Is this my “Old Man Yells at (Digital) Cloud” moment? Gone are the days when our memes are all man-made. Just a couple years ago, the internet’s favorite absurd animals were photoshopped images of a ...

Oxford University Press just announced its always-anticipated word of the year. No, it’s not some pretentious jargon only uttered by the world’s top thinkers. It’s a trendy expression that won’t ...

Oxford University Press has chosen “brain rot” as its word of the year. The word is defined as “supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as a result of ...

A TikTok scroll at 3 a.m. A surrealist AI crocodile in a bomber jacket narrates absurd Italian-accented nonsense about ...

Slop, rap beef, brain rot and, yes, “hawk tuah” — what a year it’s been on the internet. The colloquial definition of memes has expanded to include any type of viral internet phenomenon, including ...

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 ...

The brain is a muscle, leaving it to rot is a choice. We can take proactive steps to counteract the risk of cognitive depletion, and the emotional drain that comes with it. Brain rot symbolizes the ...

With short-form video now dominant on social media, researchers are racing to understand how the highly engaging, algorithm-driven format may be reshaping the brain. From TikTok to Instagram Reels and ...

"Brain rot" refers to mindless, often absurd online content popular with kids and tweens, especially on TikTok and Roblox. A viral subgenre called "Italian brain rot" features surreal AI characters ...

Fake pranks, “sigma” edits, AI-generated nonsense videos, random people shouting into cameras, and talentless dance clips are ...

I open my DMs to an Instagram gallery my younger sister sent me of the zodiac signs as different rats. "Lmao so me," I absentmindedly respond upon deeming my rat acceptable. Our conversations ...