doomscrolling

Doomscrolling is that thing where you keep flicking your phone, reading scary news, and you can’t seem to stop, even if you’re already in bed and tired and you know you’d be better off sleeping.

The Opposite of Doomscrolling Author 2023

“Things I’m Doing a Lot More of Under Isolation: Cooking, Cleaning, Taking deep breaths while walking dogs, Doomscrolling, Sleep Meditations, Facetiming, Existential Crisising,” tweeted Anne Helen Petersen, a senior culture writer at BuzzFeedNews, on March 22.

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The phenomenon known as doomscrolling, popularized on Twitter by writer Karen K. Ho, entered the cultural lexicon earlier this year.

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To those who have become purveyors of the perverse exercise, like The New York Times’ Kevin Roose, this habit has become known as doomsurfing, or “falling into deep, morbid rabbit holes filled with coronavirus content, agitating myself to the point of physical discomfort, erasing any hope of a good night’s sleep.” For those who prefer their despair be portable, the term is doomscrolling, and as protests over racial injustice and police brutality following the death of George Floyd have joined the Covid-19 crisis in the news cycle, it’s only gotten more intense. The constant stream of news and social media never ends.

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