doomscrolling
English
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[edit]From doom + scrolling, from the practice of scrolling through timelines and news feeds on a computer or mobile device.
Noun
[edit]doomscrolling (uncountable)
- (informal, neologism) The practice of continually reading Internet news about catastrophic events.
- Synonym: doomsurfing
- 2020 July 15, Brian X. Chen, “You’re Doomscrolling Again. Here’s How to Snap Out of It.”, in New York Times[1]:
- Step 1 is to acknowledge the burden that doomscrolling creates for our health, Dr. Gazzaley said. “You have to realize you don’t want to live your life in a hamster wheel of complete news consumption,” he said.
- 2020, Tanya Goodin, My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open: How to Untangle Our Relationship with Tech, page 167:
- I assured them that while doomscrolling was a difficult online pitfall, it wasn't one they needed to fall in to[sic].
- 2021 January 24, Tallie Proud, “Twitter accounts to follow to break up the doomscrolling”, in Tallie Proud[2], archived from the original on 20 May 2021:
- It would be easy enough to say just stop doing it, but with everything happening in the world right now, it’s impossible to completely avoid doomscrolling.
- 2021 July 30, “Editorial: Welcome to the 2021 Pandemic Games: Thrills, spills and COVID”, in Boston Herald[3]:
- But this is 2021 and after a year and a half of COVID-19, of racial and socioeconomic unrest, viewers may be tuning in for a respite from doomscrolling daily news.
- 2022 March 6, James Tapper, “Obsessed? Frightened? Wakeful? War in Ukraine sparks return of doomscrolling”, in The Guardian[4]:
- Now doomscrolling is back in ways not seen since the beginning of the Covid pandemic.
- (by extension) Continuously and aimlessly consuming any content on social media, particularly sites that utilize a scrolling format, such as Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter.
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Verb
[edit]doomscrolling
- present participle and gerund of doomscroll