Where does Tung Tung Tung Sahur come from?

The answer

Sahur, also spelled suhur, is the meal Muslims eat early in the morning, before dawn, before a day of fasting in Ramadan. In some places a Ramadan drummer walks the streets to wake people for it: tung, tung, tung. In 2025 an Indonesian TikTok creator turned that wake-up call into a character: a traditional wooden slit drum carrying a wooden bat. That character is the meme Tung Tung Tung Sahur. The Case of the Anti-Tung, a made-up case from Matter of Record Files, plays the idea for laughs: a character called Tapperino can't sleep because a Tung Tung Tung is inside him, and a vacuum cleaner turns out to be the cure.