It's like an entire cohort of people forgot that social media could be fun, and just decided This Is What We Have, Now. Another thing to just put up with.

I've been thinking about the A Scanner Darkly afterward a lot in the past few years wrt this kind of thing, but: 'In this particular life-style the motto is "Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying.". But the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory.'

It wasn't always doomscrolling.

It’s especially eye-rolling to see journalists insist we have to go back to Twitter because that’s where the news is happening (because that’s where they are hanging out). As my mother would say, “your arms and legs aren’t painted on!”.