The recognizable narrative trajectory of a doomscrolling session: you pick up your phone for one quick check, you find something alarming, you start clicking related threads, and forty minutes later you're reading a six-year-old geopolitical article at 1am with a racing heart. Naming it a doomscrolling arc applies the language of storytelling to digital self-destruction — acknowledging that there's a beginning, an escalation, and an inevitable awful ending.
I'm watching myself go through the full doomscrolling arc right now and I can't stop it.
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