Brain rot slang
Subject in Social Sciences
Brain rot slang has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including TED Radio Hour. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Adam AleksicLinguist and TikTok creator featured in part two of the series
Aleksic maintains that so-called brain rot words are not actually harmful to cognition.
“As a linguist, I have to say there is nothing actually about these words that is mentally deleterious at all”
TED Radio Hour: How the creator economy is making you talk like the internet (Aug 21, 2026) · Listen from 21:09
Podcasts
- TED Radio Hour · 1 episode
Episodes
How the creator economy is making you talk like the internetTED Radio Hour · Aug 21, 2026 · 50 min
Manoush Zomorodi talks with linguist and creator Adam Aleksic about how social media algorithms shape slang, influencer speech, identity and politics.