Brain rot describes overconsuming low quality social media content. ... The Oxford Word of the Year is brain rot. December 3, 2024 5:04 AM ET. Heard on Morning Edition. By .

Brain rot. On Monday, Oxford University Press -- the publishing house of the University of Oxford -- announced that "brain rot" is the 2024 Word of the Year after more than 37,000 votes and an ...

While the use of “brain rot” rose 230% this year, it actually first appeared more than a century ago. The Cambridge Dictionary Word of the Year is… ‘Manifest’ ...

From 2023 to 2024, the term “brain rot” increased in usage frequency by 230%, ... More than 37,000 people voted this year. The term “brain rot” was selected from a short list of six words.

Oxford University Press reported use of “brain rot” surged by 230% this year compared to last year. The selection process combined a public vote with language analysis by Oxford lexicographers.

The word of the year is intended to be “a word or expression that reflects a defining theme from the past 12 months.” “Brain rot” was chosen by combining public vote and language analysis ...

The team at Oxford notes that "brain rot" got a lot of attention over the past year; the term's use increased by 230% between 2023 and 2024. But it especially picked up a lot of steam during the ...

It’s not surprising that so many voters embraced the term, endorsing it as our choice this year.” The first recorded use of “brain rot,” according to Oxford University Press, was in Henry ...

Note that “brain rot” doesn’t appear in the OED. Neither does “rizz” or “goblin mode,” which won as word of the year in 2023 and 2022, respectively.

“Brain rot” is the 2024 Oxford Dictionary Word of the Year, adding to a growing list of Internet-specific words chosen by dictionaries as words of the year.

But, it turns out, the idea of brain rot is nothing new. My dad has been using a variation of this phrase since the ‘80s, but, in fact, it’s been used for over 150 years to talk about brain ...