brainrot
We already have too much internet inside of us.
Drew Austin • The Meme Fossil Record
‘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
The results showed that real-life artworks activated the precuneus, the part of the brain associated with self-reflection. “Girl with a Pearl Earring” elicited the strongest response, inducing “deeper personal engagement and self-reflections” than the other works tested, according to the report. The pattern of artworks inducing stronger positive re
... See moreIsa Farfan • Original Art Stimulates the Brain More Than Reproductions, Study Finds
Macquarie Dictionary has named the 2024 word of the year enshittification ... no it has nothing to do with 💩 Rawdogging, fairy porn, brainrot and right to disconnect also made the shortlist. Choose your news on the ABC News app and stay in the know via the link in our bio. #ABCNews #WordOfTheYear
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quit brainrot. unfollow trolls. read essays. go down rabbit holes. have a calendar. maintain a todo list. read old books. watch old movies. turn on dnd. walk with intent. eat without youtube. chew more. train without music. plan for 15 mins. execute. organise your desk. take something seriously. read ancient scripts. act fast. find bread. eat clean... See more
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Common Ground on LinkedIn: “Brain rot” is the Word of the Year – but is short-form content really so…
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I prefer “brain poisoning, ” as the preceding discussion should support—it feels more precise. We are not decaying online so much as being incrementally loaded up with heavy metals like tuna in the ocean over the course of a lifetime, carrying this accumulation inside of us wherever we go.
Drew Austin • The Meme Fossil Record
The dark forest theory of the web points to the increasingly life-like but life-less state of being online. Most open and publicly available spaces on the web are overrun with bots, advertisers, trolls, data scrapers, clickbait, keyword-stuffing “content creators,” and algorithmically manipulated junk.