Turning results into FIFA pack opening: the Dutch secondary school TikTok craze, and a small extension with the right name

Dutch secondary school students turned "checking grades" into FIFA gacha: new scores sit hidden behind a card, play a player walk-in animation, then flip to reveal. The craze exploded on TikTok from 9 to October this year, and within a month at least 6 similar Chrome extensions appeared. Somtoday Pack Opener is the simplest of them: free, offline, and it reached 6,000 users in one month. Below: why it took off, why you probably shouldn't follow it in the Netherlands, and the empty space next door.

A line: "I only go viral when I fail"

In 2022 Feb 14, a TikTok account called @somtoday_pack_opening05 posted a video titled "Waarom ga ik alleen viraal als ik een onvoldoende heb😭", meaning "Why do I only go viral when I get a fail?" The video was hand-edited: their own Somtoday grades turned into FIFA pack openings, scores revealed bit by bit. To date it has 217k views, and another video from the same account has 125k. The same year, @magister.pack (67k) and @somtoday.cijfer.packs (30k) were making the same thing (TikTok, 11-06).

The demand sat there for four years without anyone turning it into a tool. Somtoday and Magister are the two student systems most used by Dutch secondary schools. Students check their grades there every day, and the official systems offer no fun way to display them.

In 2026 autumn, someone turned the joke into an extension

In 2026 Jun 12, a team called Cijfer Reveal released a Magister-version extension. After the first round of tests came out when school started in September, its TikTok account @cijferreveal posted a video with 100k views in Sep 12, and in Oct 6 it announced "Somtoday is now supported too" (60k views). Afterwards accounts like @magisterultimateteam turned it into a full Ultimate Team: player cards, squads, a market, and penalty shootouts. In Nov 2, a "Magister fifa packopening" video got 300k views and nearly 10k likes (TikTok, 11-06). According to search results from the same period, a Somtoday pack-opening video from Oct 24 got about 600k views. The TikTok hashtag page shows 19.7M views.

Going through the comments on the 300k-view video, the most-liked one (754 likes) says:

mijn magister heeft dit niet😭 (My Magister doesn't have this😭)

Everything below is the same question written different ways: "Kan je dit op Somtoday krijgen??" "Ook voor somtoday?" "hoe heet ie bij somtoday" (What's it called for Somtoday?). There are also people asking "Werkt dit ook voor Smartschool", "voeg osiris toe", "Wanneer brightspace". Students from other school systems are queuing up too.

What it is

Somtoday Pack Opener was made by Tom Fleuren, an indie dev in the Netherlands. Listed in Oct 7, with 1.1 version(s) out by Oct 8. The store one-liner: "Open your Somtoday grades like card packs. Unofficial, only on the grades page."

It does one thing: on the grades page of the Somtoday student portal, every new grade becomes a card pack. Open it and you get a short animation, the score ticks up, and it lands on your card. Each pack opens once, you can reset, and you can turn the popup off. It only reads the scores already loaded on the page, and the browser only stores which packs have been opened. The GitHub README is blunt about it: grades and names are never sent to the author or any server, with no accounts, no analytics, no ads. The code is public on GitHub, 0 stars.

It's free, and there are no plans to charge for it.

Why it's the biggest of the Somtoday bunch

The numbers first (Chrome Web Store users, 11-06):

It had 1 4,000 users in Nov, reached 6 6,000 by Nov 3, and grew by half in five days. Its rating stayed at 5.0 reviews the whole time. User count rising while reviews don't move looks like kids seeing a video on TikTok, searching the store, and installing it, with nobody prompting them to leave a rating.

The Somtoday versions launched on the same October 6–7 dates: it has 6,000, Cijfer Reveal's Somtoday version has 2,000, and Somtoday Cijfers has 128. Three reasons:

1. The name is the search term. On TikTok people say #somtodaypackopener or "somtoday packopener", and its store name matches that exactly. Under the videos, many people ask "what's the Somtoday version called", and this is the one that's easiest to find. Somtoday Cijfers, with a name that doesn't match, has only 128 users. This is an inference, but the gap across the three makes the point.
2. Top extensions send it traffic. In the Chrome Web Store's "related extensions" section, the detail pages of CijferPacks, Magister Ultimate Team, and Cijfer Reveal voor Magister all list it, at positions 4, 5, and 11 (Chrome Web Store, 11-06). Extensions in this niche cross-link, so whoever is listed first gets attached.
3. It's light, so parents and schools have nothing to object to. No network calls, no login credentials, open source. Its rival Cijfer Reveal stores Magister login credentials locally to fetch grades. Under another TikTok tutorial, someone asked "Is dit eig wel veilig" (Is this even safe?). For users like that, "nothing gets sent out" makes it easy to trust (inference).

