"Ballerina cappucccina" is not the latest trend in fancy lattes. Instead, it's a dainty ballerina with a giant coffee mug for a head, a character from a popular TikTok meme in the category of ...
Oxford’s Word of the Year in 2024—has now collided with hard data. A 2025 peer‑reviewed review in Brain Sciences describes ...
Doomscrolling. Instagram obsessions. Mindless YouTube video viewing. Last year, Oxford University Press designated "brain rot" as its word of the year, defining it as the "supposed deterioration of a ...
Short-form video is dominant on social media, and so many of us are constantly scrolling as our algorithm feeds us entertaining clips. So is it causing “brain rot?” This internet slang term has been ...
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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tyler Essary / TODAY Illustration / Getty Images (Tyler Essary / TODAY Illustration / Getty Images) Has spending too much time ...
Absurdist internet slang and content dubbed “brain rot” has become increasingly prevalent online in recent years, shaping ...
Brain rot has become a shorthand for low-effort stimulation from endless scrolling - but is this constant digital overload actually shrinking your brain?
Doomscrolling. Instagram obsessions. Mindless YouTube video viewing. Distracting behaviors, yes. But can they actually rot a person's brain? Last year, Oxford University Press designated "brain rot" ...