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The meaning of brainrot keeps changing. Originally(?), it refered to a particular extreme/ADHD content understood only by the perpetually online. Remixes of the spinning oiia cat are pretty good examples: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IxX_QHay02M

This neuroscientist seema to be throwing the label on all of TikTok or all short form video. This seems barely more sophisticated with grouping together Lawrence of Arabia and Transformers 4 as movies.

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>>The meaning of brainrot keeps changing. Originally(?), it refered to a particular extreme/ADHD content understood only by the perpetually online. Remixes of the spinning oiia cat are pretty good examples: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IxX_QHay02M

I'm old and not with it ... to me that just looked like a low budget music video (flashey 'club' lighting, stock photo of a cat with simple CGI effect applied). How is this 'extreme/ADHD content' ?

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