Describes content, platforms, UX design, or even people that seem specifically engineered to produce the doomscrolling effect — relentlessly negative, anxiety-maximizing, impossible to disengage from. A doomscrolling coded app is designed to keep you in the loop of outrage and urgency. A doomscrolling coded person bombards you with alarming news without any emotional filter. The implication is that this quality isn't accidental — it's built in.
That app is so doomscrolling coded — every notification is something terrible and I can't delete it.
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Viral internet speak — memes, ratios, main-character moments, and the algospeak of every platform from Twitter to Reddit to TikTok comment sections.
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