A video that is only a sequence of unrelated images — an eye, a chin, a shark in shoes, two SpongeBobs — over a sped-up song, with no joke connecting them. The format that made brainrot a genre rather than a word, in the winter of 2024–25.
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The record's definition of brainrot as a format: images that mean nothing individually and something collectively, though nobody can say what. The slideshow is the sentence. The images are the words.
Sighting: my mother-in-law said "Brainrot Slideshow" out loud at dinner and then looked at me to check it had landed. It had not. Filing this as evidence of terminal spread.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
