
When we all heard that Skibidi Toilet, the series of machinima videos about toilets with human faces going to war, was being made into a movie, a lot of questions came up. Questions like "What are you talking about?" and "Huh?" and "What? Why? Why would you do that? How could a just and loving God allow something like this to happen?"
We now have more information, but not enough to even begin answering these questions. What will this movie look like or be about? I have no idea. Michael Bay is set to direct, but what does that tell us? He took Transformers, a relatively simple story about robots at war, and turned it into an incomprehensible mess of chaotic visuals and meaningless plots. That series was, however, quite profitable, so its quality (if such a word applies) was totally immaterial. Maybe if he starts with source material that's already chaotic and nigh-incomprehensible, he can make something interesting.
Invisible Narratives will helm the production, with Michael Bay as the Chief Creative advisor. The studio was founded by Adam Goodman, former Head of Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Studios. His credits include the 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, G.I. Joe, World War Z, and J.J. Abrams' reboot of the Star Trek series, which showed either ignorance or dismissive disrespect to Star Trek's intellectual philosophy.
The teaser just released is a single image of some people staring upwards. Essentially meaningless non-information, highlighting all the worst in the vapid hype-culture of modern marketing. These days, disconnected C-Suite producers who don't understand art or today's youth have a vague idea that internet culture exists, and that it might be profitable. Hence the decision to make Skibidi Toilet into a movie.
I have no idea what form this movie will take, whether it will suck in an entertaining and unique way or, in classic Michael Bay fashion, as a droning mess of visual noise hostile to the idea that art can express themes or ideas. I admit I'm curious to ask what form Skibidi Toilet will ultimately take and if, by some providence, it turns out to be good, how that comes to be.