Scrolling through silly or nonsensical social media posts can have an unofficial side effect: "brain rot." Why it matters: It's a phrase Oxford University Press said "gained new prominence in 2024 ...

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Canadian researcher Masoud Kianpour warns that online brain rot is undermining peoples’ storytelling skills. The Toronto ...

The expression “brain rot“ was chosen as Word of the Year by over 37,000 people from a list of six words proposed by Oxford University Press, after two weeks of voting. “Our experts noticed ...

Absurd, random and degraded content is taking the internet by storm. But what is brain rot, why was it named Oxford’s word of ...

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Brain rot is defined as "the supposed deterioration of a person's mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content ...

While the adults chose "brain rot", Oxford University Press announced "kindness" as the Children's Word of the Year 2024. This comes from a study involving over 6 000 children aged 6 to 14 across the ...

LONDON — 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 evocative phrase “gained ...