Oxford University's new word of the year epitomizes the mindlessness that dominates social media. “More than 37,000 people ...

Have you ever spent two hours on TikTok? Made several in-app purchases on Candy Crush while watching “The Office” for the sixteenth time? Lost yourself completely in the Instagram story of someone you ...

The term refers to "the supposed deterioration of a person's mental or intellectual state" that's linked to spending ...

The phrase “brain rot” spiked 230 percent from 2023 to 2024, according to the makers of the Oxford English Dictionary ...

How is this even entertainment? The heavy sigh and slightly hungover feeling this type of content elicits might best be described as brain rot—Oxford’s 2024 Word of the Year. Brain rot is ...

Oxford University Press names "brain rot" as its 2024 word of the year in a nod to modern scrolling habits. "The term has ...

Oxford University Press has officially dubbed "brain rot" its 2024 Word of the Year.

Capping off a year that proved, without a shadow of a doubt, that non- A.V. Club readers are spending too much time ingesting ...