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mattgreenrocks ◴[] No.46254143[source]
All ages benefit from time-limited exposure to social media. We have a term for it now: brainrot. Fully convinced it is the cigarettes of our generation: ubiquitous enough to be pervasive despite negative externalities.
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colechristensen ◴[] No.46254425[source]
"brainrot" is not used that way

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=brainrot

The best definition I see is

> the crippling addiction to low effort content

But also have seen it used plenty to refer to the low effort content itself

Brainrot is a small portion of social media

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1. oersted ◴[] No.46254507[source]
I have seen it used plenty by younger people even in a positive sense as a genre label for the aesthetics and humor of their generation.