The author doesn't have a TikTok account, and I found no evidence they promoted it themselves. It rides a wave other people started.

Where the money comes from: none

It's free, with no in-app purchases and no paid page on its website. I didn't see anyone in this niche taking money either. Chrome extension store pages don't show revenue anyway. The users are middle schoolers with no credit cards, and neither schools nor parents will pay for "grade pack opening". The only way to make money is ads or funneling users to something else, and nobody is doing that yet.

Who's competing: the Dutch market is already crowded

In the week from Oct 5 to 10, at least 6 similar extensions hit Chrome. There's also a Pack Opening voor SOMtoday on Firefox (48 users), and a Magister version on Edge. The top two have already built out full Ultimate Team feature sets, with their own TikTok accounts posting videos continuously, and Cijfer Reveal has made an Android app. On Somtoday and Magister, a newcomer can't win the search terms or the placement on TikTok.

There are two structural problems too. First, meme-driven spikes like this usually fade within weeks. Second, retention is inherently weak: grades only open once, and once the novelty wears off there's no reason to come back. The upside is that students will want to open the next batch of grades when they come out (inference).

The empty space next door: Smartschool and other countries

Smartschool, which people asked about in the comments, is the student system used widely in Flemish Belgium. Its students also speak Dutch and scroll the same Dutch TikTok. The Chrome Web Store has plenty of Smartschool extensions, which shows these students do install extensions: Smartschool++ has 30k users, and there's a long list of others that calculate percentages, restyle the interface, or add achievements. But within what I could search on 11-06, I didn't find a single Smartschool version of "grade pack opening". (Not finding one doesn't mean none exists; I didn't check Firefox or Edge one by one.)

Further out: WebUntis in Germany, itslearning in the Nordics, PowerSchool and Canvas in the US. On English TikTok, "grade reveal" is already its own video genre. The extensions all work the same way: read the grades page, add an animation, and a weekend is enough to build one. The hard part is shipping before the trend peaks and picking the right name.

If it were you

Verdict: worth learning from, not worth following. The Dutch Somtoday and Magister markets are already packed, these extensions don't earn money, and the trend could fade within weeks. What's worth copying is the mechanic: turning a moment everyone is anxious about into a pack-opening animation, so users' screen recordings become the ads.

Who it suits: indie devs who want to practice and build something with thousands of users. It also fits anyone who went to school in Belgium, Germany, or elsewhere and knows which system local students use, and who can find students who make videos on local-language TikTok.

Who it doesn't suit: anyone hoping to make money from it (the users are middle schoolers and nobody pays); anyone trying to break into the Dutch Somtoday and Magister markets (6 players are ahead, and the top ones have built full Ultimate Team sets); anyone who doesn't want to touch school systems or is worried about complaints from schools or platforms.

How to do it: start with a Smartschool version, following the Somtoday Pack Opener approach: only work on the grades page, only read scores already on the page, no network calls, no login, open source, and spell out the privacy stance in the listing. Use the search terms students actually type as the store name, like "Smartschool Pack Opener". Ship to Firefox and Edge alongside Chrome, since half the questions under tutorial videos are "how do I install it on my phone or iPad". Same logic for other countries: first find out which system students there use.

How to get users: you don't need your own account. Find local student creators already posting "pack opening" or everyday school content, and give them something they can screen-record. Even more direct: reply under those popular videos with "the Smartschool version is called XX". People are already asking in the comments.

When to move: the sooner the better. The next big wave of grade releases is exam season at the end of the semester (December to January). Ship before then and claim the name first.

Ways this could go wrong: ① someone builds a Smartschool version before December and reaches thousands of users, and the spot is gone; ② Somtoday Pack Opener and CijferPacks stopped growing in November, showing the trend has already faded and switching systems won't revive it; ③ Somtoday, Magister, or Smartschool officially crack down on these extensions, or schools ban them, and the whole mechanic is affected.