The dreaded and feared Skibidi Rest room has reared its actually ugly head in Fortnite eventually. The rumored replace formally dropped within the recreation final evening, and to this point it is prompting reactions of skepticism, confusion, and delight from the Fortnite neighborhood.
First off, let’s discuss in regards to the crossover itself. We first discovered about it earlier this week via leakers, adopted up by a affirmation from the official Fortnite X account of a bathroom, plunger, and digital camera emoji in succession and a date: December 18, 2024. The precise replace went dwell final evening, and features a Skibidi Rest room 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 Rest room himself. There’s additionally a lego model of the Plungerman pores and skin.
You already know it. Now you possibly can put on it!
Skibidi Rest room & Plungerman. Accessible 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 facility, there’s already a conveniently toilet-themed location simply ready to be flooded with Skibidi nonsense:
The addition of Skibidi Rest room to Fortnite is being met with some blended 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 mentioned, the overwhelming majority of oldsters appear to vary from mildly amused to chaotically delighted, even those who do not know what Skibidi Rest room is.
All in all, the decision of the Fortnite neighborhood appears to be that the Skibidi Rest room addition to Fortnite is an efficient time, at minimal as a result of the Plungerman pores and skin is fairly cool.
When you, like some members of the Fortnite neighborhood, have completely no concept what this rest room factor is, this is the short rundown: Skibidi Rest room is a sequence of net shorts by Alxey Gerasimov printed on YouTube by way of Gerasimov’s channel, DaFuq!?Growth!. And by shorts, we do imply very brief – early episodes are solely a handful of seconds lengthy, and had been created with Garry’s Mod utilizing property from video games like Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike. The sequence includes 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 Bathrooms (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 Bathrooms.
The entire thing, whereas absurdist, is way extra advanced than you may think simply from seeing the picture of the top in the bathroom. The truth is, it is acquired sufficient happening (and is well-liked sufficient) that there is reportedly a film and TV adaptation effort underway from Michael Bay.
When you love Fortnite however Skibidi Rest room continues to be a bit a lot for you, don’t be concerned. The sport 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 emerging from a giant block of ice to ring in the holidays. It is virtually time!