If you spend hours and hours in the midst of foreign visitors, and the reels on Instagram-it-and TikTok-by, you may suffer from “it's rot,” which in chinese can be translated as “the decay the brain. This is a term created by the Oxford University Press, and is the all purpose word for the year that is going to end."
As reported by the BBC, it is a term that is intended to identify the concerns about the impact that might have the excessive consumption of material, quality of the lowest on the web as they memet, which registered an increase of 230 per cent from the year 2023 to 2024. Andrew Przybylski, a psychologist and professor at the University of Oxford, says that the popularity of the word, it is a “symptom of the period in which we live, and, in fact, “it's rot” has risen to five, phrase, or in other words there is a list of the strait. of the candidates, including the prices of the one, romantazi and dynamic.
“It's rot”, defines the phenomenon of the deterioration of the supposed state of mental health, or intellectual property of a person who, as related to the consumption of too much material is banal, or jostimulues. The term first became popular in the middle of the communities in the Gen Z and Gen Alpha, but now it is also used in the main course to describe the content high to low price-low on the social media.
Professor Przybylski, however, notes that the “there is no evidence that the decay of the brain, it is a real problem,”but rather describes a “our dissatisfaction with the online world, and it is the one word that you could use to sum up the anxieties that we have on social media”.
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