If you feel like your kids are speaking a different language these days – you’re not alone. Social media “brain rot” memes ...

Gen Alpha's baffling new slang, '67,' has left millennials and Gen Z confused, with even teachers and parents struggling to understand its meaning. Originating from a rapper's song and popularized by ...

The news from the other side of the world turned out to be that kids there had discovered “six seven.” On Halloween, our ...

Remember when your parents told you to stop watching T.V.? That if you watch too much, your brain will rot? I remember that ...

From viral slang to 'AI slop', hours have been lost silly, unchallenging feeds. As alarms sound about long term effects, one writer consults experts in neuroscience, psychology and cognition for a bra ...

A.I. search tools, chatbots and social media are associated with lower cognitive performance, studies say. What to do?

I’m wondering if there is a connection between the decline of local newspapers, decline in newspaper subscriptions and readership and “the creeping rot into our minds” described in the article written ...

If you’ve recently found your thoughts invaded by the likes “Ballerina Cappuccina” or “Pedro Pedro,” you’re not alone. Billions of people are consuming low-quality social media content every week, and ...

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at UVA chapter and does not reflect the views of Her Campus. Let’s face it, we’ve all fallen victim to short-form content and instant ...