Oxford University Press has named “brain rot” its word of the year. It's defined as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state,” especially from consuming too much low-grade online content.

Oxford University Press (OUP) has selected ’brain rot’ as its Word of the Year for 2024 after a public vote of over 37,000 participants. The term refers to the decline in mental and intellectual abilities caused by excessive consumption of trivial online content,

Oxford University Press has named 'brain rot' as its word of the year 2024, following a public vote of more than 37,000 people around the world.

Do you find yourself endlessly scrolling unchallenging content on social media? This year's Oxford word of the year could describe your exact situation.

Oxford University Press, publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary, has just released its 2024 Word of the Year. And it's not one you may have expected. Overall, there was a shortlist of six words that language experts created to reflect the moods and conversations that helped shape the past year—and coming in at the top is 'brain rot'.

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Do you get a weird feeling after scrolling through social media apps for hours while consuming mind-numbing content? If yes, then brain rot is the term to describe it. This term,

See what other terms made the Oxford University Press shortlist and what other publications chose as their word of 2024.

The term "brain rot" has been named the Word of the Year for 2024 by Oxford University Press, the publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). The phrase describes the perceived decline in mental/intellectual ability due to excessive consumption of social media content with no coherent narrative.

Oxford University Press, the publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary, enlisted the help of more than 37,000 people to vote for a winning word from a shortlist of six words. It defined "brain rot" as the "supposed deterioration of a person's mental or intellectual state,

Capping off a year that proved, without a shadow of a doubt, that non- A.V. Club readers are spending too much time ingesting the worst shit imaginable online, the Oxford University Press has named “brain rot” Word of the Year.