We don't see our brainrot as brainrot because it wasn't short form but short form is not what makes something brainrot

YTMND was pure brain rot lol

Tiktok ignores old videos in algoritme
and it destroys video quality
its search is 1980

I think youtube shorts are 666%better

Oh? I remember flash games.
Two that come to mind is the one with the polar bear swinging a bat to hit a penguin as far as it can. And, the other was an incredible Flash game where you are on the surface of a very strange world. A strange world where you need to solve strange puzzles to keep moving 'til the end. The Flash artwork appeared to have been influenced by the use of 🍄

Millennial brainrot was more like reality shows and stuff like that

Robot chicken
But no, not even close to the youth today.
We are literally the last of a dying breed, and that’s okay.
Makes way technological evolution I guess.
It is what it is. Everything gets better and worse at the same time.
Just the way it has to go.

This post was edited by Abyzma on Apr 1 2026 03:27am

Depends on how far down the internet drain you were in your younger years.
Nonesense brain rot though, nothing compared to today, where loud is funny.

We had Ren and stimpy and shows like Beavis and Butthead and you're going to sit here and tell me that we didn't have brain rot?

Mega babies.

I’d probably lump iFunny into that category, but also Saturday morning cartoons probably fits, to an extent.

we had the same brain rot, we just didnt have the access to it these new kids do.