Doomscrolling – doomsurfing; the act of consuming an endless procession of negative online news, to the detriment of the scroller’s mental wellness; the tendency to continue to surf or scroll through bad news, even though that news is saddening, disheartening, or depressing; the practice of obsessively checking online news for updates, especially on social media feeds, with the expectation that the news will be bad, such that the feeling of dread from this negative expectation fuels a compulsion to continue looking for updates in a self-perpetuating cycle.
This is Public Address’s word of the year.
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