The apex of a doomscrolling spiral — the point where the content has gotten so bad, the session so long, and the anxiety so fully engaged that you've reached a kind of terrible completion. Peak doomscrolling is recognizable: it's 2am, you've gone from a minor news item to a six-thread geopolitical deep dive, and you feel profoundly informed and deeply unwell simultaneously. It's also used to describe entire eras when collective doom consumption reaches a historical extreme.
That election night was peak doomscrolling — I didn't put my phone down for six hours and felt nothing by the end.
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