If you’ve spent any time online lately — or near a basketball court, a TikTok comment section, or a group of teenagers — ...

TikTok brainrot isn’t just cringe anymore — it’s relentless. This video breaks down the trends, sounds, and formats that refuse to die and somehow keep getting worse. Short attention spans, recycled ...

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

Examining the 2025 social media landscape of AI slop and curated authenticity. This article analyzes how platform algorithms ...

UK rock force Artio want to make a real connection. Social media, they reckon on new album Soul Rot, is eating away at our ...

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

Take a closer look at what McDonald's French fries were made of in 1955 compared to 2025, and see how their ingredients and ...

"Brainrot" is what many people call the chaotic, fast-moving memes, sounds and catchphrases that spread across TikTok, Roblox ...

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

If you had any doubt that social media have taken over our lives, the words of the year (WOTY) for 2025 will dispel it—with ...

In 2024, the University of Oxford named “brain rot” as the word of the year.

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