The phrase “brain rot” spiked 230 percent from 2023 to 2024, according to the makers of the Oxford English Dictionary

Many of us have felt it, and now it’s official: “brain rot” is the Oxford dictionaries’ word of the year. Oxford University Press said Monday that the

After a long day, we’ve all been guilty of mindlessly scrolling through our social media feeds, sometimes for hours at a time. This phenomenon has been dubbed "brain rot", and Oxford University Press has chosen the term as its word of the year for 2024.