Every decade or so, adults discover that young people are consuming media that corrupts their minds — and a moral panic ensues. Comic books were going to produce a generation of delinquents.

Brain rot and dopamine junkie are internet slang terms often used on social media to describe a state where the brain has become accustomed to immediate stimulation, such as short-form videos, gacha ...

Copyright law in the US only applies to human-made creations, but AI characters like Tung Tung Tung Sahur are challenging ...

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 ...

Oxford University Press has chosen “brain rot” as its word of the year. The word is defined as “supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as a result of ...

This strange, almost absurdist form of content has become known as brain rot. Merriam-Webster defines this phenomenon as ...

Dr. Heitmayer is an assistant professor at Rowan University who studies technology distraction, attention economics and ...