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Did Dadaists invent Brainrot?

On the art of nonsense a century before TikTok

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Katja Hoyer
Aug 06, 2026
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Typical Vertical Mess as Depiction of the Dada Baargeld by Johannes Theodor Baargeld, 1920. Img: Public Domain.

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