Oxford English Dictionary has chosen 'Brain rot' as the most popular word of 2024. The word chosen by Oxford for 2024 reflects the unnecessary use of social media.

Oxford English Dictionary announced the most popular word of 2024. The word of the year was 'Brain rot', which means 'brain rot'. The word reflects the unnecessary use of social media. The word was chosen by a vote of more than 37 thousand people. The word chosen every year aims to reflect the trends and moods of that year.

Oxford University Press, publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary, defines brain decay as 'the deterioration of a person's mental or intellectual state, especially as a result of excessive consumption of material (especially nowadays online content) that is not considered trivial or challenging'.

The first recorded use of the word, which has recently come to the fore, was in Henry David Thoreau's 1854 book 'Walden'.