It's defined as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state,” especially from consuming too much ...

"Brain rot," though first recorded in Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, has emerged as a defining word of online, and especially ...

If you’ve been scrolling too long on social media, you might be suffering from “brain rot,” the word of 2024, per the ...

This is Oxford University Press' Word of the Year. It's what happens when you scroll on social media too much.

Doomscrolling is so 2020 — we’re now in the year of “brain rot” instead. That’s 2024′s word of the year according to Oxford University Press, the Oxford English Dictionary’s publisher. For those ...

Brain rot is, as we outlined, a result of the overconsumption ... the non-digital daily grind and reading up on “the right to disconnect” (another word of the year phrase of the year flagged by ...

Oxford Languages has selected ‘brain rot’ as its Word of the Year for 2024, reflecting growing concerns about online ...

Gen Z and social media have successfully manifested another word of the year as two of the world’s leading English dictionaries make their picks for 2024. Last week, Cambridge Dictionary ...