IF YOU FEEL YOUR KIDS ARE SPEAKING A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE FROM YOURS THESE DAYS, YOU ARE NOT ALONE. SOCIAL MEDIA, BRAIN ROT, MEMES AND PHRASES ARE TAKING OVER AND SHAPING HOW KIDS ENGAGE AND INTERACT.

A TikTok scroll at 3 a.m. A surrealist AI crocodile in a bomber jacket narrates absurd Italian-accented nonsense about ...

The moment the SheKnows Teen Council settled around the table during one of our focus groups, the chaos began. “Wait, you don’t know Mango Funk?” one girl gasped, half-laughing, half-scandalized.

When I first heard about TikTok's new meme trend, Italian brain rot, it reminded me of Sukumar Ray's Abol Tabol, a collection of Bengali nonsense verse. Only that was literature; this is actually ...

From our jokes and slang to the White House’s policy messaging, internet “brain rot” has escaped our phones to take over … well, everything. Credit...Illustration by Erik Carter Supported by By Willy ...

From Jack Dorsey to Gen Alpha, everyone seemingly wants to go back to the internet of a decade ago. But is it possible to reverse AI slop and brain rot? Which implies, of course, that memes lack ...

You grab your phone and in that first swipe, you see someone traveling the world. Why aren’t you on vacation? Swipe again, and someone is living off the grid. Wow, shouldn’t you get rid of your laptop ...

To Gen Alpha, it’s just culture. What’s often dismissed as brain rot is not random noise. It’s a recognisable pattern of content built on repetition, absurdity and rhythm, designed not to explain ...