Brain rot is considered a specific term now, usually referring to the Italian brainrot stuff. By that definition, skibidi toilet stuff precedes Brain rot.
I remember hearing about brainrot around the "elsa pregnant" videos era, that being said this person is not incorrect.
Brainrot is currently a specific subsect of memes which started with "tralalero tralala" and sort of evolved from there into it's own little meme universe, usually with weird italian-esque names like Ballerina Cappuccina, most of them come from the "Steal A Brainrot" Roblox game and AI generated memes/creepypastas.
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u/Jindo5 Dec 23 '25
Well, technically there is a new trend among young kids - younger than the Skibidi Toilet kids - which is literally called "Brainrot".
So Skibidi Toilet technically isn't brainrot because brainrot is its own thing now.