brain.rot

BBC Article on Glastonbury before translation
BBC Article on Glastonbury after translation
BBC Article on Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul before translation
BBC Article on Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul after translation

Inspiration

brain.rot is a tool that translates text into 'brainrot' - Gen Z/Gen Alpha internet slang. With internet and social media culture becoming ever more pervasive, this culture has filtered through into every day lexicon, and successive generations have tended to adopt the social media slang of their time into their speech and conversations. We wanted our solution to serve as a case study of how exposure to the internet has affected the way we communicate through the past few decades to today.

What it does

Our tool takes input text of any form, and translates it into the 'brainrot' or slang of the selected decade (1990-1999, 2000-2009, 2010-2019, 2020-2029). It then takes the output and visualises the most frequently used 'brainrot' words in a histogram. Optionally, users can check a box to generate images of the text before the translation and after the translation, offering a fascinating insight into the way AI perceives 'brainrot' and perhaps a look into the overall understandability of 'brainrot' text.

How we built it

We built brain.rot using a python script along with MongoDB, OpenAI, Gemini, Streamlit, and a few other libraries.

Challenges we ran into

Random bugs and openai being annoying.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

It works, we hit the deadline and we managed to deploy all the features from our initial vision. The brain rot is real!!

What we learned

Don't trust ChatGPT lol.

What's next for brain.rot

brain.rot could perhaps be used as a research tool for social scientists or linguists to understand how slang affects every day language and understandability.