Brain Rot
“Brain rot is a vibe, honestly.”
Every year, a new word or phrase rises to encapsulate the zeitgeist, and 2024 is no exception. This year’s Oxford Word of the Year, “brain rot,” perfectly sums up the feeling of scrolling through TikTok at 3 a.m. or falling into a Reddit conspiracy rabbit hole. But what does it mean? Where did it come from? And how are people hilariously proving their own cases of brain rot online?
In our latest episode of Toonsplained, we break it all down—and let our cast of characters hilariously one-up each other with their most brain-rotting moments. From TikTok fails to the rise and fall of NFTs, here’s everything you need to know about this internet phenomenon.
