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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.
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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

doomscrolling 

When you keep scrolling through all of your social media feeds, looking for the most recent upsetting news about the latest catastrophe. The amount of time spent doing this is directly proportional to how much worse you're going to feel after you're done.
Dude! Stop doomscrolling, It's only going to make you feel worse!

I can't! The dopamine loop is too strong!

doomscrolling 

Obsessively reading social media posts about how utterly fucked we are.
I've got to stop doomscrolling about covid-19, it's making me depressed.

Doomscrolling 

The act of consuming an endless procession of negative online news.
"Are they changing the name of Twitter to doomscrolling"
Doomscrolling by itsKP November 3, 2020

doomscrolling 

Doomscrolling is scrolling through Twitter in 2020 becoming sadder the further through you scroll. There is no end.
Person 1: Whatchya doin
Person 2: doomscrolling through twitter looking at how fucked our world is
Person 1: m’kay have fun with that
doomscrolling by KittyKutter73 June 10, 2020

Coomscrolling

Verb:
Similar to doomscrolling in that you scroll through a feed mindlessly. But instead of scrolling past what is mostly bad news. You scroll through a feed of pornography, likely while masterbating.
Jerry was stuck in a loop of coomscrolling through reddit.
Coomscrolling by goodisfed January 4, 2023