Slop, rap beef, brain rot and, yes, “hawk tuah” — what a year it’s been on the internet. The colloquial definition of memes has expanded to include any type of viral internet phenomenon, including ...

Is this my “Old Man Yells at (Digital) Cloud” moment? Gone are the days when our memes are all man-made. Just a couple years ago, the internet’s favorite absurd animals were photoshopped images of a ...

IF YOU FEEL YOUR KIDS ARE SPEAKING A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE FROM YOURS THESE DAYS, YOU ARE NOT ALONE. SOCIAL MEDIA, BRAIN ROT, MEMES AND PHRASES ARE TAKING OVER AND SHAPING HOW KIDS ENGAGE AND INTERACT.

The meme draws viewers into a dense and absurdist world of a vertically rotating fish that appears in the oddest places. The Vertikal Rotierender Fisch (“Vertically Rotating Fish” in English) ...

A TikToker went mega-viral after spotting the physical artwork behind a viral meme. The upload sparked a discussion about the blurred lines between reality and online references. Some say they've ...

People who spend a lot of time on social media have noticed that the online world is increasingly creeping into the physical world. They’re attributing the phenomenon to “brain rot.” The term comes ...

Imagine a time traveler from the quaint, analog world of the 1990s arriving in 2025. They wouldn’t just be shocked by our technology; they’d be utterly baffled by our behavior. The subtle, pervasive ...

This is the seventh installment in a series of articles about the science of various aspects of college life. In a matter of weeks, “6 7” has transformed from two sequential numbers to a phrase so ...