to craft viral moments that they thought the youths would like.
Biden has already tried to coopt "dark Brandon", ruining it, since the entire
joke is that Biden is actually not radical nor a threat to anyone.
The more awful the skibidi Biden bit is the more it drives home the idea that a political campaign should not try to meme by giving us an idea of how much wrong could happen.
Late to the party but I learned about skibidi when babysitting for my neighbor. She is from Afghanistan and speaks little English or the local language, but we get by. Her son, though, spoke the local language well at 4 and was trying, in 4 year old language, to tell me what skibidi was without mentioning YouTube, because the distinction of YouTube film and representing something real was not clear yet in his child brain.
The sound effects he used were so hilarious and confusing. If I can remember right he said "it's this monster head that comes out of the [ground] and goes 'bwaaaam' ". Think of Sound effects for Interstellar lol.
I genuinely thought for a bit that this was some folklore from Afghanistan that I'd never heard of til I tried to ask his mom wtf he was talking about and she was confused but mentioned it possibly being something about a toilet and we looked it up hahahah
I am always too hard on myself with my own writing, I'm always worried when I make a reference to something that it is too lazy or too poorly thought out. But really, I'm doing fine. Seems like even just basic writing skills and basic self-awareness are all that you need to be a decent writer, well above whatever the hell the US media is producing these days.