Brain rot describes overconsuming low quality social media content. Casper Grathwohl of Oxford University Languages discusses how brain rot was selected.

“Brain rot” is the 2024 Oxford Dictionary Word of the Year, adding to a growing list of Internet-specific words chosen by dictionaries as words of the year.

Oxford University Press has officially dubbed "brain rot" its 2024 Word of the Year. Brain rot is defined as "the supposed deterioration of a person's mental or intellectual state, especially ...

The Oxford University Press -- the publishing house of the University of Oxford -- announced that "brain rot" is the 2024 Word of the Year after more than 37,000 votes and an analysis of its use ...

Oxford University Press selected 'brain rot' as the Word of the Year, reflecting concerns about mental decline from excessive consumption of low-quality online content. The term saw a 230% ...

Following a public vote involving more than 37,000 people, "brain rot" was deemed the 2024 Oxford Word of the Year.

"Brain rot" has been declared the Oxford Dictionary's word of the year. The term is defined as "the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the ...

Oxford University Press has named “brain rot” as its word of the year for 2024.

In addition to 'brain rot,' the following five words were found by Oxford University Press experts to have gained a spike in usage and prominence this year.

Brain rot is also the outfit’s word of the year in 2024, given its rise in popular culture this year.

If you’ve been scrolling too long on social media, you might be suffering from “brain rot,” the word of 2024, per the publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary. After public consultation ...