Squalanana is best documented as a character from the Roblox game Steal a Brainrot and from fan-reference sites that catalog Italian brainrot characters. Across the web sources I checked, the core description is consistent: Squalanana is a Brainrot God rarity character designed as a hybrid of a shark and a banana.
Community pages describe it as an animal-food fusion, and the gallery image associated with the character shows exactly that, a yellow banana-bodied shark with fins, tail, small eyes, and an open mouth, usually presented in an underwater scene. In other words, Squalanana follows the broader Italian brainrot formula very closely: an absurd AI-style mashup creature with a pseudo-Italian name.
That broader context matters because Italian brainrot itself is not a single canon franchise. Wikipedia and mainstream reporting describe it as a 2025 meme wave built around surreal, AI-generated creatures, fake-Italian naming, chaotic narration, and combinations of animals, foods, objects, and weapons.
Squalanana fits that pattern neatly. It does not seem to be one of the earliest headline characters discussed in mainstream explainers of the trend, such as Tralalero Tralala or Bombardiro Crocodilo.
Instead, it appears to be a later, game-centered entry that became visible through Steal a Brainrot and the fandom that grew around that game. The most stable facts about Squalanana are its game metadata.
Multiple web references agree that it was released on October 4, 2025, around 3 PM U.S. Eastern time.
Several guides tie that release to the Rebirth 16 update. Those same sources repeatedly list the same economic stats: a cost of $45M and income generation of $250K per second.
Community wiki entries and guide sites also classify it as a Brainrot God, which places it among the higher-value, prestige-style collectibles in the game. Because these numbers recur across separate pages, they are the safest concrete details to retain.
Its obtainment history is more complicated, but still partly traceable. PlayBrainrot and Steal a Brainrot community wiki material say Squalanana was first obtainable through the Craft Machine.
The commonly repeated Craft Machine recipe is 2x Tralalero Tralala plus 2x Tipi Topi Taco. Later references say its obtainment changed over time, with Squalanana also appearing through Fishing, the Brainrot Trader, and eventually the Cyber Craft Machine.
Some pages describe those as historical paths rather than permanent simultaneous methods, so the cleanest factual summary is that Squalanana has been tied to several acquisition systems over the life of the game, beginning with crafting and later rotating into other mechanics. What is notably missing is a solid, independent lore trail.
The pages that use headings like Origin Story mostly restate gameplay facts, release timing, visual description, and crafting methods. I did not find a clearly sourced standalone narrative, first-post archive, or well-documented canon biography for Squalanana outside that game ecosystem.
One fandom page includes the signifier text "im tralala cousin," which hints at a playful relationship to Tralalero Tralala, the famous shark character associated with early Italian brainrot. That resemblance is believable at the level of theme, because Squalanana also uses a shark base and a nonsense hybrid design, but there is not enough evidence to treat that as formal canon rather than fan labeling.
Creator attribution is also uncertain. The provided page metadata names @ViralSplash.io, while the Steal a Brainrot Fandom page lists BRAZILIAN SPYDER in a creator field.
That does not clearly resolve who invented the specific character concept, because BRAZILIAN SPYDER is also the name associated with the Roblox game ecosystem itself, and page-level metadata can refer to a site or page author rather than a character creator. The gallery page even refers to "the meme where Squalanana is based off," which suggests an earlier image or meme source exists, but the accessible page does not identify that source directly.
Because of that conflict, any precise claim about who originally created Squalanana would be speculative, and speculation would be worse than admitting uncertainty here. Taken together, the most defensible description is this: Squalanana is a later Italian brainrot-style shark-banana hybrid whose documented identity comes mainly from Steal a Brainrot community records.
It is known less for a richly archived standalone myth and more for its recognizable visual gag, high rarity tier, and useful in-game economy stats. If someone encounters Squalanana in the wild, the reliable things to say are that it is a banana-shark fusion, treated by community sources as a Brainrot God, dated to October 4, 2025 in Steal a Brainrot, and associated with a $45M cost and $250K/s income.
Beyond that, especially on questions of creator credit or deeper lore, the honest answer is that the web evidence is incomplete.
