From The Atlantic.

Strange online turns of phrase—“He’s so me for this,” “No because what do you mean,” “If you even care”—have seeped into daily life.

One theory about the cause of brain-rot language is that people have gotten stupider. But the people Kaitlyn Tiffany knows who speak this way “are not dumb,” she writes. “They’re amusing, perceptive, have a broad range of reference, and think critically about the things they’re talking about in such a doofy way. They are also, like me, being a bit lazy and noncommittal when speaking casually. There are worse things to be.”

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