‘Brain Rot’ Crowned Oxford’s Word of the Year: TikTok Trend Highlights Concerns of the Digital Age
A 19th-century concept first written about by Henry David Thoreau in ‘Walden’ trended high on the social media app.

Brain rot, a term that has gained popularity on Tiktok, was voted “word of the year for 2024,” according to the publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary.
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