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Fonte: CURTIS, L. 12 Habits to Prevent “Brain Rot”. Health.com, 6 jan. 2025. Revisado por GERALYN DEXTER, PhD, LMHC. Disponível em: https://www.health.com/habits-to-prevent-brain-rot8766150. Acesso em 8 abr. 2025.

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Fonte: CURTIS, L. 12 Habits to Prevent “Brain Rot”. Health.com, 6 jan. 2025. Revisado por GERALYN DEXTER, PhD, LMHC. Disponível em: https://www.health.com/habits-to-prevent-brain-rot8766150. Acesso em 8 abr. 2025.

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If you know What Brainrot1 means, you might already have it

1 A popular term captures the condition of
being terminally online, with humor and
pathos.
The term refers primarily to low-value
5 internet content and the effects caused by
spending too much time consuming it.
Example: “I’ve been watching so many
TikToks, I have brainrot.”
Online discussion of brainrot has recently
10 grown so widespread that some social media
users have begun creating parodies of people
who seem to embody the condition.
Several videos by the TikTok user Heidi
Becker show her facing the camera as she
15 strings together one internet reference after
another in rapid-fire fashion.
“Hiii, oh my god, the fit is fitting, pop off
king!” she says at the start of a recent video
that has over 200,000 likes.
20 Other lines in her soliloquy include: “It’s
giving golden retriever energy,” a piece of
slang describing someone who gives the
impression of being friendly, goofy or
harmless; and “I really like hot girl walking
25 and I really like girl dinner,” references to
daily activities that TikTok has gendered and
renamed.
Accusing someone of having brainrot is not a
compliment. But some people evince a hint of 

30 pride in admitting to the condition. A recent
BuzzFeed quiz challenging readers on
obscure internet trivia was headlined: “If
you pass this brainrot quiz, your brain is
1000% cooked.”
35 “One of the easiest ways to tell if someone’s
brain has been destroyed by social media is to
notice how often they reference internet
jargon,” the influencer Joel Cave recently
posted in a TikTok. “The fact that the internet
40 can infiltrate our brain so much that people
don’t even have control over what they’re
saying — they just have to spout out whatever
meme they’ve been seeing a lot — is crazy to
me.”
45 Some social media accounts are dedicated to
creating “brainrot content,” which has
become its own entertainment subgenre. The
TikTok user “Fort History” takes clips of
movies and TV shows and dubs them with the
50 latest internet lingo.
“Hey, Rizzler, it’s just you and me today,”
Phil from the sitcom “Modern Family”
appears to say to his son, Luke, in one clip.
“All right I’ll edge right down,” Luke
55 responds.
Taylor Lorenz, the author of “Extremely
Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence,
and Power on the Internet,” said she sees
“brainrot” as synonymous with the phrase
60 “broken brain.” Both online terms apply to
those who have become so warped by what
they see on the internet “that they have lost
the ability to function in the physical world,”
said Ms. Lorenz, a Washington Post
65 columnist who was previously a reporter for
The New York Times.

Fonte: ROY, J. If you know what ‘brainrot’ means, you might already have it. The New York Times, 13 jun. 2024. Atualizado em 17 jun. 2024. Disponível em: https://www.nytimes.com.

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If you know What Brainrot1 means, you might already have it

1 A popular term captures the condition of
being terminally online, with humor and
pathos.
The term refers primarily to low-value
5 internet content and the effects caused by
spending too much time consuming it.
Example: “I’ve been watching so many
TikToks, I have brainrot.”
Online discussion of brainrot has recently
10 grown so widespread that some social media
users have begun creating parodies of people
who seem to embody the condition.
Several videos by the TikTok user Heidi
Becker show her facing the camera as she
15 strings together one internet reference after
another in rapid-fire fashion.
“Hiii, oh my god, the fit is fitting, pop off
king!” she says at the start of a recent video
that has over 200,000 likes.
20 Other lines in her soliloquy include: “It’s
giving golden retriever energy,” a piece of
slang describing someone who gives the
impression of being friendly, goofy or
harmless; and “I really like hot girl walking
25 and I really like girl dinner,” references to
daily activities that TikTok has gendered and
renamed.
Accusing someone of having brainrot is not a
compliment. But some people evince a hint of 

