If you're chronically online on TikTok, chances are you have been seeing the "Brain Rot Words List" on your FYP. But really, what is the "Brain Rot Words List" all about? Well, according to our ...

The expression “brain rot“ was chosen as Word of the Year by over 37,000 people from a list of six words proposed by Oxford University Press, after two weeks of voting.

The first recorded use of ‘brain rot’ was found in 1854 in Henry David Thoreau’s book Walden, according to Oxford University Press. “While England endeavours to cure the potato rot ...

First written down by Henry David Thoreau in 1854, brain rot became the Oxford Dictionary Word of the Year in 2024. While this isn’t a medical condition that can be diagnosed, it is a feeling ...