While the adults chose "brain rot", Oxford University Press announced "kindness" as the Children's Word of the Year 2024. This comes from a study involving over 6 000 children aged 6 to 14 across the ...

Mindless digital content; the fixation on it and harmful mental effects of it,” the direct translation of the Oxford Word of ...

The deranged nonsense dominating the web recently led the publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary to name “brain rot” its word of the year. While brain rot can refer to harm, like the way ...

In case you missed it, the 2024 word was “brain rot.” Since 2004, the Oxford English Dictionary has chosen a “word of the year.” This word conveys a summary point of that particular span ...

Many of us may have read or heard about ‘brain rot’, announced by the Oxford University Press as the Word of the Year for 2024. After reading about it, most of us may have jumped onto Google ...

Online life changed the way we talk and write—then changed it again, and again, and so on, forever. This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to ...

Like it or not, brain rot is a real and growing issue in the digital age, and poses an urgent need for government to tackle it, lest Golden Indonesia 2045 remains just that: a vision.

Oxford University Press says “slay” is the top slang word of 2024 for kids. CBC Kids News asks Toronto teens what they think.

A new browser-based game, Stimulation Clicker, turns brain rot into a joyous pastime while also satirising how awful it can feel to gobble up the Web.