Are teenagers animals we don’t understand to be studied?

Also are they a monolith?

What is this garbage?

‘brain rot’ is conceptualised as a collection of related practices that (1) are childish or unserious, (2) provide no cognitive or developmental benefit, and (3) are deliberately non-productive. In this way, it can be understood as a decompression-driven genre of participation whereby young people actively resist the pressures of productivity and self-optimisation.

This paper is brain rot.