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Brain Rot Slang as AI Resistance: A Socio–Motivational Framework

2026-01-28

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<p>The mainstreaming of generative AI tools has coincided with renewed attention to youth slang, exemplified by Oxford University Press’s 2024 Word of the Year “brain rot” and Dictionary.com’s 2025 Word of the Year “67”. These trends have intensified concerns about the spread of semantically opaque, deliberately nonsensical slang among Generation Alpha, often framed as evidence of mental or cognitive decline. We p...

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