Bingeskimming

The act of opening a streaming app with snacks, blankets, and optimism, then spending 30–90 minutes aggressively skimming trailers, descriptions, and Rotten Tomatoes scores only to watch nothing, question your life choices, and close the app in silence.

I wasn’t watching anything I was bingeskimming until Netflix personally offended me.

Symptoms include:
• Saying “ehhh” repeatedly
• Watching the first 45 seconds of 12 different trailers
• Declaring “there’s nothing to watch” on a platform with 40,000 titles

by Mouth of the Mountain January 11, 2026