The Weekly Meme Roundup: Ashton Hall's Morning Routine, Hotspot Bro, AI Studio Ghibli And More

This week in memes, a morning routine captivated the internet, the guy who always asks for a hotspot got roasted and a Studio Ghibli AI trend got people talking.

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Studio Ghibli AI Generator

Studio Ghibli AI Generator, also known as Studio Ghibli AI Filter or GPT-4o Art Style Image Conversions, refers to an AI art image-generation tool available on GPT-4o that allows users to convert images to different art styles. After OpenAI released the new image-editing feature on ChatGPT in late March 2025, numerous internet users began converting family photos, memes, historical photographs and other images into a Studio Ghibli-style animated image and sharing them on X / Twitter, among other sites. Studio Ghibli is a Japanese anime film studio with a distinctive and recognizable style of animation. In addition to Studio Ghibli recreations of images, many other iconic art styles, such as South Park, were created and shared by users online. The trend also stirred controversy when the official White House Twitter account shared a Studio Ghibli AI image of a woman being handcuffed and deported by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer.

Tung Tung Tung Sahur

Tung Tung Tung Sahur is a series of brainrot-style AI videos and memes of an anthropomorphic wooden creature holding a baseball bat alongside an Indonesian voice-over. The meme is part of a series of brainrot memes from early 2025 in which a male Italian text-to-speech voice presents viewers with fantastical AI-generated creatures, like Bombardiro Crocodilo (an anthropomorphic crocodile military bomber plane) and Tralalero Tralala (a shark wearing Nike shoes). Tung Tung Tung Sahur was often powerscaled against Brr Brr Patapim (a monkey creature covered in trees and moss). Similar Indonesian brainrot characters like Hotspot Bro trended during the same timeframe. The meme may have been inspired by French Bitcoin Burger IbraTV videos with a similar text-to-speech word association style. In Indonesian and Malaysian culture, a large double-headed drum called a "bedug" is employed to signal prayer times and, during Ramadan, to announce Suhoor. "Tung tung tung" is onomatopoeia made to resemble the sound of the drum.

Signalgate

Signalgate, also written Signal Gate, and Pete Hegseth's Houthi PC Small Group refers to a reported security blunder by U.S. President Donald Trump's second administration at the hands of his Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and National Security Advisor Michael Waltz (Mike Waltz) who accidentally added the Atlantic's Editor-In-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg into a group chat called "Houthi PC small group" on the encrypted messaging app Signal in late March 2025. Hegseth texted info about classified bombings in Yemen against Houthi rebels, which came to fruition a few hours later. Goldberg left the group chat and published the story soon after, titling the article, "The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans." The story quickly went viral on Twitter / X and other social media sites. Memes at Hegseth's expense surfaced en masse, typically using the situation as an example of his incompetence. Many of the memes used the emoji combination "👊 🇺🇸 🔥" because the Michael Waltz account had sent it in the group chat. Hegseth and the White House later denied the claims that confidential war plans were leaked in the chat.

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Upcoming Meme-a-versaries

Here are this week's birthday memes celebrating their anniversaries from the storied halls of meme and internet history:

• Crab Rave (April 1st, 2018)

• Tips Fedora (April 4th, 2012)

• Like A Boss (April 4th, 2009)

• 30-Year-Old Boomer (April 7th, 2018)

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