Feel like too much low-quality screen time is making you … dumber? From focusing on your environment to ‘washing’ your brain, experts share tips on how to sharpen up and keep your mind fighting fit ...

Doomscrolling. Instagram obsessions. Mindless YouTube video viewing. Distracting behaviours, yes, but can they actually rot a person's brain? Last year, Oxford University Press designated "brain rot" ...

new video loaded: MrBeast Says YouTube’s Content Has Less ‘Brain Rot’ Than TikTok transcript “Jonathan Haidt — I don’t know if you know Jonathan — he’s written a book. He says that kids shouldn’t have ...

The term brain rot was voted Oxford University Press’ word of the year in 2024, an unusual honor for a phrase that started as online slang. OUP defines it as the supposed deterioration of a person’s ...

Over 200 groups warn YouTube about “AI slop” harming kids. Should AI-generated videos be banned from YouTube Kids?

If you don’t know the term “brain rot” by now, congratulations! You probably don’t have it. It’s slang to describe the idea that being “very online” is harming our brains. It also describes the ...

You grab your phone and in that first swipe, you see someone traveling the world. Why aren’t you on vacation? Swipe again, and someone is living off the grid. Wow, shouldn’t you get rid of your laptop ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The effects that short-form "junk" content has on LLMs reveal how this is not a problem for just some members of society ...