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What is brainrot?
Before diagnosing a decline, decide what the word names and what it leaves out.
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You look up from your phone and an hour has gone into clips you couldn't describe five minutes later. Someone calls it brainrot, half joking, and you laugh, because the word fits. But it isn't clear what it accuses you of: damage to your mind, or only to your evening.
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