The Flibbity Jibber is a mock children's book created by TomSka and Eddie Bowley
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The idea came from Tom wanting to show how he and Eddie took while making their book Sam Kills Christmas, which had released earlier that year. The process they took in the video was to have one person illustrating based on what the other wrote for that page and switch off for each page.
Tom and Eddie filmed the making of the book and released it on YouTube. That video can be found here.
The Flibbity Jibber contains examples of:
- Ambiguous Gender: The titular Flibbity Jibber is referred to by he, she, they, and it pronouns throughout the book. One comment calls the Flibbity Jibber "truly the gender-fluid icon of our time".
- Anaphora: Each pages' couplet begins with the phrase "The Flibbity Jibber..."
- Bizarre Alien Limbs: The Flibbity Jibber's nose appears to work, well, like a nose. However, interestingly, the Flibbity Jibber species (?) uses it as an arm frequently, shown when the Flibbity Jibber holds a gun with it and the whole Jibber family intertwines their noses like they're holding hands.
- Company Cross References: Spamcat makes an appearance.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: The Flibbity Jibber has a nose with hairy nostrils, a long, phallic trunk, and some ambiguous liquid dripping from the end.
- Similarly, their mother (and presumably the female members of their species in general) has no nose, but a vertical slit for a mouth.
- "Everybody Dies" Ending: The owl and Spamcat are already dead by the last page, but the tree and skateboard suddenly are dead as well.
- Fridge Logic: In the last panel, the Flibbity Jibber family is seen holding noses, with the titular Flibbity Jibber in the middle. How does this work? Typically, when a group of three holds hands like this, the person in the middle uses both hands to hold the hands of the people by their sides, but seeing as how the family are holding their noses, and they only have one nose, it isn't clear if that's how it works.
- Heel Realization: After the Flibbity Jibber's parents come out from behind the trees, the titular character has this.
- Hidden Evil: The owl and Spamcat were apparently evil all along, as evidenced by their angry faces when dead.
- Killed Offscreen: The owl, Spamcat, the Hat Tree, and the skateboard all die in between pages.
- Mood Whiplash: The story starts innocently enough ignoring the character’s suggestively-designed nose, until they whip out a gun on Spamcat in the third verse.
- Protagonist Title: The Flibbity Jibber. Debatably Antagonist Title because of the Flibbity Jibber's actions throughout.
- Red Shirt: The owl, who barely lives for one panel before the Flibbity Jibber pulls a gun on it and shoots it to death.
- Rhymes on a Dime: Mostly played straight until the last page, where it's subverted on the last linenote to highlight the nonsensical energy of the ending.
- Riding into the Sunset: The Flibbity Jibber family walk off into the sunset at the end.
- Similarly Named Works: Not necessarily the name of the work per se, but the Flibbity Jibber sounds like a lyric in a Tally Hall song that has sparked memes all over the internet: "Do you hear the Flibbity Jibbity jibber jabber?"
- Soundtrack Dissonance: At the end of the "making of" video, the book is read aloud to a relaxing children's lullaby, reflecting the What Do You Mean, It's for Kids? energy present throughout the book.
