"Skibidi Toilet" Could Become the Next Marvel Universe

"The Armageddon" director Michael Bay wants to develop the controversial viral video "Skibidi toilet" into a film or TV series, according to Variety.

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"Armageddon" director Michael Bay wants to develop the controversial viral video "Skibidi toilet" into a film or TV series, according to Variety.

A computer-animated skull that emerges from a toilet and sings incomprehensible words for 11 seconds. The viral internet sensation

was first posted on February 7, 2023, by 23-year-old Georgian Aleksej Gerasimov. Since then, it has engaged Generation Alfa on YouTube (where it has over 190 million views) and on the gaming platform Roblox.

Gerasimov has built on "Skibidi toilet" with several short films in the same video game-generated environment, with a storyline that deepens the war between toilets and cyborgs. He is now working with Hollywood studio Invisible Narratives and director Michael Bay as a creative advisor to transform the project into a film or TV series.

I've always been a director who believes in taking risks. The audience is craving fresh, new ideas. With "Skibidi", it's a new world that the younger generation is looking at, and I take it very seriously, says Michael Bay to The Washington Post.

The video has simultaneously become controversial among some parent groups and in Russia has been subject to investigation by state authorities. But now "Skibidi" is tipped to form the basis of the next big film universe – at least according to Invisible Narratives CEO Adam Goodman in a current podcast. According to Goodman, Gerasimov has "started building something that can become the next 'Transformers' or a Marvel universe".

Corrected: In an earlier version of the text, there was an error about Michael Bay's previous films.

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