In other words, brainrot is mostly used to describe something that will harm or damage your brain. It's meaningless drivel, ...

My parents spend half of the year on an island off the coast of North Carolina where many of the residents speak a distinct and alienating dialect of English—the Ocracoke or “Hoi Toider” brogue, which ...

Wikipedia is one of those rare digital miracles that feels like it live up to the vast promise of the web: a vast online encyclopedia, written and maintained by millions of volunteers across the world ...

Two-hundred billion views: that’s how many times people watched short-form videos on YouTube last year. They are always under 60 seconds, but usually last between 15 and 30 seconds, and your brain ...

If you’ve spent any time around kids lately, you’ve probably heard about “brain rot.” Named Oxford Word of the Year in 2024, it’s defined as the “supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or ...

Ever since the American Dialect Society selected a Word of the Year at its conference in 1990, over half a dozen English dictionaries have anointed an annual word or phrase that's meant to encapsulate ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) - Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the Year is “brain rot,” a term surging in popularity. According to the president of Oxford Languages, use of the term skyrocketed 230 percent ...

Oxford University Press has selected “brain rot” as the word of the year for 2024. “Brain rot,” though first recorded in Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, has emerged as a defining word of online, and ...

From heated political arguments with family members at the holiday table to the increasing and unrelenting toxicity of social media (not only about politics but also such seemingly innocuous topics as ...

What encompasses brain rot internet culture? In general, it’s the excessive consumption of repetitive, low-quality online media that contains such low standards for entertainment purposes that the ...