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soft scrolling

When you are scrolling instagram reels, tiktok or other short term video formats in a relaxed state of mind. You sometimes watch entire videos without knowing why and while being uninterested. You click on profiles and scroll through feeds without any clear reason. The most relaxed type of scrolling, and is the opposite of hard scrolling.
Bro I was in my bed brain rotting all day yesterday, I was soft scrolling reels for like 8 hours. I spent like 3 of those on kazakhstani horse training videos.

Oh I love to aimlessly soft scroll!
by Jor-Al September 8, 2025
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scroll fugue

A disassociated state where someone loses awareness while scrolling social media and unconsciously drifts between apps. Similar to a fugue state, it involves memory gaps, autopilot browsing, and the sudden realization that you’ve ended up deep in another feed without remembering how.
I knew it was time for bed when I got sent into a scroll fugue last night while scrolling on X.
by thenamelessboss September 9, 2025
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Bloom scrolling

When you are reading stories or looking at memes that are genuinely positive. The opposite of doom scrolling.
I spend 30 minutes a day bloom scrolling to remember there's still good in the world.
by Anonymous Sunflower September 12, 2025
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A theory about what happens after death. According to this theory, when a person dies, they are not judged by a god or higher power, but by an ancient scroll that falls from the darkness. The scroll contains every action they’ve ever taken good and bad and the soul is forced to relive all their mistakes and moments of cruelty. If they lived with kindness, they fade away peacefully. But if they lived selfishly or hurt others, they are trapped forever, endlessly reliving their wrongdoings in a cycle of regret.
After hearing about The Scroll of Judgment Theory, I’m starting to think that all the bad stuff I’ve done might come back to haunt me when I die
by pseudonymXYX February 9, 2025
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Phantom Scrolling

When you doom scroll for so long on YouTube shorts or TikTok that you randomly break out in scrolling motions throughout the day, though you may not even be on your phone.
Friend 1: Bro snap out of it. You are phantom scrolling the air.

Friend 2: Huh…oh dang whoops.

Friend 1: That’s gotta be more addictive than cigarettes. You need help.
by Jitskin March 4, 2025
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Phantom Scrolling

When you doom scroll so much, you no longer watch YouTube shorts for entertainment, you just do it because you are addicted to the scrolling motion. Excessive exposure may result in endless scrolling through any app that has shorts, including but not limited to LinkedIn.
Please help me. Seriously, this is a cry for help. I’ve been doom scrolling so much that now I am now phantom scrolling.
by Jitskin March 9, 2025
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Phantom Scrolling

When you scroll too much on YouTube shorts or TikTok, that you no longer scroll for the point of entertainment, but rather because you are addicted to the scrolling motion.
Guys I just caught myself phantom scrolling on LinkedIn shorts. This is a cry for help, someone help me.
by Jitskin March 22, 2025
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