If the recently revealed ambitions to make “Skibidi Toilet” the next big Hollywood hit ever come to fruition, YouTube will be the foundation upon which that success is built.

A new VIP+ data analysis shows that the rise of the YouTube channel DaFuq!?Boom! has been nothing short of astonishing since February 7, 2023, when Alexey Gerasimov uploaded an 11-second video titled “skibidi toilet.”

As of this writing, the original video has been viewed some 188 million times, and DaFuq!?Boom!'s subscriber count has grown from 1 million in 2021 (modest by modern YouTube standards) to around 43 million today.

Gerasimov had been uploading original animations since 2016, but his primitive clip of a head emerging from a toilet singing a catchy but unintelligible song became a true cultural phenomenon.