What Does This Mean?
Continuing to scroll through negative or anxiety-inducing content well past the point of any benefit, unable to stop despite feeling worse.
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BBC Learning English · original source ↗
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REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"It's 2am and I'm still doom scrolling news I can't do anything about."
LORE & ORIGIN
Standard, widely established internet term for the specific compulsive negative-content scrolling pattern first named around 2018.
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