Once Upon a Midnight Scroll: Poems for the Overstimulated & Disillusioned

Heidi Becker’s debut poetry collection follows one chronically online twentysomething's journey from filming “brain rot” skits in her parents’ living room to sparking an anti-capitalist awakening across social media.

Using brain rot language and social media speak against itself to reveal the problematic impacts of a generation that is chronically online, Once Upon a Midnight Scroll memorializes the viral words of writer and creator Heidi Becker. From the intangible internet to the physical ...