doomscrolling
noun/ˈdumˌskɹoʊlɪŋ/US
Etymology
From doom + scrolling, from the practice of scrolling through timelines and news feeds on a computer or mobile device; originally in a context of being dissatisfied with current socio-political conditions and headlines. Popularized and surged during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Definitions
The practice of continually reading Internet news about catastrophic events.
- 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.
- I assured them that while doomscrolling was a difficult online pitfall, it wasn't one they needed to fall in to^([sic]).
- 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.
present participle and gerund of doomscroll
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for doomscrolling. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA