doomscroll

Originally, doomscrolling meant scrolling as a doomer (someone who is pessimistic about everything,) feeling worse about yourself and the world the more you scrolled.

Nowadays, to doomscroll is to scroll on an app or website forever; until your doom.

I am going to doomscroll for the next 5 hours and ignore my responsibilities to my detriment.

by LuxuriantCarrot February 17, 2025

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!

by PenelopePenguin March 24, 2020

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.

by Scrolly McScrollface March 24, 2020

Doomscrolling

The act of consuming an endless procession of negative online news.

"Are they changing the name of Twitter to 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

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.

by goodisfed January 4, 2023

Doomscrolling

When you start scrolling and just can’t stop. You’re doomed cuz you can’t stop yourself.

I got on Reddit and couldn’t stop scrolling for new posts, unable to stop. I was doomscrolling.

by X-Pseudonym February 22, 2023