#I think numbscrolling is also seriously real on tiktok if your algorithm doesn’t contain doom | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

thestaplerqueen · 2 years ago

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always have to explain to people I’m not doom scrolling but numb scrolling. the internet is providing me with infinite hours of memes and videos that have nothing to do with the horrid state of the world and I am trapped in an addictive trance til I’m numb. I feel worse but it’s not because I’m amassing doom internally. It’s because I don’t put doom on my feed and my feed is mostly pictures of spiderman and I can’t look away and I can’t look away and I can’t and I need more pictures of spiderman.

#Pictures of spiderman is a stand-in for whatever pleasant posts are on your feed #Pictures of spider man is just realistically what’s on my feed rn #But yeah no I don’t think it’s possible to doomscroll on tumblr #If you only follow people who don’t post doom then it’s just sillyposts and pictures of meows morales #But it is still possible to get completely sucked in for hours until you’re just numbing #But it’s not doomscrolling bc there’s no doom #Same thing happens if I slip up and look at Instagram explore page #It’s all silly and fun and usually stupid lcd relatable posts and I just keep scrolling thinking I’ll find something good #I think numbscrolling is also seriously real on tiktok if your algorithm doesn’t contain doom #That’s why I had to delete it #Addict brain too susceptible to infinite feed of hundreds of hours posted every minute or w/e #And while it’s not scrolling so much this also happens on youtube #Watching videos on 2x speed so you can just cram content into your brain until you can’t feel it anymore

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