Most Zoomer and Gen Alpha social media users are probably familiar with the term “brain rot.” Brain rot has earned its place in the Merriam-Webster dictionary (are these still being printed?) and was even Oxford’s 2024 Word of the Year. The Webster definition of brain rot is “mindless digital content; the fixation on it and the harmful mental effects of it.” The smart folks at Oxford give an even more in-depth analysis. In all fairness, they had plenty of material to pull fro