Welcome to this installment of Context Clues, where we provide you with excerpts from previous

episodes and new commentary in order to make richer our newest topic at hand.

I'm your host, Chelsea Weber Smith, and this is American hysteria.

Oh, dear listeners, what have I done?

Why have I done it?

What even is it?

Skibity toilet, our upcoming topic, is a record-breakingly viral sensation on YouTube, most popular with the new big dogs in town, generation alpha, who are at their oldest about 14. But they are already

the tastemakers of the, taking over from Gen Z, whose online humor and admittedly

dank memes are aging out of the conversation.

Now it's skibbity toilet this and skibity toilet that,

and oh my God, many if not most of you are probably screaming, and I mean screaming into the black vacuum of your smartphone screen, what in the living, breathing hell is skibbitty toilet?

I encourage you, my friends, to sneak on over to a little YouTube channel called Dafuk Boom to watch the first few minute-long

episodes of Skibbitty Toilet so you can get a better idea of what this strange, creepy, chaotic, and as some

call it, stupid series is all about. You can also head to our Instagram at American Hysteria

podcast to find a little collection that we've put together for you of this

digitally animated series. It is in these videos that you will find the source of the most popular slang of Gen Alpha, the word that seems to mean nothing and everything all at once

skibity. If you've never heard the word skibity,

you probably will now, the way you hear a new word one day and suddenly it's everywhere.

Some members of GenZ call the ongoing YouTube series an example of brain rot, evidence that the new generation has been

totally ruined by being chronically online. Some of those in generations older than that call Skibity Toilet potentially dangerous to the impressionable

youth.

I call it a war-torn uncanny valley, a modern dadaist

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