I have to admit that when my 10-year-old daughter first told me that the kids in her class have gotten into Italian brainrot, I showed no curiosity whatsoever. I knew from the name that it was likely ...

In a Japanese shop selling pocket-money trinkets, there is a rack of toys, stickers and keyrings based on a global crew of AI-generated characters that almost every child knows about — and very few ...

“Brainrot” used to be just an insult online. Then it became a label, and now it’s all over TikTok in many different forms. One of the weirdest branches of it is called Italian brainrot, and it has ...

Scroll through a tween's TikTok feed these days, and you're likely to stumble across a surreal parade of AI-generated creatures: a ballerina with a cappuccino for a head, a crocodile fused with a ...

Soft toys of Brainrot characters – inspired by AI-generated characters that have been going viral – displayed at a shop in central Tokyo. (AFP pic) In a Japanese shop selling cheap trinkets, there is ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Brainrot: Animal Quizzes Brainrot: Animal Quiz is an exciting puzzle game in which you and your friends will have to guess the popular animals from the ...

A walking shark in oversized sneakers, an orange with muscular arms and a twirling "Ballerina Cappuccina" with a mug for a head are among the strange stars of the online phenomenon called Italian ...