What is code rot? How a software term became TikTok slang.

An old video game can look just the way it did years ago, right up until a door that used to open won't budge, a character stops responding when you try to talk to them, or the game freezes every time you load a saved level. That's one way to run into what programmers call "code rot." The game itself may have stayed the same while the platform it runs on keeps getting updates. Over time, parts of the game stop working altogether.On Gen Z TikTok, anything can be "code rotted," from a report card