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boomscrolling 

Doomscrolling for Boomers: Instead of scrolling their cell phones being overwhelmed by the global news, the Boomer flips through all the local evening news channels every night to learn about the ridiculous Florida Man antics of people in their area.
Dad's been Boomscrolling too much recently, and is convinced everyone in his tiny town is going to be carjacked by people in clown suits within the week.

Boonscrolling 

The opposite of doomscrolling, where one refreshes or advances through social media feeds looking for relatable, positive, and uplifting content, often with the effect of forging connections where they didn't previously exist.
User1: "I was doomscrolling Facebook last night and founds someone else who genuinely loves 'Plan 9 From Outer Space'. We ended up going back and forth about it for an hour."
User2: "Sounds like you were boonscrolling."
Boonscrolling by Bryianzum October 21, 2023
Word of the Day on April 19, 2024

Boomscrolling 

Democrats scrolling on Twitter the day Joe Biden was declared President Elect of The United States.
Today I'm not Doomscrolling, I'm Boomscrolling.
Boomscrolling by RealmsRider November 6, 2020

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.

gloomscrolling 

Where doomscrolling is the endless scrolling in despair and anxiety about the future getting bad, gloomscrolling is the endless scrolling that comes with the sadness and realization of living in the future that got bad.
I was gloomscrolling until 4am last night, I miss the ice caps so much.
gloomscrolling by 3ndTimes January 20, 2025
It is said of the situation where a person has the bad luck to make contact with his testicles against an undefined surface or object, intentioned or not.
Given the nature of the word, it is more appropriate to design cases where the interaction is made with a moving object, for example, a ball.
Although it is extremely painful for the victim, it tends to be considerably funny to people who witness it.
Today in the baseball game the pitcher took a nutshot; the baseball hit him in the nuts.

Man, I just watched the funniest nutshot video ever.
Nutshot by Uberflaven March 1, 2009
Word of the Day on June 26, 2026