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11 April 2018updated 24 Jun 2021 12:24pm

The unnerving, absurd, and surreal videos of Troom Troom

Who – or what – is behind the eerie YouTube channel with five million subscribers? 

By Amelia Tait

The blue-eyed girl is eating a raw sausage. I don’t know her name – and nor do the 69 million other people who have watched this YouTube video. Entitled “14 Weird Ways To Sneak Food Into Class”, the video features two women doing just that. These women are nameless, referred to by their traits (“the blue-eyed girl” and “my friend”) by a faceless narrator, on a channel known only as Troom Troom.

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