Tralalero Tralala is TikTok's latest viral brain rot meme. In the meme, an AI-generated shark wearing Nike shoes can be seen singing in a robotic Italian voice, chanting, "Trallallero Trallalla ...

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.

Tralalero Tralala is TikTok's latest viral brain rot meme. In the meme, an AI-generated shark wearing Nike shoes can be seen singing in a robotic Italian voice, chanting, "Trallallero Trallalla, porco ...

and you've been sucked into a whirlwind of memes, viral videos, and polarizing news articles. You feel drained, yet you can't seem to put your device down. This is brain rot in action—a subtle ...

George Orwell once wrote that every generation “imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it”. Today, the second part of ...

Dear readers, I have a confession: I am suffering from an ailment that the younger ones call “brain rot,” the inability to think deeply after too much scrolling on my phone. These days ...

Italian brain rot is a niche form of memes that went viral in January 2025. Photo by Michele Bitetto/Unsplash If we’re lucky in the Opinion section, we work through our beliefs completely and support ...

The meme’s basis—that stressed out, goofy dad Frank Heffley is schizophrenic—began with a November 2023 edit from The Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie. The scene, shared by @ledge0679, shows Frank ...