October 7, 2025
On the day after Skibidi Toilet 79 part 3 dropped, after fans had noticed issues with the quality, Alexey posted in his Discord server acknowledging what he described as “a very small and tiny bit of concerns” about the volume issues and transitions in part 3. He said the team was already working on polishing things for the full episode and estimated about a month. Given how loudly the community was reacting to the quality problems, the language struck many fans as unusually breezy and minimizing.
Alexey then uploaded a video showing a snippet of episode 79 part 3 – but with the sound effects and transitions completely ruined and overwhelmed.
The full episode was released on October 12. The same period saw two fan email exchanges surface on Reddit within a short window of each other. The first showed a fan who had written to Alexey’s email address with a detailed breakdown of problems still present in the full episode like the three bad transitions, missing 4K, an unexplained Watchman of Doom design change between Parts 1 and 2, several surviving errors from the parts, and a missing orb that had been deflected by the Scientist Mech.
The response from Alexey’s address acknowledged none of it. Instead it described the full episode as having been received with “an incredible amount of excitement and positivity” and stated it “really set a new quality benchmark for the universe,” with every new release built to go even further. The second email, sent to a fan named Marc, was more unsettling in a different way. In it, Alexey wrote that he had been shifting his focus to new, unrelated projects and would always be grateful for “the journey we had together”. The phrasing alarmed people. It sounded less like a creator taking a temporary break and more like someone quietly saying goodbye.
Shortly after, a tweet by community member CruzCrafter went viral within the community. It showed Alexey’s account liking his post that joked that Alexey had been dead for three weeks,
Strider had been doing all the animation, and Invisible Narratives was covering it up with AI generated audio. The like was later removed, which only added more fuel, with CruzCrafter publicly asking how Strider had gotten into Alexey’s account and what had happened to Alexey. At the time the community largely laughed it off as trolling. Strider was later said to have helped fix audio and other issues for the full episode and had also animated the “Intercepted Transmissions” livestream posted to Alexey’s channel shortly after.
Combined with the dismissive Discord post from October 7 and the strange emails, fans started referring to this stretch as Alexey’s “AI arc“, a period where his public-facing communication began to sound noticeably unlike him. Before Episode 79, whenever fans had problems with an episode, Alexey would typically respond personally and directly and address the issues in the full version.
These emails were different, they were overly positive, dismissive of specific concerns, written in a tone fans felt more closely resembled how Invisible Narratives handled fan complaints than how Alexey ever had. Some people at the time read the corporate-sounding responses as Alexey mocking impatient fans. But as more came out about what had been happening behind the scenes during Part 3’s production and release, the other interpretation gained ground which is that Alexey was mirroring the language of the people managing him as a way of signalling, to those paying close attention, that something had gone wrong.
The claim that Strider animated the Intercepted Transmissions livestream was also controversial. During an argument with Strider, someone asked him directly whether he had animated it, his response was ambiguous, rather than denying it, he simply said he was “expecting all this hate so yeah,” which many read as a non-denial. The evidence was acknowledged to be inconclusive, with the situation described as messy and Strider’s reply not clearly confirming or denying the question.
What added more weight to the conversation was a separate exchange where community figure Балдёж!) made a pointed claim directed at Strider: that Alexey had rejected Strider at some point, that Strider had been offended by this and said so publicly, and that Invisible Narratives had then stepped in and let Strider do the Intercepted Transmissions project, paying him well for it, and claimed that Strider had been given access to Alexey’s SFM sessions.
Strider’s response to the broader argument was that he hadn’t sided with anyone and considered himself neutral. ZacDoor, also present in the conversation, pushed back at Strider’s neutral stance, saying it would remain pointless as long as people kept trying to prove everything was fine, and adding that when Alexey returned, Strider would likely face community backlash for the side he had chosen.
October 13, 2025
AI Voice Clip
Two more unusual email exchanges surfaced. The first came from Musakhar167 who had emailed Alexey’s address directly asking whether he had been replaced by AI and what was going on. Rather than a standard text reply, the response came with an audio file attached, titled “Honest_Message_To_Skibidy_Toi…” The written portion read: “Hello friend! I heard you were wondering if I’m actually a bot — so I recorded this message just to clarify this misconception. Don’t worry, I’m very much human: made of bones and skin! Have a listen. Hope this settles it once and for all! – boom.”
The audio itself, rather than settling the question, only deepened it. In it, a voice opens with “Howdy everyone” before stating: “Following recent online discussions, I wish to officially confirm that I am not and have never been a clanker. Rather, I remain a completely human bio-organic entity composed of natural biological matter. Any resemblance to a mechanical lifeform is purely coincidental and should not be interpreted as evidence of non-human composition. Sincerely, the dafuqboom.” Rather than reading as Alexey joking around, the audio landed for many as either something generated or written by someone else, or Alexey deliberately constructing something that sounded artificial as another signal that all was not well.
Another Email
Around the same time, another email surfaced signed not as Alexey or Boom, but as “Kenleigh.”
It opened with “Iwe,yes truly appreciate the feedback and continued enthusiasm!” and described the full episode as having “established a new operational benchmark for overall quality and viewer engagement,” stating that “each subsequent release is projected to deliver further advancements in precision, visual fidelity, and creative impact.” The language was the most corporate and completely unlike anything Alexey had ever written to fans before. The fact that it was signed with an entirely different name was the detail that stuck with most people. The first sentence was also bolded, something Alexey had never done in previous fan emails. It was either Alexey trolling at a level he had never attempted before, or someone else responding on his behalf and not particularly trying to hide it.
Community observers began reading specific lines as possible hidden messages. “Your support plays an essential role in maintaining this upward trajectory” was interpreted by some as possibly telling fans to keep pushing with their criticism rather than backing down. “Each subsequent release is projected to deliver further advancements in precision, visual fidelity, and creative impact” was read by others as a sardonic echo of Invisible Narratives’ own talking points about faster uploads and the Emergence pipeline and Alexey mocking the plan rather than endorsing it. Whether any of that interpretation is correct remains impossible to verify, but the “Kenleigh” email, the AI audio, and the other emails, together marked the point where the community’s concern about what was happening behind the scenes shifted from speculation into something that felt considerably harder to dismiss.
Memes
Around the same time, the full episode had become a meme source within the community. Fans were taking footage from it and cutting together videos exaggerating the terrible transitions and slapping random goofy sound effects over them. Rather than ignoring it or addressing the criticism seriously, Alexey sent a troll video apparently from the Skibidi Toilet subreddit, to OneMoreAnimator, footage from the full episode deliberately cut with awful transitions, essentially Alexey participating in the trend of mocking his own episode. When OneMoreAnimator told him about episodes being animated in PowerPoint, Alexey replied: “These memes are hilarious! Our community is incredibly creative and funny!“
At the time it came across as dismissive and even rude to the fans who were genuinely frustrated. It felt like Alexey was laughing off legitimate complaints rather than acknowledging them. But in hindsight, a different reading emerged, that Alexey was using the only channel available to him to signal that he knew the episode was bad, that he couldn’t say so directly, and that joining in on the mockery of his own work was the closest he could get to admitting what had happened without being able to explain it openly.