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

Words change their meaning over time, and in the year that's passed since Oxford's honor, the internet has shifted more ...

Two-hundred billion views: that’s how many times people watched short-form videos on YouTube last year. They are always under 60 seconds, but usually last between 15 and 30 seconds, and your brain ...

Doomscrolling. Instagram obsessions. Mindless YouTube video viewing. Distracting behaviors, yes. But can they actually rot a person's brain? Last year, Oxford University Press designated "brain rot" ...

The term brain rot was voted Oxford University Press’ word of the year in 2024, an unusual honor for a phrase that started as online slang. OUP defines it as the supposed deterioration of a person’s ...

The moment ‘brain rot’ entered the Oxford dictionary, it went viral. People began using it for everything. Before this, many ...

It's late at night and I am scrolling through TikTok. My dizzying feed takes me past cat videos - Chesterbelle, the overweight feline on a weight loss journey, is a current favourite - cooking clips ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Excessive consumption of content on social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram can lead to brain rot. Those are the findings of a recent study put forth by the American ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." If you are parenting in 2025 and your kid owns a device, you might recognize this real-life convo as just ...

I’ll admit it: I’m a bit of a screenager. Like many Gen Z-ers, I was raised with easy access to the internet, and it’s become commonplace in my daily life. On top of that, I have ADHD. With a brain ...

The premise of the 2008 dystopian movie Wall-E, if you can remember that far back, was that humans in the 29th century will have devolved into an inactive and grossly overweight species living on a ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." “That’s my strawberry elephant and my La Vaca Saturno Saturnita.” “We will see. This will be the best ...