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Last year, ‘brain rot’ was crowned Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the Year, a term which captured concerns about the impact of consuming “excessive amounts of low-quality online content, especially on ...

Brain-rot, ' chosen by Oxford University Press as the word of the year 2024, refers to a state of mental and intellectual deterioration caused by constantly staring at easily consumable content on ...