The observable trajectory someone takes as they move deeper into a particular ideological rabbit hole or fixation — documented publicly (usually on social media) as followers watch the transformation happen in real time. A person's brainworm arc might start with one edgy take, escalate through increasingly extreme content consumption, and culminate in a fully altered worldview that their old followers barely recognize. The term is used both analytically (by commentators studying radicalization) and mockingly (by people watching someone slide into a rabbit hole in slow motion).
The replies are documenting his entire brainworm arc — there's a thread going back eighteen months showing exactly when the podcast changed him.
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Viral internet speak — memes, ratios, main-character moments, and the algospeak of every platform from Twitter to Reddit to TikTok comment sections.
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