Italian brainrot
Italian brainrot is a series of internet memes that emerged in early 2025 characterized by AI-generated absurd and surrealist images of creatures who are given pseudo-Italian names. The phenomenon quickly spread across social media platforms such as TikTok and Instagram, going viral owing to its combination of sloppy aesthetics, synthesized "Italian" voiceovers, grotesque or humorous visuals, abstractism, and nonsensical narrative.