I really feel like I want to begin with an apology. I’m so sorry. You had been simply minding your personal enterprise, scrolling the web, and dwelling your life blissfully unaware that late-night TV host Stephen Colbert not too long ago premiered a Skibidi Rest room sketch that includes President Joe Biden’s head on CBS. And now I’ve ruined every part. I’m sorry.
Earlier than we hop proper into this horrible, horrible factor, let’s present some context. Final yr, Skibidi Rest room—a wierd net collection that includes heads coming out of bogs and invading the planet—turned a few of the hottest YouTube movies on the planet. The collection is created utilizing the identical instruments and property behind Half-Life and different Valve-developed video games. The Skibidi Rest room collection has tons of of thousands and thousands of views and apparently a minimum of a type of viewers included a author on Colbert’s late present employees.
On Could 22, throughout Colbert’s opening monologue on The Late Present on CBS, he mentioned the latest information that President Biden’s marketing campaign was trying to rent a “Meme Web page” supervisor. He then jokingly displayed two previous memes that includes Biden’s messaging earlier than saying “and naturally, for the very on-line: Skibidi Biden.” After which this performed on nationwide tv.
There’s something extremely miserable about watching this “Skibidi Biden” clip. The way in which it goes on too lengthy. The truth that CBS cheaped out and didn’t license the precise track. The sensation of demise slowly embracing you as you watch the poorly animated 2D head of Biden bounce up and down on a considerably flesh-colored pipe inside a bathroom probably grabbed from Shutterstock. All of it sucks, man!
And certain, with the full context of the meme supervisor bit, this is a bit more forgivable, however nonetheless…what are we doing? What the fuck are we doing, of us?
How many individuals watching a random episode of The Late Present in 2024 know what that is? Even Colbert jokes that viewers ought to ask their grandchildren about it. What a horrible scenario for any poor child unfortunate sufficient to be requested by his grandma to clarify “that dancin’ bathroom joke on Colbert.”
The one silver lining is that everyone knows that God is useless and the legal guidelines of humanity now not exist. In order that’s neat.
