Brain rot” is the 2024 Oxford Word of the Year, adding to a growing list of Internet-specific words that are chosen by dictionaries as words of the year.

“Brain rot” is a popular term within internet culture, associated with being chronically online. Doomscrolling is so 2020 — we’re now in the year of “brain rot” instead. That’s the 2024 word of the year according to Oxford University Press, the Oxford English Dictionary’s publisher.

Internet slang “brain rot” has been named Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the Year for 2024, but did you know it’s not the first internet-inspired word to get the title?