Oxford University Press' 2024 Word of the Year highlights the growing anxiety around the impact of consuming low-quality online content.
Oxford dictionaries' Word of the Year describes endlessly scrolling unchallenging content on social media. Image: Pixabay.” This choice emerged after 37 000 votes, extensive public discussions, and expert analysis.they felt captured the moods and conversations that defined the past year., “brain rot” is the “supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as a result of overconsumption of material considered to be trivial or unchallenging.
Its selection as Word of the Year reflects a broader conversation about humanity’s relationship with technology, and how humans use their free time, noted Casper Grathwohl, president of Oxford Languages. “It’s been insightful and deeply moving to see language lovers all over the world participate and help us select the Oxford Word of the Year 2024,”“Looking back at the Oxford Word of the Year over the past two decades, you can see society’s growing preoccupation with how our virtual lives are evolving, the way internet culture is permeating so much of who we are and what we talk about.” and referred to someone’s skill in attracting or charming others.
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