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

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 ...

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.

It turns out that the slang "brain rot" may not be an inaccurate description of what's actually going on in our domes while we endlessly scroll TikTok. The nefarious thing? These symptoms are ...

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 unofficial mental health diagnosis is dubbed brain rot. The OED defines brain rot (sometimes collapsed to brainrot) as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual ...

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 ...