Ten Signs You’ve Got Brain Rot This Summer, and One Sign You Should Just Lie Down in the Grass and Let the Ants Take You
You’ve started narrating your own life in the cadence of a TikTok slideshow.
Chafic LaRochelle is a writer and SAR Tech based in Québec City. His work has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Best Canadian Essays 2023, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and elsewhere. He writes about the strange ways we try to understand ourselves, usually by inventing speculative disasters, rewriting historical footnotes, or peering too long into the void. He’s currently at work on a children’s book, because that seemed like the logical next step.
You’ve started narrating your own life in the cadence of a TikTok slideshow.
“pizzalover99” is a drooling stoner. “PizzaLover99” is a mensch who commands respect in the boardroom, even with his fly down.