If a kid in your life keeps chanting “Tralalero Tralala” or “Bombardiro Crocodilo,” you’ve been hit by Italian brain rot.

TOKYO, Japan — 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 — ...

Roblox’s Steal a Brainrot, based on “Italian Brainrot” memes, has become a breakout hit—the Roblox/Fortnite game recently hit almost 24 million players in a single day. Roblox is the gaming hub of ...

The Guess Italian Brainrot or Die is a new meme QnA which will task you with picking the correct meme. The mode all comes with three difficulty settings: Easy, Medium, and Hard, and based on what you ...

Freelance journalist and broadcaster, writing about music and the arts. You may have seen the term bandied about, you may even have heard one of the mind-numbing (yet infuriatingly catchy) songs, and ...

If you’re the parent of a t(w)een, the memes that fill your social media feeds are probably a whole lot different than your teenager’s. You might be used to seeing a distracted boyfriend, a dog ...

A walking shark in oversized sneakers, an orange with muscular arms and a twirling "Ballerina Cappuccina" with a mug for a head are among the strange stars of the online phenomenon called Italian ...

If you were given the tools to make any video game you wanted, what would you make? It sounds like a simple question, we grant you, but if you really think about it, it’s rather difficult to answer ...

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Terms that once lived in niche corners of Twitch, TikTok, and group chats now spread across the internet in a matter of days. Some, like "W" and "chat," emerged from livestreaming culture. Others, ...

From global loanwords and garbled Italian, the slang of the children of millennials doesn’t just share elements with Minionese, it may have absorbed it ...