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Sidenote by AsapSCIENCE · BRAIN ROT: The Science of Mindlessly Scrolling · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

brain rot 2024 word of the year from the oxford dictionary referring to low quality low value content found on social media and the subsequent negative impact that consuming this type of content is perceived to have on an individual or society wow so like brain rot is the deterioration of a person's mental or intellectual state based on the overconsumption of online content that is trivial or unchallenging

Over 4 billion internet connected young adults spend 6.5 hours a day online, many of whom passively watch low value content.

I love how you're just like, you're Siri today.

Well, because it is like, I didn't actually know what brain rot was.

Everyone was just like brain rot.

And I was like, yeah.

And now I'm like, oh, it's the thing we all do.

i was like i was like okay obviously that's the rotting of your brain from the internet but like i didn't realize like brain rot was linked so closely to the fact it's almost interesting that young people are self-aware enough to be like yeah i'm watching low value content like yeah i think we all know but you're right that a young even kids who are like 10 it's like that's who they talk about brain rot content

well they were like skibbity toilet is like the root of it and like the idea is that kids actually know it's so stupid like yeah we're not like completely like random and we get canceled for stupid skibbity toilet well i was just like it's interesting that they're like yeah the whole point of this is that it's completely like nonsense yeah

And I was like, oh, that's like, I didn't know brain rot had anything to do, like, obviously, whenever someone said scabity toilet, I was like, I'm an elder millennial, like, I'm going cross-eyed, and I'm tapping out of this.

I don't want to know.

You're doing this flip thing so much and it's so intense and I'm actually like, it's freaking me out.

Okay.

You're like, it is actually so scary.

That's so dark.

I read about doom scrolling and didn't realize that wasn't brain rot.

But doom scrolling is when you compulsively... And I totally do this with Doug Ford.

It's like...

You look through.

Well, because doom scrolling, I didn't realize was when you're reading about the news that is negative.

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