Words change their meaning over time, and in the year that's passed since Oxford's honor, the internet has shifted more ...

If you felt like 2025 unfolded one meme at a time, you’re not wrong. This was the year internet jokes stopped being quick punchlines and started becoming full-blown cultural moments—shaped by pop ...

In the first half of 2025, she racked up over 55 million views on TikTok and four million likes, mostly from tweens glued to their cellphones. Not bad for an artificial intelligence-generated cartoon ...

Have you heard the '6 7' phrase and wondering what it means? Here's what to know about the six-seven expression, how it originated and the meaning of brain rot. A new slang expression is trending in ...

I’d stumbled across the Pine Wizard Frog—a recurring character on the official TikTok account of household cleaning fluid ...

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 ...

This is the seventh installment in a series of articles about the science of various aspects of college life. In a matter of weeks, “6 7” has transformed from two sequential numbers to a phrase so ...

An assortment of absurd, useful and funny words and phrases entered the vernacular this year. How well do you know them?