This unique meme aesthetic combines artificial intelligence, absurdist fiction, noisy sound design, and a healthy serving of cultural remixing. It has given rise to viral characters such as Tung Tung ...

Scroll through a tween's TikTok feed these days, and you're likely to stumble across a surreal parade of AI-generated creatures: a ballerina with a cappuccino for a head, a crocodile fused with a ...

Cartoonish AI creatures have fast become memes, inspiring a stream of new content such as “Brainrot Rap,” viewed 116 million times on YouTube. School-age Italian ...

The intense exchange last week between Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Mark Zuckerberg has yielded not only a video of the Facebook CEO struggling to answer questions, but also a series of memes invoking ...

Literally, it can be translated as "rotting brain" or "brain decay." But in internet parlance, it is used more generically to describe a decomposed mental condition brought about by extended exposure ...

The phenomenon known as Italian Brainrot features a cast of quirky AI-generated characters, such as a walking shark in oversized sneakers and a mug-headed ballerina, which have gained immense ...