Social media trend: pudding, fork, and the new courage to nonsense

200 people met in Karlsruhe to eat pudding with forks. The flash mob went viral on Tikkok. Now “pudding meetups” take place all over Germany.

Tikok and Instagram are the over-engines for absurd trends.

In the “Tide Pod Challenge”, young people swallowed in 2018 detergent tabs and filmed themselves. In 2015, the #kyliejenner Challenge mainly put on the lips of young girls or similar vessels and created a negative pressure in the hope of getting bigger lips. This trend was inspired From the eponymous Kylie Jenner.

But who would have thought that the city of Karlsruhe of all thingsto–be for a new online trend? Someone probably just wanted a little last week Nonsensehas hung up posters and Schwupps: 200 people with forks and pudding, in the middle of the Kronenplatz – and the whole thing without frills and Organicjust for fun.

How did it come about?

The first flash mob on the variety “We Essen Pudding with fork” went viral a few weeks ago. With laminated invitation notes on the lantern mast: “Let us eat pudding together with fork.”

No advertising, no influencer, only pure internet vibe. TikTOK Exploded with millions of views, Reddit users planned directly to the next event. The message is always the same: bring a pudding of your choice and a fork, that’s it.

What is behind it?

The event has no deeper meaning – and that is exactly the charm. It is a conscious break with the “grown-up in the” grown-up “, a ritual of self-encouraging. An escape from life. Shortly after graduating from high school, especially with the parents, a pandemic suddenly had our world firmly in his hand. Now many from the gene Z are experiencing how a war in Europe feels. Scenarios that we only knew from the stories of our parents or grandparents are now terrifyingly close to us.

It seems that a lot of strangers would go to a spontaneous kindergarten level without being condemned. Sure, some celebrate the community, others only come to laugh, and in the end everyone knows the saying: “I was there when we ate pudding with fork.”

Pudding dinner for community and rebellion

This pudding thing can be located somewhere between community and rebellion against everyday life. It shows how people combine through apparent senselessness – without expectations, without performance, just to be there for joy. The consequence: suddenly you chat with strangers because everyone follows the same strange ritual.

Whether KarlsruheNuremberg or Hamburg-The pudding-mit-fork movement is the new social Icebreaker And somehow a tribute to our inner unreasonable. If you want to be there, you have fork and pudding – and a lot of desire to celebrate new people and nonsense.