I’d stumbled across the Pine Wizard Frog—a recurring character on the official TikTok account of household cleaning fluid ...

The short-form videos we gobble up every time we log onto Instagram, TikTok or Facebook might be making us dumber.

The last time you watched your favorite television show, did you pay attention all the way through? Or did you pick up your phone to scroll Instagram or check for missed notifications? This is "brain ...

A recent meta-analysis concerning short-form video, mental health, and attention spawned a lot of tech panic. Did critics ...

In other words, brainrot is mostly used to describe something that will harm or damage your brain. It's meaningless drivel, ...

A woman shows her TikTok feed outside the US Supreme Court after it ruled against the Chinese-owned app’s attempt to overturn a ban by arguing that it infringes the First Amendment of the US ...

Multiple US studies have now confirmed the negative side effects of consuming low-quality online content such as TikTok ...

Discover the surprise viral trend of 2025 and other hits that dominated feeds this year including Gen Alpha slangs and ...

As TikTok quickly made its comeback after a brief ban, the ability to brain rot is as available as ever. Snow days make it easy to fall victim to mindless scrolling and lying in bed for hours. Before ...

As of 2025, there are 1.12 billion monthly active users on TikTok. And around the world, users spend an average of 95 minutes per day scrolling through the app. While the platform might be a great ...

Politically, culturally, spiritually, let’s face it: 2025 has been a pretty weird year. 2025 was the year of the Labubu. In April, the toothy, fluffy monsters from Hong Kong toy company Pop Mart ...

But in 2026, this type of content will become increasingly subversive, Napoli says. “This trend stems from the fact that ...