Italian Brainrot is a messy meme style that took off in the early 2020s on TikTok and reached full-fledged cultural phenomenon by 2025. Marked by ridiculous AI-created characters, enigmatic world ...

But she is an Italian brainrot character. According to content creator Philip Lindsay, who is a middle school teacher and makes videos on Instagram and TikTok about the wild things his students ...

Ballerina Cappuccina, a surreal AI-generated ballerina with a cappuccino cup for a head, has captivated and divided TikTok’s attention. The latest viral meme in the chaotic “Italian brainrot ...

What does Tralalero Tralala mean? Here's the full list of Italian Brainrot characters, and what the trend actually means. If you've been on TikTok recently, or have had a conversation with a young ...

You’ve just been hit with a full-blown case of “Italian Brainrot” — Gen Alpha’s latest hyper-online obsession that makes “Skibidi Toilet” look like Shakespeare. Born on TikTok in ...

Wokeness mic drop* Evelyn Pazan, Associate Opinion Editor: Lucky for me, I am on French, German and Italian brainrot TikTok, so I get the best of all the European Union. If I only have Italy to choose ...

According to research by GWI, 76% of Gen Z uses TikTok to watch funny videos, and Lifewire reports 57% prefer short videos for product research. Italian Brainrot hits the sweet spot: it’s fast ...

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Despite its ominous name, the trend has nothing to do with Italy. Scroll through a tween's TikTok feed these days, and you're likely to stumble across a surreal parade of AI-generated creatures: a ...

The Italian Brainrot takes its cue from the Anglo-Saxon-derived English idiom "brain rot." Literally, it can be translated as "rotting brain" or "brain decay." But in internet parlance, it is used ...