Within minutes, social media feeds filled with videos, breaking news alerts, and speculation about what might happen next. Moments like this are when social media can quickly turn into doomscrolling—the compulsive consumption of bad news delivered through endless updates, alerts, and algorithmically amplified crises. A quick check for information can easily spiral into a stream of war updates, political instability, cyberattacks, and constant crisis coverage. With confirmed information emerging slowly but updates arriving constantly, many users find themselves refreshing feeds repeatedly, trying to piece together events in real time. Shabahang says the behavior can resemble a form of indirect trauma exposure.