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Is “Six Seven” Really Brain Rot?
November 14, 2025
“Thank God it’s Friday.” “It’s hot outside.” “How’s it goin’?” “Can you believe this rain?” Malinowski described such utterances as forms of “phatic” communication. This somewhat awkward term, which...
IRL Brain Rot and the Lure of the Labubu
August 20, 2025
On a recent quiet weekday morning in Manhattan, I attempted to obtain a Labubu, the cutesy monster doll that has become the biggest international toy fad since Beanie Babies...
Can Using the Light Phone III Help Cure ‘Brain Rot’?
April 6, 2025
Dear readers, I have a confession: I am suffering from an ailment that the younger ones call “brain rot,” the inability to think deeply after too much scrolling on...