The Crawling Flour meme features a stop-motion or digitally edited piece of dough or flour that moves in a skittering, insect-like fashion across a surface. Often set to eerie or frantic music, it became a viral sensation on platforms like TikTok and Instagram as a representation of 'cursed' or surreal imagery. Users typically employ this template to describe feelings of social anxiety, late-night hunger, or the state of their 'last brain cell' during a stressful situation. Its popularity stems from the uncanny valley effect of seeing an inanimate kitchen staple move with such lifelike, albeit disturbing, agility.