doomscrolling

alternative doom-scrolling · alternative doom scrolling

1. informalneologismuncountableThe practice of continually reading Internet news about catastrophic events.

   Now doomscrolling is back in ways not seen since the beginning of the Covid pandemic.

   2022 March 6, James Tapper, “Obsessed? Frightened? Wakeful? War in Ukraine sparks return of doomscrolling”, in The Guardian

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   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 July 15, Brian X. Chen, “You’re Doomscrolling Again. Here’s How to Snap Out of It.”, in New York Times

   I assured them that while doomscrolling was a difficult online pitfall, it wasn't one they needed to fall in to^([sic]).

   2020, Tanya Goodin, My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open: How to Untangle Our Relationship with Tech, page 167

   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 January 24, Tallie Proud, “Twitter accounts to follow to break up the doomscrolling”, in Tallie Proud, archived from the original on 20 May 2021

   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.

   2021 July 30, “Editorial: Welcome to the 2021 Pandemic Games: Thrills, spills and COVID”, in Boston Herald

   There is only so much negativity you can absorb before you have to take a deep breath and ask yourself, Do I really need to spend all day doomscrolling? Where is my joy?

   2025 November 4, Alexandra Petri, “Mike Johnson: I Am Tuning Out the News Cycle to Focus on Self-Care”, in The Atlantic

   Synonyms: doomsurfing · Antonyms: bloomscrolling

alternative doom-scrolling · alternative doom scrolling

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of doomscroll