Skibidi Toilet creator controversy erupts again as DaFuq!?Boom! channel is rebranded

The YouTube channel DaFuq!?Boom!, home to the Skibidi Toilet series, has been rebranded to “Skibidi” by Invisible Narratives, and fans are not happy about it.

The channel was rebranded earlier today, with a post from “Team Skibidi” on the channel framing it as a planned evolution. “We’ve updated the channel name to @skibidi,” the post read, adding that the change had been flagged back in December. Unsurprisingly, a large chunk of the fanbase is upset with this.

DaFuq!?Boom!, whose real name is Alexey Gerasimov, created Skibidi Toilet in 2023 and turned it into one of YouTube’s most-watched series. Since then, his relationship with Invisible Narratives has gotten increasingly rocky, at least based on Discord messages that circulated online over the past year.​

Back in February 2025, Gerasimov told someone in Discord that he felt “scammed, lied to, paranoid” and described his business partners as people he didn’t want to work with. He said it was “like talking to a wall.” By June of that year, he said he had received zero updates on a planned movie collaboration, hadn’t seen any previews, and felt “completely isolated from the process.” His exact words: “I feel like a fool. My hope is dying with immense speed now.”

You can check the screenshots shared by @Plunger_Woman below for reference:

The movie reportedly involved Michael Bay and Invisible Narratives. Gerasimov said in July 2025 that he was “unable to work on it the way I wanted to” and described the situation as “the most serious it ever was.”

None of that appears to have been resolved. When someone in Discord asked Gerasimov more recently if he regretted signing the contract, he replied that he was “concentrated on part 2” and not worrying for now.

What fans latched onto this week is that the rebrand happened with no visible sign-off from Gerasimov. The channel name, banner, and profile picture were all overhauled to reflect the “Skibidi” brand. His name is gone from it. The #BringBoomBack hashtag started spreading on X shortly after. Some accounts have even changed their names to the hashtag in support.

Invisible Narratives has not publicly addressed the backlash as of this writing. The YouTube post signed by “Team Skibidi” is the only official statement, and it’s more like a product launch announcement than a response to something that has been building for over a year.

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