So what is the Italian spin on this nauseating trend, you ask? Italian brainrot is a Gen Alpha phenomenon that has taken ...

What began as strange, AI-generated nonsense on TikTok has grown into a worldwide craze, with celebrities and influencers ...

Italian Brainrot is a messy meme style that took off in the early 2020s on TikTok and reached full-fledged cultural phenomenon by 2025. Marked by ridiculous AI-created characters, enigmatic world ...

It’s not just weird memes from TikTok that are being turned into AI slop. Another popular topic for these “games” is the ...

Is ‘Italian brainrot’ the stupidest internet trend yet? From Minecraft movie mischief to crazy clowns, the internet has seen no shortage of ridiculous trends - but this one may take the cake.

TikTok Brainrot Is Normalizing Alt-Right Ideologies. Kieran Press-Reynolds. Wed, April 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM UTC. 7 min read. Illustration by Chris Panicker.

Several AI-based study tools are capitalizing on a “PDF to Brainrot” trend, which will read the text of a document you upload over “oddly satisfying” videos, like ASMR clips of mixing ...

What makes this wave of videos particularly bizarre is its overlap with brainrot memes. As Vril posts have exploded in recent weeks—over 700,000 TikTok videos use the hashtag—there’s been a ...