“Tung Tung Tung Sahur is born at the intersection between Indonesian-Muslim sacred traditions and algorithmic folklore. Its circulation in the form of nonsensical, AI-generated memes has deterritorialized the character’s cultural background, paradoxically enhancing its exotic attractiveness in digital spaces. The anthropomorphic log with a bat accompanied by spooky visuals, incomprehensible words and a sinister music skit accrued a formidable aura not because of what it is and means, but as a consequence of what it makes people feel in a mediascape of cyanotic blue lights and small OLED screens talking to us all the time, and compelling us to re-tell and reproduce these narratives among our circles of virtual and IRL friends. Coherently, the influence this particular apex predator has in the media ecology of attention wars is not one of sociopolitical meaning-making, but of uncanny sensonarrative capital.”