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EPISODE · May 25, 2026 · 16 MIN

The Agenda: Why are we spending hours watching brain rot videos?

from Money Matters with Hongbin Jeong and Chua Tian Tian · host MONEY FM 89.3

The content we ultimately consume when we "doom-scroll" is called brain rot, and it is often used to describe low-effort, hyper-addictive videos that flood our feeds and eat up hours of our attention spans.  While Gen Z and Alphas are usually called out for consuming this content, it seems like the older generation may have also fallen victim to this phenomenon. On The Agenda, Hongbin Jeong speaks to Dr David Teo, Senior Consultant Psychiatrist and Deputy Medical Director at Connections MindHealth to find out whether ‘brain rot’ is genuinely damaging our ability to focus, and the extent of the impact beyond just the youths.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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