The Truth About Brain Rot

Sep 21, 2026 · 53 min · YouTube

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0:00I want to talk about brain rot.
0:02Now, to my middle-aged millennial brain, when I think about brain rot, I think about it as something that happens to your brain.
0:08Like if you scroll too much, you begin to reduce your cognitive capacity.
0:14But Gen Z has another definition for this term.
0:17They use brain rot to describe a specific type of video content that is aggressively devoid of meaning.
0:26Let me give you an example here.
0:28This is a clip of a category of brain rot known as skibbity toilet.
0:32Let's play that.
0:37All right, let's do another example here.
0:39This is a clip of a category of brain rot that's popular where you use AI to create hybrid animals.
0:45For whatever reason, this is big in Italy.
0:47So this clip is in Italian.
0:48It is of what is known as trippy tropie.
0:51Let's look at that.
0:56I can tell you right now, MIT is really proud about having given me a doctorate after watching me present trippy troppie and skiddivity toilet to the public.
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