Doomscrolling

 

#𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣𝘼𝙣𝙚𝙬𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙒𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙐𝘾

ᴬᵖʳⁱˡ ᵉᵈⁱᵗⁱᵒⁿ

📌 Word: Dᴏᴏᴍsᴄʀᴏʟʟɪɴɢ

📌 Transcription: /duːmˌskrəʊlɪŋ/ as in dum-skroh-ling

📌 Meaning: Reading the news on social media and expecting it to be bad – so much so that you become obsessed with looking at updates 

Doomscrolling is when you become obsessed with staying up to date with bad news.

 It’s a combination of the noun “doom” and verb “scroll”.

📌 Example: I was _doomscrolling_ on Twitter today while reading about Covid-19 cases. I think it’s why I feel so anxious now.

💨 It’s easy to get caught up in a doomscrolling cycle of despair, even as we feel that we should do something.

📌 Origin: Doomscrolling can be defined as "an excessive amount of screen time devoted to the absorption of dystopian news."

 According to finance reporter Karen Ho, the term is thought to have originated in October 2018 on the social media site Twitter.

 However, the word may have earlier origins, and the phenomenon itself predates the coining of the term.

The practice of doomscrolling can be compared to an older phenomenon from the 1970s called the mean world syndrome: "the belief that the world is a more dangerous place to live in than it actually is—as a result of long-term exposure to violence-related content on television.”

📌 Word Class: Noun/Verb

📌 Synonyms: Doomsurfing, doom-laden, doom palm, dooms, doomsayer, doomscroll.

📌Antonym: Gleefreshing

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