About

Tung Tung Tung Sahur is a series of brainrot-style AI videos and memes of an anthropomorphic wooden creature holding a baseball bat alongside an Indonesian voice-over. The meme is part of a series of brainrot memes from early 2025 in which a male Italian text-to-speech voice presents viewers with fantastical AI-generated creatures, like Bombardiro Crocodilo (an anthropomorphic crocodile military bomber plane) and Tralalero Tralala (a shark wearing Nike shoes).

Tung Tung Tung Sahur was often powerscaled against Brr Brr Patapim (a monkey creature covered in trees and moss). Similar Indonesian brainrot characters like Hotspot Bro trended during the same timeframe. The meme may have been inspired by French Bitcoin Burger IbraTV videos with a similar text-to-speech word association style. In Indonesian and Malaysian culture, a large double-headed drum called a "bedug" is employed to signal prayer times and, during Ramadan, to announce Suhoor. "Tung tung tung" is onomatopoeia made to resemble the sound of the drum.

Origin

The phrase "Tung tung tung Sahur" is a popular saying in Indonesia for alerting fellow Muslims that it's time for Sahur, which is the meal eaten before dawn during Ramadan. One of the earliest known instances of the phrase being used online is a July 13, 2013 tweet by X^[6] user @rayaaasl that read, "Sahur sahur tung tung tung, sahur sahur tung tung tung,sahur sahurrr."

On February 28th, 2025, TikToker^[1] @noxaasht posted the earliest known "Tung Tung Tung Sahur" image, showing an AI-generated image of a wooden stick-man holding a baseball bat standing in a place that resembles a train or bus stop. The voice-over on the video is transcribed and translated below;

Tung tung tung tung sahur. Anomali mengerikan yang hanya keluar pada sahur. Konon katanya kalau ada orang yang dipanggil Sahur tiga kali dan tidak nyaut maka makhluk ini datang di rumah kalian. Hi seremnya. Tung tung ini biasanya bersuara layaknya pukulan kentungan seperti ini. Share ke teman kalian yang susah Sahur.

Tung tung tung tung sahur. Scary anomaly that only comes out at Sahur. it is said that if someone is called for Sahur three times and does not answer, then this creature comes to your house. It's very scary. Tung tung usually makes a sound like a gong. Share it with your friends who have trouble eating Sahur.

The video gathered over 31 million views and 2.4 million likes in a month.

Spread

On March 10th, 2025, TikToker^[2] @redbluzx_tiktoq posted a video of the creature known Tung Tung Tung Sahur swinging his baseball bat and running away before exploding, gathering over 5.3 million views and 300,000 likes in a week.

On March 13th, TikToker^[3] @dahuludansekarang posted a video showing Tung Tung Tung Sahur speaking, gathering over 5 million views and 200,000 likes in 10 days.

On March 22nd, 2025, TikToker^[4] @drw.artz posted a video using a mechanical pencil to draw Tung Tung Tung Sahur, gathering over 1 million views and 69,000 likes in a day.

Nearing the end of Ramadan in late March 2025, many Indonesian internet users began joking about Tung Tung Tung Sahur returning back to his homeland, having completed his mission of scaring everyone into taking Sahur.

For instance, TikToker^[5] @sebuahvideorandom2 posted one such video on March 22nd, gathering over 800,000 plays and 100,000 likes in a day.

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