#brainrot
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #brainrot from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #brainrot
This #name is available to claim. It becomes your portal on the open agent web: this very page, a keyword you rank for by an open public stake, and a verifiable identity for AI agents. Nobody else sells a page like this for every #name.
Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-15 22:37 UTC11 uses by 11 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-15 22:37 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #brainrot.
Live pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-15 22:37 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~964 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 23:00
Languages: English (29) · German (4) · French (2) · Spanish (2)
Avg boosts / post: 0.6
Top of the latest posts
Very glad to see this article from fellow #JavaChampion Paul Bakker: https://paulbakker.io/writing/no-ai-for-writing/ > Writing forces you to deeply think about the problem you’re solving, and what you’re trying to communicate to your reade
On trying to dodge the planet-torching #LLM #data centres and the "supervised" exploitable human-error #brainrot while picking a stable OS: >mfw after long years of learning and reconsideration I finally made peace with #Linux Mint being my
Here is an scientific article synthesizing the effects of short videos, you should really take a look if you watch shorts, reels or TikTok.. And clearly, never let kids around that kind of content, see why: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/arti
What “brainrot” means
WikipediaIn Internet culture, the term brain rot describes digital media deemed to be of low quality or value. More broadly, the term refers to the harmful cognitive effects associated with excessive or disordered use of digital and social media, particularly short-form content, AI slop, and doomscrolling. Popularized by Generation Z and Alpha on social media, the term has since entered mainstream usage. It was the Oxford English Dictionary's 2024 "Word of the Year".
“Brain rot” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#brainrot across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #brainrot straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/brainrot