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When asked for his opinions on the popular webseries Skibidi Toilet using assets from Half-Life 2 while being aimed at an audience younger than the game itself, Half-Life series writer Marc Laidlaw claimed that he did not mind, because he felt no connection to the characters since he did not create their models. However, he felt that other developers who worked on the game may disagree:
Laidlaw compared the G-Man's sudden popularity through Skibidi Toilet to other pop culture figures from his youth who were also taken out of context from earlier works, particularly Alfred E. Neuman, the mascot of MAD magazine taken from advertisements 58 years older than the magazine itself.
"I think those who sunk a lot of time and expertise into creating HL2's facial animation system might feel differently when they see these models with their vertices twisted and distorted in ways that make the underlying models look broken and awful, but [creator DaFuq!?Boom!] clearly knows how to do careful facial animation when they want to, and they're using the typical [Garry's Mod] distortions to make the Skibidi Toilet people seem more alien. […] It's certainly a testament to something that these 20 year old character models are still robust enough to be repurposed and weaponized for the wholesale colonization of the YouTube eco-entertainment niche, but not to my role in their original design."
Laidlaw compared the G-Man's sudden popularity through Skibidi Toilet to other pop culture figures from his youth who were also taken out of context from earlier works, particularly Alfred E. Neuman, the mascot of MAD magazine taken from advertisements 58 years older than the magazine itself.
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