About

Boneca Ambalabu is an AI-generated Indonesian Brainrot character that is a hybrid between a frog and a tire with human legs. The meme was first shared on TikTok on February 2nd, 2025, by TikToker @ofuscabreno, the creator of the brainrot animal Brr Brr Patapim. As other Italian and Indonesian brainrot animals went viral in early 2025, such as the Hotspot Bro, interest in Boneca Ambalabu grew, inspiring further memes using the character and its original sound.

Origin

On February 2nd, 2025, TikToker^[1] @ofuscabreno posted a video consisting of an AI-generated image of a frog-tire-human hybrid, garnering over 7.7 million views in two months. The video features an Indonesian monologue discussing the anomaly, although it seems to be cut short. The video purportedly translates^[2] to:

Boneca Ambalabu. An evil entity that has terrorized many people recently. It made scientists think hard on how to defeat it. One of the scientists left a name…

Spread

The character became the subject of memes over the following weeks. On March 12th, 2025, TikToker^[3] @fishy.ai posted a video pitting Boneca Ambalabu against another AI brainrot animal, Frigo Camelo Buffofardelle, garnering over 720,000 views in a month.

On April 4th, 2025, TikToker^[4] @ibrotherbrain posted a video showing a fight between Boneca Ambalabu and Tralalero Tralala, garnering over 949,000 views in four days.

Related Memes

Italian Brainrot / AI Italian Animals

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.

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