A blend of doom, the feeling that something terrible is coming, and scroll, the action of moving through content on a screen. The verb became widely used around 2020.
Keep scrolling through distressing content
verb
technology
informal
To keep looking through bad or upsetting online content for too long, even though it is making you feel anxious, angry, or sad.
Examples
- I started to doomscroll after seeing one alarming headline.
- She doomscrolled until two in the morning.
- Are you doomscrolling again, or are you actually reading the article?
- He deleted the app because he could not stop doomscrolling.
- Don't doomscroll before bed if it leaves you anxious.
- We joked about doomscrolling, but the mood in the room grew heavy.
Similar words
doomsurf
scroll compulsively
obsessively check the news
get lost in bad news
spiral through the news