News Editor, Andrew Pilani lives under the rock, but aims to fix that. In this episode, he learns what "brainrot" means in a ...

During his visits to the hospital, he learned about a procedure, a "lobotomy" in which, according to the book, a surgeon would drill a hole in the skull and sever "certain connections in the ...

Ana Diaz (she/her) is a culture writer at Polygon, covering internet culture, fandom, and video games. Her work has previously appeared at NPR, Wired, and The Verge. Burnice, a character from the ...

Fears that the use of AI deepfakes would disrupt the flow of accurate information in a general election campaign have not come true. Instead we have been treated to a digital manifestation of ...

Initially born from the rise of Sigma male culture and the People Who Don’t Know vs. People Who Know meme, Those Who Know 💀 meme is a catchphrase whose text and imagery indicates that a ...

Balkan Rage became a copypasta brainrot meme at the end of August 2024, where users would comment a series of trending TikTok brainrot terms strung together with plus signs. One example is ...

Burnice, a character from the action game Zenless Zone Zero, has infected all my social media feeds. On Oct. 15, developer ...

In November 1941, Dr. James Watts carried out a frontal lobotomy on Rosemary Kennedy’s brain at a facility in upstate New York. A psychiatrist present at the lobotomy asked Rosemary to tell him ...

This is an animated video from Life Noggin that explores the dark, chilling, and shocking history of the lobotomy, how and why it was invented, the people who received the “treatment” and how it was ...