"I have two YouTube videos in my Watch Later that I have ironically been procrastinating on watching: replacing doomscrolling with writing (how to finally write your novel) and Self Education: Your Best Defense Against Brain Rot. Both videos take an almost combative stance against the use of social media, largely because spending time on the platform du jour often devolves into doomscrolling for hours until your brain rots."
"We all surely know what "doomscrolling" is by now: it is the tendency to lose hours on social media, often encountering a potent cocktail of bad news, drama, outrage and internet ire. Brain rot, which was the Oxford Word of the Year for 2024, seems to be the natural result of doomscrolling. Oxford defined "brain rot" as "the supposed deterioration of a person's mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content)""
Two YouTube videos encourage replacing doomscrolling with writing and advocate self-education as defense against 'brain rot.' Both videos adopt a combative stance toward social media because platform use often devolves into hours of doomscrolling. Doomscrolling is the tendency to lose hours on social media while encountering bad news, drama, outrage and internet ire. Oxford named 'brain rot' Word of the Year 2024 and defined it as deterioration of mental or intellectual state from overconsumption of trivial online content. Effects include eroding attention spans, fraying social lives, and designers of habit-forming apps bear responsibility for encouraging addictive screen use.
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