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 ...

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 Italian Brainrot takes its cue from the Anglo-Saxon-derived English idiom "brain rot." Literally, it can be translated as "rotting brain" or "brain decay." But in internet parlance, it is used ...

In a Japanese shop selling pocket-money trinkets, there is a rack of toys, stickers and keyrings based on a global crew of AI-generated characters that almost every child knows about — and very few ...

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 ...