Teens talk about their “brain rot” online. While there isn’t data to back it up, per se, experts do have concerns about the ...
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Sol, Brita, Amtrak—which brand is going to try to rot our brains next? A few months ago, I was scrolling through TikTok when ...
Words change their meaning over time, and in the year that's passed since Oxford's honor, the internet has shifted more ...
Ever spend a little too much time scrolling through social media or binge-watching shows and end up feeling…fuzzy? The phrase “brain rot” has exploded online, used to describe everything from too much ...
The short-form videos we gobble up every time we log onto Instagram, TikTok or Facebook might be making us dumber.
Explore how "brain rot" and "rage bait" create a cognitive decline that allows autocratic leaders to manipulate public ...
protect the brain as it ages. For the publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary, however, 2024 was the year of brain rot. "Brain rot" is a term that describes either the cause or effect of spending ...
After weeks of deliberation and more than 37,000 votes worldwide, the Oxford English Dictionary has announced a Generation Alpha slang term is its 2024 word of the year, "brain rot." Here's an ...