vainscrolling

To scroll through social media feeds out of nothing but internalized habit.
This act doesn’t provide any productive value whatsoever and all the items on one’s feeds simply elicit canned laughs or anger.

A direct descendant of “doomscrolling”.

A: Are you just vainscrolling? Go do something productive with your life for once, faggot.
B: It’s hard not to. You don’t understand. My brain is so normalized to this ritual it’s hard to go against it.
A: Cope.

vainscrolling by mootforsaken December 9, 2021

Painscrolling 

When you're in too much pain to sleep and can't do anything else except lie there, so you scroll aimlessly, hoping it all goes away

(made my user chronicallyuniconic on tumblr)

I spent all day in bed, painscrolling my muscle cramps away

Painscrolling by chronicalsofpain June 11, 2023