4 year old ASD obsession - skibidi bop. Send help!

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My son is 4 & a half, diagnosed ASD.
He has had a variety of special interests over the last couple of years, mainly centred around numbers/letters and has always enjoyed toys and programmes with age appropriate characters (the gingerbread man, paw patrol etc)
For the last month or so he is obsessed (and I really do mean obsessed, as in he barely goes 3mins without mentioning it) this YouTube clip called Skibidi Toilet. It is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen. For anyone who hasn’t been subjected to this, it’s an army of toilets with heads popping out of them singing various catchy songs with the theme tune SKIBIDI BOP BOP, SKIBIDI YES YES YES! and they are fighting against a rival army of camera-headed men.
I have no idea what the appeal is, but he is genuinely obsessed. He will scream and have huge meltdowns if he can’t watch it or sing it.
Aside from it is driving me insane, the school he will be attending (that my older child goes to) is quite strict on the pupils not singing about Skibidi Toilet (I think it’s been an issue there too). I’ve explained how he gets extremely obsessive about his special interests (which tend to change every few months) but I’m still worried they must think what a crap mum for him to be singing it nonstop every time we are there to pick his sister up etc.
Is anyone else dealing with this skibidi obsession?! Or have any experience of how to break negative obsessions for very young ASD diagnosed children? I’ve always been very happy for him to follow his special interests as none of them have been inappropriate until now. Thankyou!

I would provide alternative videos and songs play and sing them around him, likely he will move on before September anyway.

He needs to have some restriction on access to it so over the summer maybe limit how much YouTube time he gets in favour of other television or video apps that have longer programs by blocking it and only allowing at set times for set durations that fit around the school day timings so that he gets used to not having it at school.

Also tell school no YouTube for calming via a tablet.

I would provide alternative videos and songs play and sing them around him, likely he will move on before September anyway.

He needs to have some restriction on access to it so over the summer maybe limit how much YouTube time he gets in favour of other television or video apps that have longer programs by blocking it and only allowing at set times for set durations that fit around the school day timings so that he gets used to not having it at school.

Also tell school no YouTube for calming via a tablet.

Absolutely not suitable for children, why had your four year old even seen this stuff?

School can be very hard for asd kids - and at that age I had an obsession with needles.

I remember writing a prayer to god so that everyone would get an injection in y2 XD

Judging is not going to help. A lot of parents don't know how to set up controls or don't support them.

DD2's school had MMR catch-ups in Year 2. Would that have improved things or been worse?

My teens 14 and 17 (ASD) are obsessed too

Mum of a skibidi obsessed nearly 8 year old boy. He goes through stages of obsessions but this one has gone on for quite a while. We have just stopped him playing Roblox and stopped him watching YouTube unless educational. Can still watch Netflix etc. I have no advice but that’s what we’ve done to try and stop the constant singing and chat about it. More so the constant talking about it.

ASD mum here … it will soon pass, I can write a list as long as your arm of obsessions over the years, from shopping TV to Moshi Monsters

I can only imagine me 20 years ago running around and screaming

'WE ALL WILL HAVE VACCINES!'

Thankfully by the time I was high school age Kings interhigh was open and my mum paid for that

We went through the Skibidi toilet phase. Don't worry it will pass OP. DS (8 with asd) dressed as cameraman for Halloween. They really just love the weirdest stuff don't they? He is Currently going through a war of the worlds phase and developing an obsession with ants.

My 4 year old woke us up this morning singing Skibidi bop bop (also awaiting asd assessment)

I have no help, just sympathies 😂

Try being a teacher with all the skibidi toilets/skibidi Ohio rizz etc.

So many through the years! I am also the parent of an ASC kid - Ligma drive me mad