{"id":16967,"date":"2024-12-22T14:38:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T13:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/22\/brain-rot-2024-the-best-and-funniest-viral-moments-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2024-12-22T14:38:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T13:38:16","slug":"brain-rot-2024-the-best-and-funniest-viral-moments-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/22\/brain-rot-2024-the-best-and-funniest-viral-moments-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain rot 2024: the best and funniest viral moments of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From holding space to a baby pygmy hippo, there\u2019s much to be learned about the world through the memes and trends that dominated our social media feeds this year<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrain rot\u201d has been named Oxford\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/corp.oup.com\/news\/brain-rot-named-oxford-word-of-the-year-2024\/\">word of the year<\/a>, meaning \u201cthe supposed deterioration of a person\u2019s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But no matter how \u201ctrivial\u201d or \u201cunchallenging\u201d the content may be, there\u2019s still a lot to be learned about our culture through the trends, memes and storylines that dominated our social media feeds this year. So let\u2019s embrace the brain rot and take a journey back through the 10 best and funniest viral trends that the internet had to offer in 2024.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2024\/dec\/23\/brain-rot-2024-the-best-and-funniest-viral-moments-of-the-year\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/af9e42c1141c419203832d04706a69a059deb791\/0_0_2500_1500\/master\/2500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ea4353e8296e064b21873b4eab6932ec\" title=\"Brain rot 2024: the best and funniest viral moments of the year\" \/>From holding space to a baby pygmy hippo, there\u2019s much to be learned about the world through the memes and trends that dominated our social media feeds this year<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrain rot\u201d has been named Oxford\u2019s word of the year, meaning \u201cthe supposed deterioration of a person\u2019s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging\u201d.<br \/>\nBut no matter how \u201ctrivial\u201d or \u201cunchallenging\u201d the content may be, there\u2019s still a lot to be learned about our culture through the trends, memes and storylines that dominated our social media feeds this year. So let\u2019s embrace the brain rot and take a journey back through the 10 best and funniest viral trends that the internet had to offer in 2024. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From holding space to a baby pygmy hippo, there\u2019s much to be learned about the world through the memes and trends that dominated our social media feeds this year \u201cBrain rot\u201d has been named Oxford\u2019s word of the year, meaning \u201cthe supposed deterioration of a person\u2019s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/22\/brain-rot-2024-the-best-and-funniest-viral-moments-of-the-year\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brain rot 2024: the best and funniest viral moments of the year<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16967"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}