Research has shown that smartphone addiction causes major increases in brain activity, requiring the brain to work harder to ...

Italian Brainrot, also known as AI Italian Animals, refers to a series of brainrot-style AI videos, art and memes that ...

The YouTube Shorts colonization movement is a trend aiming to bring brain rot content to YouTube before the TikTok ban is set ...

As gaming worlds grow larger and more detailed, the debate persists about the influence of video games on mental health and ...

TikTok users are planning the ‘colonization’ of YouTube Shorts with a takeover of ‘brainrot’ memes on March 25 to combat the ...

I think of brain-rot internet memes as springing fully formed from the collective unconscious of the internet like Athena sprang from the head of Zeus, but the culture vultures at KnowYourMeme ...

In this juxtaposition lies the heart of our exploration: Has language, from the florid heights of the Renaissance to the meme-saturated quips of today, devolved into a state of "brain rot"?

‘Brain rot’—the 2024 Oxford Word of the Year—describes the potential mental decline caused by spending way too many hours on your phone or computer. If you’ve ever surfaced from an hours ...