“Brain rot” has been announced as the Oxford word of the year for 2024, defined as the deterioration of your mental capacity owing to “overconsumption of material considered to be trivial or unchallenging” especially through endless scrolling online. Why not stick on your phone for an extra few moments, and endlessly scroll through our quiz to see whether you too have brain rot from social media …
- 1.What is 'rizz' shorthand for?
Risqué
Charisma
Rizla cigarette papers
- 2.You might use the hashtag #furrypotato if you are going to post a video clip of what?
Cute animals
Bad takeaway food
Kiwi-eating challenge
- 3.Which of these is the 12-year-old American youth football player and social media personality whose dad just happens to be a digital media marketing manager?
Dribby Betz
Boosie Dunne
Baby Gronk
- 4.Which of these stars has the biggest following on TikTok?
Charli XCX
Dua Lipa
Chappell Roan
- 5.If you are over a certain age, all celebrity news famously reads "Curtains for Zoosha? K-smog and Batboy caught flipping a grunt", but which of these is a real headline on Buzzfeed today?
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- 6.Which of these has been a viral YouTube sensation?
Zebedee Bangwall
Skibidi Toilet
Tallahassee Pooper
- 7.Who is generally considered to be the highest-paid "influencer" on Instagram?
Footballer Cristiano Ronaldo
Singer and actor Ariana Grande
Reality TV star Kylie Jenner
- 8.What is TikTok called in China?
TikTok
Douyin
Lachang quan
- 9.Which of these YouTube horror series does LaurenZside habitually make reaction videos of?
Shrouded Hand
Four Nights At Franco's
Life of Luxury
- 10.Can you spot the name of a real TikTok influencer from the Philippines
Bella Stoop
Bella Foyeur
Bella Poarch
- 11.Jiff Pom's Instagram account has over 9m followers. What is he?
A dog
A cat
A hamster
- 12.What is a wasteman?
Someone who has done nothing with their life
Someone who has recently lost a lot of weight
The person who comes to pick up your recycling bin every other Thursday
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