Short-form video is dominant on social media, and so many of us are constantly scrolling as our algorithm feeds us ...

The term “brain rot” dates back to Henry David Thoreau’s 1854 book Walden,but in the digital age, it has become Oxford University Press’ 2024 Word of the Year. With people averaging nearly seven hours ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." In 2024, “brain rot” was the Oxford word of the year. They defined it as “the supposed deterioration of a ...

Ever spend a little too much time scrolling through social media or binge-watching shows and end up feeling…fuzzy? The phrase “brain rot” has exploded online, used to describe everything from too much ...

I’d stumbled across the Pine Wizard Frog—a recurring character on the official TikTok account of household cleaning fluid ...

Teens talk about their “brain rot” online. While there isn’t data to back it up, per se, experts do have concerns about the ...

Multiple US studies have now confirmed the negative side effects of consuming low-quality online content such as TikTok ...

Asheville, North Carolina — Katy Paige Rosenberg, a freshman at the University of North Carolina Asheville, recently realized what too much scrolling on her phone was doing to her. She estimates she ...

The first thing students like Justis Walker do when they wake up is open Instagram and start scrolling through Reels. Phones resting mere inches from their faces, images of dancing fruit and ...

On January 18, 1927, the Frankfurter Zeitung daily newspaper featured one of the celebrated feuilletons Joseph Roth had lately been dispatching from the frozen expanses of the Soviet Union, this time ...

Data from Gallup and the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that Americans are reading fewer books and spending less time reading than ever. Books vs. Brain Rot: why it's so hard to read Data from Gallup ...

The term "brain rot" refers to how low-quality internet content may slow your brain function. It's usually tied to watching specific types of content, usually nonsensical, embarrassing, or weird. But ...