Lady Gaga and Bowen Yang have an important message for those suffering from brain rot: stop using all the slang you learned from TikTok. During a sketch on SNL, the two stop their friend from saying ...
These cases of brain fog often resolve once the stressor has passed. Created with Sketch. Stress is a common cause of brain fog because stress—and especially chronic stress—keeps our nervous ...
The YouTube Shorts colonization movement is a trend aiming to bring brain rot content to YouTube before the TikTok ban is set ...
"Let's take school for example," Nelson said of how brain rot can manifest. "You're sitting in class and you're trying to focus. They're going to be looking around, not attending to what the ...
The Out of Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture is a weekly deep dive into the secrets of youth culture, examining the current trends, slang, hashtags, and viral videos of Generations Z and A, and ...
The first recorded use of ‘brain rot’ was found in 1854 in Henry David Thoreau’s book Walden, according to Oxford University Press. “While England endeavours to cure the potato rot ...
It’s official. “Brain rot” is the Oxford dictionary’s word of the year. Many of us have felt that fuzzy feeling before, usually brought on by a digital overload. Oxford University Press ...
As gaming worlds expand, the debate persists about the influence of video games on mental health and whether they can “rot” ...
‘Brain rot’—the 2024 Oxford Word of the Year—describes the potential mental decline caused by spending way too many hours on your phone or computer. If you’ve ever surfaced from an hours ...