Usage of the term has spiked 230% since 2023. It describes the 'deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state,' ...

Many of us have felt it, and now it’s official: “brain rot” is the Oxford dictionaries’ word of the year. Oxford University ...

Internet slang “brain rot” has been named Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the Year for 2024, but did you know it’s not the first ...

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

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

There’s a name for that feeling you get after spending too long scrolling aimlessly, and Oxford University Press (OUP) has ...

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 ...

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

Oxford University Press narrowed a list down to six words and the world had the opportunity to vote for its top choice.