Comment by jhbadger
4 months ago
It's like doomscrolling. Originally it meant compulsively reading depressing content about the state of the world, wars, etc., explaining the "doom" part, but eventually it evolved (or perhaps devolved) into just meaning obsessively checking any sort of online content whether or not it was depressing.
I honestly though the doom part was about you being stuck in an horrible loop / situation, not the essence of the news
in a lot of ways that is understandable when so much of the news is bad news, if all the highlights of the day point toward the world going to hell even reading a normal newsfeed can feel like doomscrolling.