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Generated interpretation, not documentary evidence. Invented phone beside a curling, apparently endless strip of blank gray cards in a dim room; metaphor for scrolling, not a real newsfeed or diagnostic image.
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The following original text is preserved, including its selection/vote claims. Preservation is not independent verification of every assertion.
Why: Endlessly reading bad news online.
What to preserve: the term, studies
Year and origin: 2020 · United States
Vote: 5/9 (historian 2 · future kid 1 · curator 2)
Learn more: Doomscrolling on Wikipedia
Supplemental context
Doomscrolling names a pattern of repeatedly consuming negative online news, bringing a familiar physical gesture into a description of attention and feeling. A 2024 study indexed by Flinders University examined links among this behavior, existential anxiety and attitudes in Iranian and American samples. Its comparative setting helps future readers avoid treating the habit as uniquely American. The research also offers a lesson in evidence: a reported association is not proof that every person who reads bad news will develop the same experience. Our winding strip of blank cards beside a phone is a deliberately nonliteral image of continuation. It contains no real headlines and does not diagnose the person who might use such a device.
Creator/community: Online news readers, platform communities and researchers Place/era: International digital news habits; term prominent in pandemic-era discussion
Context and limits
The source does not establish 2020 as the word's first use or prove a simple causal pathway. Study samples are not the whole population. This cultural entry gives no mental-health diagnosis or treatment advice; Cambridge definition page returned 403 and was not bypassed.
Where to learn more
- https://apiarybee.com/community/reading/biggie-nu-series-008-noahs-ark-set-d-culture-2000
- https://researchnow.flinders.edu.au/en/publications/doomscrolling-evokes-existential-anxiety-and-fosters-pessimism-ab/
Apiary library | Original Culture Ark article
Public ID and individual routes: pending publisher allocation. Internal source ID: D-0927
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