{"id":533,"date":"2025-01-03T08:49:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T08:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/?p=533"},"modified":"2025-01-03T09:17:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T09:17:36","slug":"brain-rot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/03\/brain-rot\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain Rot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I hope your holidays were great, but mannn, I\u2019m happy to be past em! Bring on the new year. There\u2019s a lot I want to accomplish and I\u2019m certainly over spending money I don\u2019t have! Anyhoo, while I was busy with IRL nonsense, I casually chipped away at comic stuff. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/index.php\/series\/driving-nowhere\/\">I finished a page of Driving Nowhere<\/a>, and I have a fun six-part (!) mini comic I\u2019m excited to throw together.<br><br>While working on that I observed and was reminded of the bizarre (to me..) culture of the current generation. A term I like being labeled for this nonsense, brain rot, made me think initially about how there\u2019s no way my generation would be this stupid\u2026 then I thought more deeply about our cringe and\u2026 yeah we weren\u2019t any better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Brainrotbigah-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"823\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Brainrotbigah-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Brainrotbigah-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Brainrotbigah-300x96.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Brainrotbigah-1024x329.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Brainrotbigah-768x247.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Brainrotbigah-1536x494.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Brainrotbigah-2048x658.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every generation has their own pop culture cringe they try to forget about&#8230; they&#8217;re no worse than us&#8230; <br><br><em>Not any better either.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-K<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope your holidays were great, but mannn, I\u2019m happy to be past em! Bring on the new year. There\u2019s a lot I want to accomplish and I\u2019m certainly over spending money I don\u2019t have! Anyhoo, while I was busy<br \/><a class=\"btn-more btn btn-danger btn-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/03\/brain-rot\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drivingnowhere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}