In a bizarre turn of events that can only rival the initial virality of the Skibidi Toilet meme, Dafuqboom—the original creator of the viral internet phenomenon—has had to deny sending a copyright notice to Garry’s Mod creator Garry Nelson.
An alleged copyright strike notice was first spotted and shared on X (formerly Twitter), with the supposed claim coming from Invisible Narratives, a movie company owned by Michael Bay and Adam Goodman that recently acquired rights to make a Skibidi Toilet franchise. The alleged strike, which has since been strongly refuted by Dafuqboom, calls for Garry’s Mod to deactivate all corresponding assets.
Dafuqboom took to Discord as quickly as he could to shoot down the claims, writing: “Is there a way to contact Garry? I did NOT strike Garry’s Mod and I’m trying to understand what else is written in the letter.”
Now that Dafuqboom has denied sending this strange Skibidi Toilet DMCA notice, this likely means one of two things: A) Invisible Narratives sent the notice without keeping Dafuqboom in the know or B)the DMCA notice was fake.
If the former is true, look to Valve entering the picture with a legal rebuttal which, as some have already predicted, wouldn’t be good news for the Skibidi Toilet movie.
For anyone who hasn’t kept up with the recent internet brainrot phenomenon, the Skibidi Toilet YouTube series is animated in Valve’s free Source Filmmaker software using Valve-created assets from Half-Life 2. And as is the nature of Garry’s Mod, a sandbox game from Valve that lets you play around with assets from the studio’s various games, Skibidi Toilet creations started appearing in the game as user-generated add-ons.
Neither Valve nor Invisible Narratives have commented at time of writing.
