Italian Brainrot / AI Italian Animals

About

Italian Brainrot, also known as AI Italian Animals, refers to a series of brainrot-style AI videos, art and memes that combine animals with objects like planes, coconuts or give them anthropomorphic features, especially legs and feet. The videos are typically narrated by a male Italian text-to-speech AI voice rhyming the characters' names with absurd statements about religion or random topics. The memes started in early January 2025 on TikTok with Tralalero Tralala, a shark wearing Nike shoes. The trend later gained viral traction with Bombardiro Crocodilo, a military bomber plane with a crocodile face, Lirili Larila, a cactus elephant walking in the desert with flippers, and many other absurd memetic characters. In the following months, others like Brr Brr Patapim gained notable traction. Versions of the trend from other countries using other languages also surfaced, like two Indonesian spin-offs called Tung Tung Tung Sahur and Hotspot Bro.

Origin

The exact origin of Italian brainrot memes is unknown, but sometime in early January 2025 TikTok^[1] user @eZburger401 uploaded the Tralalero Tralala AI video, which featured a shark wearing Nike shoes accompanied by the male Italian text-to-speech voice rhyming, "Tralalero Tralala, Goddamn God and goddamn Allah, I was with my damn kid, shit, playing Fortnite, when at one point my grandma comes in."

@eZburger401's account has since been banned from TikTok, but @elchino1246^[2] used the original soundbite in a post on January 8th, 2025, adding the "Tralalero Tralala" meme along with an AI-generated image of a shark outside the water with pigeon legs. The post gained roughly 19,000 plays and 422 likes in three months.

On January 13th, 2025, TikToker^[3] @amoamimandy.1a posted the earliest known notable video to use the "Tralalero Tralala" AI image, showing the shark wearing blue Nike shoes. The video gathered over 17 million plays and 1 million likes in three months.

Spread

Italian brainrot memes became exponentially popularized on TikTok in the next few months, spawning a series of AI-animal images merged with objects usually accompanied by a male Italian text-to-speech voice rhyming the characters' names.

For example, on March 14th, 2025, TikTok^[4] user @tjantv uploaded a rank of all the brainrot Italian animal memes, amassing more than 7 million plays and 620,000 likes in five days.

On March 17th, 2025, YouTuber^[5] @nazarsmemes posted a video featuring all Italian Brainrot AI Animals, which received roughly 17,000 views and 842 likes in two days.

Related Memes

Tralalero Tralala

Tralalero Tralala refers to a brainrot trend that features a voice speaking in Italian, saying, "Tralalero Tralala, porco dio e porco Allah." The meme began making the rounds on TikTok in early 2025, often paired with low-effort AI images featuring animals rearranged in strange combinations, including sharks wearing Nike shoes and a cat's face on a chicken. The sound eventually inspired a phonk remix that subsequently became the audio for a number of anime and soccer edits on TikTok.

Bombardiro Crocodilo

Bombardiro Crocodilo refers to a series of brainrot-style AI videos and memes of an anthropomorphic crocodile military bomber plane narrated by a male Italian text-to-speech voice that rhymes words similar to the Bitcoin Burger IbraTV French meme. The meme started in mid-February 2025 on TikTok, spawning other anthropomorphic characters, such as Bombombini Gusini, following the same rhyming text-to-speech soundbite jokes.

Brr Brr Patapim

Brr Brr Patapim refers to an AI-generated Italian Brainrot character that's a hybrid between a forest and a monkey with large feet. The meme became popular on TikTok and YouTube in late March 2025.

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