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AI Brain Rot: How a Word Became a Genre
From Thoreau to Oxford's Word of the Year to AI-generated surrealist video: how brain rot became a genre, an advertising aesthetic, and a complaint.
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AI slop culture
The memes, the backlashes, the shorthand. This section tracks how people actually talk about AI-generated content - the jokes, the slang, the fatigue - rather than what the vendors say about it.
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AI Fatigue: The Cost of Checking Everything
What AI fatigue feels like, why it is a rational response rather than a fragility, and the point at which it turns into something worse than tiredness.
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AI Slop Memes: The Jokes the Term Produced
The memes that grew out of AI slop: Shrimp Jesus, Italian brainrot, Microslop, the em dash argument, and a phrase that became a comment-section reflex.
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“Your AI Slop Bores Me”, Explained
A guide to the viral site where humans answer your prompts while pretending to be an AI: what it is, who made it, and why the joke landed.