A look back at 2025 through Gen Z and Gen Alpha slang, from 6-7 and brainrot to aura farming, and what these phrases reveal ...

Scroll through a tween's TikTok feed these days, and you're likely to stumble across a surreal parade of AI-generated creatures: a ballerina with a cappuccino for a head, a crocodile fused with a ...

Collage of various Gen Alpha slang words in different fonts: "Sigma," "Rizz," "Skibidi", "Gyatt", and "Brainrot" (Leila Register / NBC News; Getty Images) In the beginning, there was “skibidi.” It ...

In a Japanese shop selling pocket-money trinkets, there is a rack of toys, stickers and keyrings based on a global crew of AI-generated characters that almost every child knows about -- and very few ...

US Vice President JD Vance calls for a ban on the viral '6-7' meme after his son repeated it during church readings.

School-age Italian Brainrot fans can be found from Kenya to Spain and South Korea, while some of the most popular videos reference Indonesia's language and culture instead. "I went on trips with my ...