30 pride in admitting to the condition. A recent
BuzzFeed quiz challenging readers on
obscure internet trivia was headlined: “If
you pass this brainrot quiz, your brain is
1000% cooked.”
35 “One of the easiest ways to tell if someone’s
brain has been destroyed by social media is to
notice how often they reference internet
jargon,” the influencer Joel Cave recently
posted in a TikTok. “The fact that the internet
40 can infiltrate our brain so much that people
don’t even have control over what they’re
saying — they just have to spout out whatever
meme they’ve been seeing a lot — is crazy to
me.”
45 Some social media accounts are dedicated to
creating “brainrot content,” which has
become its own entertainment subgenre. The
TikTok user “Fort History” takes clips of
movies and TV shows and dubs them with the
50 latest internet lingo.
“Hey, Rizzler, it’s just you and me today,”
Phil from the sitcom “Modern Family”
appears to say to his son, Luke, in one clip.
“All right I’ll edge right down,” Luke
55 responds.
Taylor Lorenz, the author of “Extremely
Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence,
and Power on the Internet,” said she sees
“brainrot” as synonymous with the phrase
60 “broken brain.” Both online terms apply to
those who have become so warped by what
they see on the internet “that they have lost
the ability to function in the physical world,”
said Ms. Lorenz, a Washington Post
65 columnist who was previously a reporter for
The New York Times.

Fonte: ROY, J. If you know what ‘brainrot’ means, you might already have it. The New York Times, 13 jun. 2024. Atualizado em 17 jun. 2024. Disponível em: https://www.nytimes.com.

Gentrification

Gentrification is a process of change currently underway in many American cities. Gentrification brings conflict between longtime residents of old neighborhoods and new arrivals.

Gentrification in Bushwick

Gentrification is underway in many U.S. neighborhoods like Bushwick in Brooklyn, New York. This process can disrupt the traditional makeup of a neighborhood with the influx of wealthier people moving into downtrodden, largely minority, urban neighborhoods

PHOTOGRAPH BY ANDREW LICHTENSTEIN /CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGES.

Gentrification describes a process where wealthy, college-educated individuals begin to move into poor or working-class communities, often originally occupied by communities of color. The people and businesses that move into gentrifying neighborhoods may have goals for their new homes that are at odds with the goals of people who have lived there for a long time. Rising costs of living and a changing community culture can make for a difficult adjustment for longtime residents. These changes may drive out people of color and minority-owned businesses. At the same time, gentrification brings much needed investment into long-neglected areas. Gentrification is thus a complicated issue that involves many different stakeholders and perspectives.

The poor communities of color who tend to inhabit neighborhoods targeted for gentrification were often the victims of unfair housing policies from the end of World War II. During the postwar economic boom, many suburbs appeared, located on the outskirts of cities. They provided the advantages of urban environments without the disadvantages of living in close proximity to others. In order to encourage people to move into suburbs, real estate brokers practiced something called blockbusting. They encouraged black families to pay a premium to move into particular urban neighborhoods so that white families would sell their houses at a low price to move out to the suburbs. After this process was complete, the new majority-African American communities were denied the money they needed to invest in improvements to their neighborhoods through a practice called redlining. These factors combined to reduce opportunities in many urban areas. As a result, the low cost of moving into those neighborhoods opened them up to gentrification.

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/gentrification/

Gentrification

Gentrification is a process of change currently underway in many American cities. Gentrification brings conflict between longtime residents of old neighborhoods and new arrivals.

Gentrification in Bushwick

Gentrification is underway in many U.S. neighborhoods like Bushwick in Brooklyn, New York. This process can disrupt the traditional makeup of a neighborhood with the influx of wealthier people moving into downtrodden, largely minority, urban neighborhoods

PHOTOGRAPH BY ANDREW LICHTENSTEIN /CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGES.

Gentrification describes a process where wealthy, college-educated individuals begin to move into poor or working-class communities, often originally occupied by communities of color. The people and businesses that move into gentrifying neighborhoods may have goals for their new homes that are at odds with the goals of people who have lived there for a long time. Rising costs of living and a changing community culture can make for a difficult adjustment for longtime residents. These changes may drive out people of color and minority-owned businesses. At the same time, gentrification brings much needed investment into long-neglected areas. Gentrification is thus a complicated issue that involves many different stakeholders and perspectives.

The poor communities of color who tend to inhabit neighborhoods targeted for gentrification were often the victims of unfair housing policies from the end of World War II. During the postwar economic boom, many suburbs appeared, located on the outskirts of cities. They provided the advantages of urban environments without the disadvantages of living in close proximity to others. In order to encourage people to move into suburbs, real estate brokers practiced something called blockbusting. They encouraged black families to pay a premium to move into particular urban neighborhoods so that white families would sell their houses at a low price to move out to the suburbs. After this process was complete, the new majority-African American communities were denied the money they needed to invest in improvements to their neighborhoods through a practice called redlining. These factors combined to reduce opportunities in many urban areas. As a result, the low cost of moving into those neighborhoods opened them up to gentrification.

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/gentrification/