These are early symptoms of brain rot. If you do understand all the memes below, you may have an advanced case. Touch grass immediately and call your doctor in the morning.

Brain rot is closely linked with the proliferation and overuse of memes. Popularised in particular by the now-defunct video platform Vine, memes are now all the rage on TikTok and social media ...

Slop, rap beef, brain rot and, yes, “hawk tuah” — what a year it’s been on the internet. We’ve come quite a ways since the days of dank memes and lolcats. IE 11 is not supported.

Popularity. One meme hasn’t particularly broken out from the brain rot pack, which means that when one goes viral, they all do. In the case of Barella Nutella Cucurella, the summer soccer season ...

Brain rot is what happens when it’s no longer a joke. “Don’t you dare gatekeep you pick me , I do a GRWM for my OOTD, but I don’t have the proper ring light,” she said in one video .

A chimpanzee-banana hybrid called Chimpanzini Bananini. A cappuccino ballerina named Ballerina Cappuccina. A grinning crocodile bomber jet dubbed Bombardiro Crocodilo. Apparently, these are the stars ...

It takes more than a few rat memes to qualify for brain rot. According to healthy device management expert Don Grant, PhD, "'Brain rot' is a term used to describe the negative psychological impact ...

Brain rot is an entertaining way to talk—more appealing and adaptable than the manic ... McCulloch also wrote a linguistic analysis of doge memes for the now-defunct blog The Toast in 2014, ...

A TikToker (right) thought he had developed 'internet brain rot' because he recognised Thomas Lea's famous That 2,000 Yard Stare painting (centre) from internet memes (top and bottom right).