A new TikTok trend has teens walking up to strangers with folders full of weird internet memes, and one elderly woman’s reaction has become the best part of the whole thing. The trend, called “showing brainrot to strangers,” has people printing out strange images from online culture and showing them to random people in public while recording their reactions.
The trend usually targets people who don’t spend much time online, like elderly shoppers in grocery stores and clothing shops. People taking part put together folders full of images that only make sense to those who live on the internet, like characters such as John Pork, FreakBob, and things related to Skibidi Toilet. The videos then get posted to TikTok, usually with the Silent Hill song Never Forgive Me, Never Forget Me by Akira Yamaoka playing in the background.
