What Does 'Scroll Hole' Mean?

[ SOCIAL MEDIA ][ ATTENTION ECONOMY ]

FORCE: Attention EconomyUNIVERSE: Social MediaCLUSTER: Algorithmic Compulsion Loops

The subjective experience of losing track of time while scrolling a feed, describing the personal sensation of falling into a black hole rather than the platform's engineered mechanism behind it.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"Opened the app for thirty seconds and fell straight into a scroll hole for an hour."

LORE & ORIGIN

A casual, first-person complement to the more mechanism-focused "scroll trap," describing what the trap actually feels like from inside it.

FIRST SEEN

2022

PEAK POPULARITY

2026 (Social Media)

CURRENT STATUS

Legacy / Decaying Slang

Related To:Scroll Trap Doomscrolling

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EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES

中文 zh-CN刷屏黑洞 →日本語 ja-JPスクロールホール →한국어 ko-KR스크롤 홀 →Español es-ESagujero de scroll →Português pt-BRburaco de scroll →Français fr-FRtrou de scroll →

AURA IMPACT ⓘ

+1 AURA

TREND STATUS

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MENTIONS OVER TIME

DOCUMENTED SINCE

2022

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