Explore how "brain rot" and "rage bait" create a cognitive decline that allows autocratic leaders to manipulate public ...

Oxford University Press shortlisted 'aura farming', 'biohack', and 'rage bait' for Oxford Word of the Year 2025. Scroll down ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - Last year's word of the year was brain rot, a term many people used to describe being chronically online.

Clickbait relied on curiosity. Rage bait relies on us, knowing that if content makes you angry, you spend longer with it, share it more often, and return to the platform quickly.

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It took about 70 years for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary to be completed. Conceived in 1857, the project ...

The rising impact of social media and artificial intelligence (AI) left a lasting impact on language in 2025 as terms related ...

In other words, brainrot is mostly used to describe something that will harm or damage your brain. It's meaningless drivel, ...