Oxford University Press has selected “brain rot” as the word of the year for 2024.
“Brain rot,” though first recorded in Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, has emerged as a defining word of online, and especially meme, culture. It is used to refer to memes or content with little to no, and in some cases, deleterious, value.
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