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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!
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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
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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
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The act of consuming an endless procession of negative online news.
"Are they changing the name of Twitter to doomscrolling"
by itsKP November 03, 2020
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Searching for the most depressing, conspiracy ridden, fake news online articles just to see how far some people will go with their ideas and views.
My life has been so much better since I quit Doomscrolling all the time.
by Real_NoobToob June 10, 2020
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