The Skibidi Toilet – Garry’s Mod DMCA issue has been resolved

As originally reported by IGN, the DMCA copyright strike notice that an undisclosed source adjacent to Skibidi Toilet had hit Garry’s Mod with has been resolved.

Skibidi Toilet, the mega YouTube and TikTok series featuring toilet-ified Half-Life 2 character models used in the Garry’s Mod sandbox, has been spreading to conquer the few unaffected corners of the Internet via bizarre headlines. Last week, we learned that Transformers Michael Bay himself is trying to make a movie or TV series out of the property. This week, we learned that a peculiar legal battle between Skibidi Toilet and Garry’s Mod almost came to be.

In very late July, we learned that a DMCA copyright strike possibly coming right out of Skibidi Toilet’s creator Aleksei “Dafuq!?Boom!” Gerasimov had hit GMod‘s creator Garry Newman. Though Garry never stated the obvious, the move is baffling because Skibidi Toilet owes its existence to Garry’s Mod, not the other way around. Still, the strike mentioned four characters present in Skibidi Toilet that are copyrighted by Invisible Narratives. That’s a company co-owned by director Michael Bay, the one he’s using to try to adapt the Skibidi Toilet series to the big or small screens.

Newman took to his own Discord server to notify his fans about the strange occurrence, which sent both fandoms into a frenzy. It didn’t take Skibidi Toilet creator long to answer in Garry’s Discord, and to address the issue on his own server.

Boom! further explained that he didn’t know where the attack came from, but that it came from neither him nor Invisible Narratives. He said it likely originated in back in 2023, in an attempt to remove NSFW videos featuring Skibidi Toilet’s character models that he didn’t want kids to see.

“The letter that was posted by Garry is not from me or INVIZ. While we don’t know exactly where it came from, it’s possible it was sent after member of the team reached out at the end of 2023 with concerns that Skibidi characters were being animated and monetized in hurtful ways.”

Boom! also said that he had no intention of taking down the actual Garry’s Mod.

Newman has since provided an update, confirming to IGN via email that the takedown had been sent back in 2023. He concluded by saying that Dafuq had been in touch, and that the issue was no more. Still, we’re yet to learn of the exact source or the reason for the action. Just as interestingly, Valve, the company whose assets allowed for the existence of both Garry’s Mod and Skibidi Toilet, remains seemingly nonchalantly silent on the issue.