Tung Tung Tung Sahur
Where it came from
Made by TikTok creator @noxaasht in late February 2025, during Ramadan. The name comes from the Indonesian kentungan, a wooden drum beaten before the pre-dawn sahur meal.
A long anthropomorphic wooden log with a face, little arms, and a baseball bat. The name is just the sound of a kentungan drum (tung tung tung) plus "sahur", the meal you eat before sunrise during Ramadan. The lore is that he's what comes for you if you ignore the wake-up call three times: the bat is not decorative. You mostly use him as a reaction or a recurring character, no labeling required.
He's part of the Italian Brainrot universe, that wave of AI-generated creatures with fake-Italian names (Tralalero Tralala, Bombardiro Crocodilo) that took over kids' TikTok and YouTube Shorts in early 2025. Tung Tung Tung Sahur is the one non-Italian outlier who got fully adopted into the family, and he turned out to be one of the most durable characters in the whole thing. There are toys, songs, fan animations, and a frankly alarming number of elementary schoolers who can recite his name on command.
The brainrot wave as a whole has cooled off hard since its spring 2025 peak, and most of those characters are already forgotten. This one's stickier than the rest, still showing up mid-2026, but it's coasting on recognition now rather than spreading. If you're over the age of twelve you probably learned about it secondhand from a confused parent.
Search interest, over time
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