This unique meme aesthetic combines artificial intelligence, absurdist fiction, noisy sound design, and a healthy serving of cultural remixing. It has given rise to viral characters such as Tung Tung ...

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 ...

John Mayer just introduced Conan O’Brien to the chaotic world of Italian brainrot memes, and the internet can’t get enough. It started with a simple question from Mayer: “Are you familiar with the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Leslie Katz covers the intersection of culture, science and tech. Lirili Larila, an elephant-cactus hybrid, is one of the breakout ...

Cartoonish AI creatures have fast become memes, inspiring a stream of new content such as “Brainrot Rap,” viewed 116 million times on YouTube. School-age Italian ...

While grilling Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Ocasio-Cortez forged Twitter’s newest meme, and it’s very Italian. Ocasio-Cortez questioned Zuckerberg about political ads on Oct. 23 during a hearing ...

The intense exchange last week between Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Mark Zuckerberg has yielded not only a video of the Facebook CEO struggling to answer questions, but also a series of memes invoking ...

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 ...