Overview

• Hundreds to more than 1,000 participants met in recent days in cities including Hannover, Münster, Mannheim and Würzburg to eat pudding with forks.
• Calls to assemble circulated widely on TikTok, Instagram and Reddit, turning a local Karlsruhe flyer from late August into a multi-city trend.
• Organizers and attendees describe the events as inclusive spaces for meeting new people, with some citing loneliness and a desire for connection after the pandemic.
• Reporters link the phenomenon to TikTok’s “brainrot” aesthetic, framing the deliberately absurd ritual as playful relief from constant online scrolling.
• An earlier mass meetup in Emskirchen associated with the “Drachenlord” meme was banned by police yet remained largely peaceful, and new pudding dates continue to be announced online.