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 ...

But that is not all. Artificial intelligence also helped netizens in crafting memes and continuing the storm of hilarity on the internet. Recently, a lot has been said by critics, commenters, and ...

Despite the end of Ramadan, the meme continues to spread across the app, proving that Tung Tung Tung Sahur isn’t leaving the internet anytime soon. It’s just one of the many brain-rot memes ...

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 ...

The tragic teen front-flipped from Margate pier and was left with severe brain damage ... as Jack's care team are "leaving him to bed rot". Jack's stepfather, Dave Dolan, 35, has opened up ...

AI news channels have alleged the kill list of Tim Cheese, an anthropomorphic mouse with glasses. As per viral videos on TikTok, the AI-generated mouse has been on a killing rampage. The list ...

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.

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Sport could be the answer. At the end of 2024, the Oxford English Dictionary announced that their word of the year – as voted by 37 000 people – was “brain rot”. To clarify, the annual word of the ...

Western TikTok users have been overwhelmed by Italian brainrot memes like Tralalero Tralala and Bombardiro Crocodilo lately, but one of the hottest new foreign-language brainrot memes comes from ...