When I first heard about TikTok's new meme trend, Italian brain rot, it reminded me of Sukumar Ray's Abol Tabol, a collection of Bengali nonsense verse. Only that was literature; this is actually ...

IF YOU FEEL YOUR KIDS ARE SPEAKING A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE FROM YOURS THESE DAYS, YOU ARE NOT ALONE. SOCIAL MEDIA, BRAIN ROT, MEMES AND PHRASES ARE TAKING OVER AND SHAPING HOW KIDS ENGAGE AND INTERACT.

"Ballerina cappucccina" is not the latest trend in fancy lattes. Instead, it's a dainty ballerina with a giant coffee mug for a head, a character from a popular TikTok meme in the category of ...

Brain rot has become a shorthand for low-effort stimulation from endless scrolling - but is this constant digital overload actually shrinking your brain?

From Jack Dorsey to Gen Alpha, everyone seemingly wants to go back to the internet of a decade ago. But is it possible to reverse AI slop and brain rot? Which implies, of course, that memes lack ...