Skibidi Toilet DMCA Takedown

Overview

Skibidi Toilet DMCA Takedown refer to a notice of Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown sent by DaFuq!?Boom!, the creator of the digital series Skibidi Toilet, against Garry’s Mod (GMod), alleging unauthorized use of copyrighted assets. The DMCA claim was revealed by Garry Newman in late July 2024, developer of the independent physics sandbox game, on Garry’s Mod s&box Discord server. Online, netizens criticized the takedown notice, as the series was created using assets from GMod.

Background

On July 29th, 2024, Garry Newman, creator of Garry’s Mod revealed^[1] on GMod's s&box Discord server that DaFuq!?Boom!, the creator of Skibidi Toilet, has sent him a DMCA takedown request alleging copyright infringement related to some of the characters from the series being utilized in unauthorized Skibidi Toilet Garry's Mod games that are "being advertised everywhere." (full DMCA below)

X^[2] user @PedroManX89^[2] posted one of the earliest mentions of the Skibidi Toilet DMCA takedown, sharing a screenshot from Garry Newman's Discord messages in which he posted the full DaFuq!?Boom! notice and wrote "You know what's worse than a Nintendo DMCA? Skibidi Toilet guys sent a DMCA too." The tweet (seen below) amassed more than 33,000 likes and 5,200 reposts in a few hours.

Developments

DaFuq!?Boom!'s Alleged Response

A few hours after Newman shared the DMCA takedown notice, a Discord^[3] user allegedly being DaFuq!?Boom! wrote on the s&box server that he did not "did NOT strike Garry's Mod and I'm trying to understand what else is written in the letter!" (seen below)

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