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What is ‘Skeleton Brunch’ trend? All about the creepy TikTok HOAX

If one searches 'Skeleton Brunch' on TikTok, it only opens up old videos of Halloween-themed brunches

The 'Skeleton Brunch' is a new TikTok trend, the only twist is, it does not exist. Despite numerous tweets referring to the trend that has led to a craze, there are no TikToks really dedicated to the faux trend.

Twitter users are sharing pictures of creepy skeletons seated around a table set with brunch bites. However, if one searches 'Skeleton Brunch' on TikTok, it only opens up old videos of Halloween-themed brunches.

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What is the ‘Skeleton Brunch’ trend?

Here is what happened, an altered photo shared by a Twitter user showed a fake DM from American politician Rudy Giuliani asking someone, "Skeleton Brunch?”, and then writing, "Wrong person. Ignore.”

Another fake screenshot by a different user, posted earlier, shows a People.com headline titled, “Julia Fox says Kanye West ‘wouldn’t let her go to skeleton brunch’ and that ‘just wasn’t going to work for her.”

Social media users soon started following the hoax trend and began hosting their own “Skeleton Brunch". A number of users started raising questions on why they couldn't find the trend on TikTok. "oh yeah, it's skeleton brunch," one user wrote, sharing a picture of a skeleton with a galss of juice kept on a table in front of it. "Me showing up for skeleton brunch, idk I'm not on tiktok," wrote another. Sharing a picture, another user wrote, "An early skeleton brunch (when you could still smoke at restaurants)".

"I don’t have TikTok, Wtf is skeleton brunch? Is this a real thing??? Someone please lmk," one user wrote. One user commented, "I feel left out, how do I get on the skeleton brunch side of tiktok, do I have to watch more cooking videos". "I’ve tried looking it up on tiktok with like no actual “skeleton brunch” posts… it’s probably a joke but harmless imo," one user said.

"I’m on tiktok a lot and I have no clue what a skeleton brunch is please I need to know," while another said, "What really confuses me is there is absolutely nothing that comes up when you search "skeleton brunch" on TikTok OR YouTube, did they just ... make up a fake TikTok trend for clicks???? Even the pictures here look like regular Halloween setups???????"

"besties i’ve been off tiktok for like a week what the f*** is skeleton brunch," one user questioned. Another user wrote, "As much as I hate tiktok, the skeleton brunch thing looks mad fun and I would love to partake in this meta". "Whats a skeleton brunch Why did multiple articles make this thing up Cant find it on tiktok anywhere," one user commented.

Putting it short, the trend, where people have been setting up their own dining table alongside a skeleton, never existed. Multiple misleading posts on Twitter made people believe that it did.