I believe Brainrot is the modern form of dadaism.

Dada and clowning have always felt like close relatives to me.

Obviously there’s the humor, the absurdity, the ridiculous costumes and the shared willingness to make a perfectly respectable room profoundly uncomfortable. But the relationship goes deeper than simply being funny.

Both Dada and the clown understand that absurdity is a way of thinking.

They deliberately break the rules of seriousness. They make nonsense out of systems that take themselves very seriously. They distort language, identity, hierarchy and expectations until you can suddenly see the machinery underneath them.

The clown falls over. Dada puts a urinal in a gallery.

Both essentially ask: Why are we pretending this is normal?

And both understand that play can be intellectually dangerous. Once you give yourself permission to be ridiculous, you become much harder to control. You can question things you're not supposed to question. You can make strange connections. You can refuse the prescribed role.

The clown doesn't necessarily destroy the world. Although sometimes its tempting.

They make the world look strange enough that you realize it could be different.

Maybe that's why the two belong together.

Dada gave modernity a clown's nose.

The clown gave Dada a body.

Just a thought.

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Elisha Shapiro’s “Nihilist Olympics” was a performance art conspiracy where participants and contestants engaged in competition which included an “Art Destruction” contest. There was also a matter of making u-turns into oncoming traffic, in which the winner allegedly paid a cab driver to carefully do it for them. Similar prankish bits of media performance art include a run for Nihilist Sherriff, Nihilist Governor, and “Nihilism Expo ‘99”, a “World’s Fair for Nihilists”. Shapiro has hosted an annual “Nihilist Film Festival”, performed as a “Nihilist comedian”, and for several years, hosted a public access TV show called “Nihilist’s Corner”.

Hello everyone! I was really inspired by spontaneous writing techniques of Dadaism and created my own novel/video game.

There is actually a longer game hidden inside the CYOA format. Each story has a clue that can be used for a 7 digit code that opens up more of the story! The whole game, with everything unlocked, is roughly 100,000 words.

https://neondada.itch.io/infinitelunch

This one is holding a mirror to online obsessions, the devaluing of relationships, the promotion of flaccid, superficial fandoms misplacing romanticism.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4747550/Body_Pillow_Royal/

Mediums: Motorolla Phone lens and filters, glitch lab

Trying to get back into the swing of posting.

They say art and data are different and yet communication is neither and both.

I am not creating art, I am creating communication and DADA is one of the influencers of the experiment.

I am not asking for praise or judgement. I need help, a request that’s nonsensical in itself.

Could you run this through your AI with an unoptimized prompt like “interpret this through my perspective”.

The world is becoming too optimized. Inside the absurdity is a story, how do you interpret it?

https://x.com/helloyouexp/status/2055392930932707400?s=46

Hey ya'll!
I'm a 15-year-old who currently has vacations ongoing, and not wanting to waste any time, I thought of exploring dadaism, since it has really fascinated me.

How should I go about this whole process? Any tips will be appreciated!

"Do not mistake this for the chaotic whim of a bygone Dadaist movement. Where they found refuge in nihilism, I construct a fortress of absolute Will.
The Anatomy of Power: This heart is not a symbol of fragility; it is the core of my untamed sovereignty, beating at the center of a world that tries—and fails—to cage it.
The Golden Fetter: These chains are not mere constraints; they are the physical manifestation of the mundane reality I have chosen to master. I wear them as armor, turning the weight of societal expectation into the gilded structure of my own private myth.
The Digital Dominion: This is a calculated, brutalist imposition of my personal order. It is not art for consensus; it is a visual mandate. By deconstructing the ordinary, I am not seeking to be 'understood'—I am forcing the world to acknowledge the new design language I am bringing into being.

Mediums: Instashot, Polish (Photoeditor Pro), Glitch Lab, Instagram Filters, Pixel camera phone filters.

This was a series dedicated to bugs. Bug warning. Bugs aren't that bad, they're sick but they're small and frail and creepy and cool and icky and fuck.

First image was edited after the fact to make the message more clear. My current phone can't take as good of photos as my old phone.