The Vertikal Rotierender Fisch ('Vertically Rotating Fish') represents a weirdly familiar force of existential disruption.

As I observed in a column last year, the 2024 election was characterized online by its brain-rot memes, nonsensical collisions of imagery that produced a lot of noise but little coherent impact.

To many online, the images might ... Slop, rap beef, brain rot and, yes, “hawk tuah” — what a year it’s been on the internet. The colloquial definition of memes has expanded to include ...

Ballerina Cappuccino refers to an refers to an AI-generated Italian Brainrot meme character that is a hybrid between a female ...

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While brain rot is a real and pressing concern in our digital age, it is not an inevitable outcome. By approaching technology ...

No new memes? TikTokers declare March 2025 the start of the ‘Great Meme Depression’ ‘When I’m really old and have grandkids, I’m gonna tell my grandkids about the TikTok Great Depression ...

Bombardiro Crocodillo is one of the most recognizable figures in the TikTok brainrot trend, a meme genre defined by AI-generated absurdities narrated through exaggerated, often offensive, text-to-spee ...

Tralalero Tralala is TikTok's latest viral brain rot meme. In the meme, an AI-generated shark wearing Nike shoes can be seen singing in a robotic Italian voice, chanting, "Trallallero Trallalla, porco ...