The ‘Tung Tung Tung Sahur’ meme is taking over TikTok, amassing millions of views. Here’s everything you need to know about it.
In early 2025, TikTok saw the rise of a bizarre and hilarious meme known as ‘Tung Tung Tung Sahur,’ a brainrot-style AI creation featuring an anthropomorphic wooden creature wielding a baseball bat.
This meme, accompanied by an eerie Indonesian voice-over, quickly captivated millions and became a viral trend during Ramadan.
Origins of ‘Tung Tung Tung Sahur’
The meme originated on February 28, 2025, when TikToker noxaasht posted the first known image of the wooden stick-man standing at what appeared to be a train or bus stop.
The accompanying voice-over described the creature as a “scary anomaly that only comes out at Sahur,” the pre-dawn meal before fasting during Ramadan.
According to the fictional legend, if someone ignores the call to Sahur three times, the creature visits their home, armed with its signature baseball bat. The video quickly went viral, racking up over 42.5 million views and 3.1 million likes.
In Indonesian and Malaysian cultures, the “bedug” is a large double-headed drum traditionally used to signal prayer times, including the call for Sahur during Ramadan. “Tung tung tung” mimics the sound of this drum.
Following its viral debut, ‘Tung Tung Tung Sahur’ evolved into a meme, often being powerscaled against another fictional AI creature, ‘Brr Brr Patapim’ – a moss-covered monkey entity. Other brainrot-style AI characters, like ‘Hotspot Bro,’ trended around the same time.
Some users noted similarities to the surreal word-association style seen in French Bitcoin Burger IbraTV videos, suggesting possible inspiration.
Several TikTok creators contributed to the meme’s popularity. On March 10, redbluzx_tiktoq posted a video of the creature swinging its bat and running before dramatically exploding, earning over 5.3 million views.
By March 13, dahuludansekarang uploaded a clip featuring Tung Tung Tung Sahur speaking, garnering almost 5 million views. Artists also joined the trend, with TikToker drw.artz showing a mechanical pencil drawing of the creature, reaching over 3.7 million views.
As Ramadan neared its end in late March 2025, Indonesian TikTok users began humorously “sending off” Tung Tung Tung Sahur, joking that his mission of scaring people into eating Sahur was complete.
TikToker sebuahvideorandom2 posted a farewell video on March 22, gaining more than 1.5 million views and 196,000 likes.
Despite the end of Ramadan, the meme continues to spread across the app, proving that Tung Tung Tung Sahur isn’t leaving the internet anytime soon.
It’s just one of the many brain-rot memes currently thriving on TikTok, alongside the popular ‘Tim Cheese’ lore and the ‘LeBron James glazing songs’ trend.
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