Dirt: Brain Rot
Is doom scrolling really rotting our brains? The evidence is getting harder to ignore | Siân Boyle
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‘Yeah, TikTok is for three things: learning stuff and feeling good about yourself, stalking people, and brain rot.’
In this way, brain rot is what we might call a ‘genre of participation’, to borrow a term from the work of the cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito. On a digital social media application like TikTok, with its endless different types of con... See more
In this way, brain rot is what we might call a ‘genre of participation’, to borrow a term from the work of the cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito. On a digital social media application like TikTok, with its endless different types of con... See more
Emilie Owens • Why teenagers are deliberately seeking brain rot on TikTok | Psyche Ideas
If a simplistic description of AI is computers learning to be more human, then the persistence of Hawk Tuah for six months and counting is the inverse: Humans learning how it feels to be a computer—forced to remember, unable to move on, endlessly consuming and regurgitating our past output in slightly different formats—a video here, a podcast there... See more
Drew Austin • The Meme Fossil Record
change. Overload speaks to our dazed mental reaction. Then there are the trivially obvious flood
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Common Ground on LinkedIn: “Brain rot” is the Word of the Year – but is short-form content really so…
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