Meaning of doomscrolling | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The practice of continually reading Internet news about catastrophic events.
   informal, neologism, uncountable
2. Continuously and aimlessly consuming any content on social media, particularly sites that utilize a scrolling format, such as Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter.
   broadly, uncountable

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Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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?”

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