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Rae Witte (October 25, 2025). "The Wikipedia Page on "Brain Rot" Is Protected Until 2026 Due to Extensive Vandalism". Futurism. In a particularly meta twist, the page for "brain rot" — let's just go with Wikipedia's definition, which is the "negative cognitive, emotional, and/or behavioral consequences" of consuming content that's "trivial, simplistic, or low in quality" — has been defaced so much that it's now protected against public edits until early 2026.

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A name has already been given for the second listed definition of brainrot: digital dementia. However, the term usually used by the internet ("brainrot") usually means slang in the 2024 range (ex.: "rizz", "ohio", "aura", "fanum tax", "maxxing", "son"), Skibidi Toilet and its name being endlessly repeated, Italian brainrot and Soviet brainrot. Maybe we could split this article into Brain rot and Digital dementia? ~2026-52251-45 (talk) 20:46, 1 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

It could also be worth expanding the problematic social media use article to cover any "brain rot" or "digital dementia" angle that it's currently missing. Belbury (talk) 09:23, 2 October 2026 (UTC)Reply