With calls growing for Claudio Ranieri to be tempted out of retirement yet again, this time to rescue Italy from Luciano ...

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.

Today, as Gen Z and Gen Alpha come of age in a hyperconnected world, their evolving slang reflects an online ecosystem drenched in pop culture references, viral memes and niche internet subcultures.

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 ...

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 ...

Many of us have felt it, and now it's official: "brain rot" is the Oxford dictionaries' word of the year. Oxford University Press said Monday that the phrase "gained new prominence in 2024," with ...

If you’ve been scrolling too long on social media, you might be suffering from “brain rot,” the word of 2024, per the publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary. After public consultation ...

In a historic and embarrassing first, an old Reddit meme may become an actual government agency in Donald Trump‘s second term as president, thanks to Elon Musk. Months before Trump’s ...