Italian Brain Rot exploded in 2025 as a surreal, AI-fueled meme genre featuring over-the-top Italian stereotypes, exaggerated accents, operatic music, and nonsense visuals that felt intentionally ...

Largo is a surprise addition in Dota 2’s latest patch. After the Monster Hunter collab that breathed new life with the game’s highest concurrent players in recent history, Valve wants to keep the ...

Why has Jon Hamm been dancing in ecstasy all over your Instagram and TikTok feeds lately? Well, it's a story that starts with an Apple TV show from earlier this year and ends with Millennial nostalgia ...

2025 gave us the hero with a hero, bloated Vance, and who could forget the Coldplay couple? (edit Valentina Di Liscia/Hyperallergic) As the year comes to an end, I’m really at a loss for where to ...

As we say our goodbyes to 2025, we must bid adieu to the memes that came with it. It was a surreal year on the internet — many of this year’s memes leaned heavily into the brain rot that’s come with ...

From Jack Dorsey to Gen Alpha, everyone seemingly wants to go back to the internet of a decade ago. But is it possible to reverse AI slop and brain rot? Which implies, of course, that memes lack ...

In response, TikTokers proposed an idea that started as satire but quickly became a rallying cry for users who felt overwhelmed by chaotic, hyper-ironic formats. Although the proposal began ...

Predator Gaming gathered the best Dota 2, League of Legends, and VALORANT teams at the Philippine Final. Day 1 featured Team Nemesis, Execration, InteractivePhilippines, and Kukuys that earned their ...

BERKELEY – Just two miles or so from Pixar’s 20-acre Wonderland-like campus in Emeryville, a smaller but still-impressive animation studio has sprouted up and is starting to flower even more. Launched ...

Dota 2 used to be an absolute fiend for a good crossover. From Final Fantasy to Fallout, Deus Ex to Darkest Dungeon, Valve's hit MOBA has been inundated with cosmetic goods and iconic announcer packs ...

On TikTok, some reckon that memes are less funny than they used to be, and have proposed drastic action. Hence, in 2026, TikTok memes are scheduled to change, wiping away the current slate of trends, ...