Even if it hasn’t infected your “For You” page yet, the latest iteration of Italian brain rot has been around for roughly half a year. Below, as much sense as we can make about the AI slop the ...

These are early symptoms of brain rot. If you do understand all the memes below, you may have an advanced case. Touch grass immediately and call your doctor in the morning.

It simply arrives, spinning silently or with ominous music. Brain rot memes thrive on overstimulation, nonsense logic, and dense cultural layering. They often parody digital information overload ...

As I observed in a column last year, the 2024 election was characterized online by its brain-rot memes, nonsensical collisions of imagery that produced a lot of noise but little coherent impact.

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 ...

The discussion on "brain rot" surfaced when a TikTok user discovered the real-life origin of a popular meme based on a World War II-era illustration called "The 2000 Yard Stare," showing a soldier ...

Brain rot is a symptom of mindless scrolling through nonsense memes and sludge content. It is the sensation of faculties warmly smothered by one too many AI-generated pictures; see the off-putting ...

That the memes are tagged brain rot is a cheeky acknowledgment that the content is “ridiculous” and “mumbo jumbo,” said Yotam Ophir, an associate professor of communication at the ...

The term was first seen in 1854 in Henry David Thoreau's book "Walden." Oxford University Press has officially dubbed "brain rot" its 2024 Word of the Year. Brain rot is defined as "the supposed ...