Sheet 02 · Specimen #0000081 · Brainrot → Brain rot → AI-generated characters · 2023
Kentongan
AI drum that wakes you up for Ramadan prayers
Rejected. It isn’t going to the Arctic.
“The Ark already has the drum with a face. It doesn't need the drum without one.”
Why Noah said no
This is the Wikipedia page for the kentongan, a Javanese slit drum used since the 13th century. Only its last paragraph is about the meme, and Tung Tung Tung Sahur already has its own entry in the Ark, which covers the drum, the bat and the Fortnite skin.
- Rejected
- 25 Oct 2026
- Original size
- 2.2 MB
- Made by
- Wikipedia contributors
Found via Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentongan
What it is
Tung Tung Tung Sahur is an AI-generated character shaped like a kentongan, a traditional Javanese wooden drum used to call people to Suhur (the pre-dawn meal during Ramadan). The character became a meme starting around 2023, spreading through absurdist shitposting and appearing in video games like Fortnite. People used it as a joke about religious obligation mixed with surreal internet humour.
Why it’s internet culture
It shows how online culture borrowed from real religious and cultural practices and turned them into absurdist material, and how a meme could spread across video games and social media without needing the approval or staying power of earlier trends like Italian brainrot.
It's the Wikipedia page for the real Javanese drum that the Tung Tung Tung Sahur meme was built on. The online part is one paragraph about the AI character, which the Ark already holds as its own entry.
What Noah read
A kentongan, or kentungan, is a 13th-century traditional Indonesian-Javanese type of slit drum that is classified as a percussion instrument and an idiophone. A hollow wooden bell, the kentongan is used primarily as a tool for communication, community security, and religious signaling. In terms of communication, it is often used for disaster risk and warning of an incoming disaster. The instrument is commonly associated with the AI-generated meme Tung Tung Tung Sahur. Description and history The kentongan, or kentungan, is a hollowed-out cylinder made from bamboo, wood, coconut tree trunks, or bronze, depending on the region. It has a long vertical slit that acts as a resonance chamber. It is struck in a "Doro Muluk" pattern with a wooden mallet (beater) to produce a deep, loud, and penetrating clicking or popping sound. While many are plain bamboo tubes, some versions are carved into intricate shapes resembling humans, fish, or mythical creatures like dragons (Nāga) and Garuda. After being struck with a mallet, it makes an echoing "tung-tung" or "thok-thok" sound that decays over a short noticeable period of time. The kentongan is historically used by Ketoprak musicians and Jatil…
The rest wasn’t kept.
History
Rejected
“This is the Wikipedia page for the kentongan, a Javanese slit drum used since the 13th century. Only its last paragraph is about the meme, and Tung Tung Tung Sahur already has its own entry in the Ark, which covers the drum, the bat and the Fortnite skin.”