Michael Bay, Valve, and the Skipped Toilet Copyright Battle

You may not know this, but one of the most popular and bizarre videos on the internet in the past few years is Skibidi Toilet, a series of YouTube videos with billions of views, indirectly related to games like Team Fortress and Half-Life 2, created on a program called Garry’s Mod.

Now, the creator of Skibidi Toilet and the creator of Garry’s Mod have been dragged into a copyright dispute, which may involve Hollywood movie producers, but the only problem is that neither of them actually owns the characters appearing in the videos.

The videos themselves, created by creator DaFuq!?Boom!, can be described as absurdist humor, but for their fans, most of whom are teenagers and young adults, Type It is known as “brain rot”. Within seconds of starting one of these Skipidi toilet videos You will see why.

It has become so popular online that top Hollywood producers, including Michael Bay, are planning to release it. Make a movie and TV series based on the videos..

However, this poses a problem, because the YouTube videos themselves use assets such as 3D models and textures, which do not belong to DaFuq!?Boom!, but rather to game publisher Valve, which borrows them to Garry’s Mod, created by developer Garry Newman.

Battle for the Internet Meme

according to Dexerto In his report, Newman received a copyright notice from DaFuq!?Boom! stating that “significant revenue is being generated from unauthorized Skibidi Toilet Garry’s Mod games that are being advertised everywhere.”

“There is absolutely no Steam, Valve, or Garry’s Mod licensed content related to Skibidi Toilet,” it states.

The copyright notice is primarily directed at Garry’s Mod, but also includes a link to the program’s Steam page. It states that the program is being used to create unlicensed games using Skibidi Toilet’s IP – an interesting claim, given that the videos feature characters owned by Valve.

Also, it’s definitely the makers of these shady Skibidi Toilet games who should be taking the hit, not the creator of the software they’re using. That would be like FromSoftware sending a copyright notice to the Unity developers because people make Elden Ring Disassembly On the game engine.

Newman recently took a similar hit from Nintendo, forcing him to remove all Nintendo assets from Garry’s Mod, but it’s safe to say that DaFuq!?Boom! didn’t create the assets used in the videos so much as borrowed them.

“You know what’s worse than Nintendo’s Digital Copyright Act?” Newman asked in a Discord chat where he revealed the notice. “The Skibidi Toilet guys sent out a Digital Copyright Act notice too. Serious. Can you believe the chutzpah?”

Who owns Skibidi toilet?

Things get even more complicated, as DaFuq!? Boom! now claims that he didn’t send the notice to Newman, and is now looking for a way to contact the creator of Garry’s Mod to clarify the matter.

“I didn’t hit Gary Mode and I’m trying to figure out what else is written in the message!” said the account claiming to be DaFuq!?Boom! via Discord.

But if Skippedy didn’t send the DCPA notice, who did? The letter itself states that it came from Invisible Narratives, LLC, which according to Crunchbase Owned by Hollywood producer Adam Goodman, the company “creates original franchises using the most engaged influencers on social media and partners them with Hollywood filmmakers and authentic brands.”

according to diverseGoodman is a co-producer on Michael Bay’s upcoming film Skibidi Toilet. It appears Invisible Narratives has filed a request. Copyrights To Skibidi’s toilet, and maybe you did it without telling DaFuq!? Boom!

And why would they do that? DaFuq!? Boom doesn’t “own” Skibidi Toilet, not really. Neither does Garry’s Mod. In fact, if there was an owner of the videos, it would be Valve. Garry’s Mod is a big deal for Steam, with over 23,000 users in the past 30 days.

Neumann won’t comply with the Invisible Narratives Digital Copyright Act because he can’t control what users do with the software, and he may argue that in court. Valve may join Neumann and start suing as well, especially since Bay and Goodman are planning to make a movie featuring Gordon Freeman and the Fortress Scout team in the lead.

It’s unbelievable that the copyright situation around Skibidi Toilet, of all things, is going to get any worse. And that raises a deeper question, one that will soon come to light as more people, like Goodman and Pai, try to make real money off of popular internet culture—who owns the meme?