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A person (usually a millennial or generation Z and male) who has experienced apparent hardship (relationship breakup, job loss, failure etc.) and has became fully immersed in apathy, self hatred, depression and generally being a loner. Usually asleep or tired in the day and more active at the night, spending time on the internet or going on long night walks ruminating.

Often has little other hobbies, whilst listening to characteristic music including Slowcore, Eastern European Goth, 'Doomer Wave', Radiohead and the more sombre and depressing forms of Midwest Emo music.

Doomers often want a normal life, but find it hard to understand why everything goes against them and thinks long and hard about a path back to normality.
Person A: I haven't seen Tom in ages. Where is he?

Person B: He took breakup with his gf quite badly, then lost his job. He now spends all his time reading, posting sad status updates and depressing music on Facebook.

Person A: Sounds like Tom has gone full on Doomer.
Doomer by Guess 102 April 1, 2020
Related Words
doompé • doompers • doomer • dooper • Doomies • doomp • dooped • doomed • doopey • doomed yaoi
A person with a pessimistic outlook on life. A doomer feels a sense of helplessness and aimlessness and is often stricken with deep despair for life. For a doomer, life is meaningless, and the world is inevitably doomed by humanity's ignorance and greed.
"I've never seen Tom smile or try to be happy in my life, he's such a doomer"
Doomer by BunnyboyCarrot May 11, 2019

doomposting 

When someone expects the worst possible scenario, regardless of there being evidence to support them. The poster will usually mention that they hope it doesn't happen. However, everything they say always reeks of pessimism.
Poster 1: this decade will be when WW3 starts
Poster 2: lol what?
Poster 1: trust me, I want to be wrong but it'll still happen
Poster 2: stop doomposting
doomposting by ethyr January 27, 2020

doomerette 

I met a doomerette today, she was wearing all black
doomerette by Rcfoolz April 28, 2019

Apocyl Doomer 

Sir Apocyl Doomer is one of the most intelligent men on Earth. He is so intelligent that most people are simply not wise enough to understand what he is saying. He personally attributes this knowledge to the amount of beer he drinks. He also is known for concurring instead of agreeing, a sign of intelligence. Apocyl Doomer is the preeminent scholar of Westsideology.
Apocyl Doomer said: I concur!
A more enlightened update of the incel. Where the incel is chronically alone, and projects his hatred onto women, the doomer has accepted his equally alone fate without resentment. Instead of bitching he listens to Radiohead on evening walks.

Usually in his 20s, the doomer is typically unemployed or doing a dead-end job, tormented by unrequited love, and alienated from most of the population; and this sense of personal aimlessness and despair seeps into his views on the world in general. So he lives in constant despair for humanity's future, with the prospect of ecological catastrophes and economic downturns tormenting his mind. To dull his sense of Weltschmerz he smokes, or drinks, takes drugs. But nothing can quite take away the dread that the doomer constantly feels towards the future. Hence his name.

He is the inheritor of a long tradition of being jaded with the world, and adopting this as a consistent worldview: he looks and nods at those that deny life: Hegesias of Cyrene, the Buddhists, Schopenhauer. But as a product of the modern world, he couldn't pretend that there is any ultimate spiritual redemption at the end. So he can only deny, deny, deny.
After she left him forever, he sat down, despondent and empty. But he mustered up the energy to put on his 90s playlist; and when the guitars from My Bloody Valentine's Loveless screeched their first note, he knew he was now a doomer.
Doomer by Lucian of Samosata March 11, 2019
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