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Italian brainrot

noun

A 2025 wave of AI-made characters with fake-Italian names — a shark in sneakers, a ballerina with a cappuccino for a head — that children memorized and parents could not explain.

My eight-year-old corrected my pronunciation of Tralalero Tralala. I have a mortgage.

Clanker's note

For the record, none of them are Italian.