doomer
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Doomer is a 21st century neologism for an online subculture of individuals who share extremely pessimistic, nihilist or fatalistic views about global problems such as overpopulation, peak oil, climate change, ecological overshoot, pollution, nuclear weapons, democratic backsliding, economic collapse, and runaway artificial intelligence. Some doomers believe these problems may lead to societal collapse, or even worse, human extinction. The terms doomer and doomerism arose primarily on social media and later experienced a semantic change, becoming Internet slang for pessimism while overlapping w
Key facts
- Music genre.name
- Doomer wave
- Music genre.other_names
- Doomerwave Doomer
- Music genre.stylistic_origins
- Vaporwave post-punk darkwave Russian post-punk slowed and reverb
- Music genre.cultural_origins
- 2010s, United States
- Music genre.other_topics
- Incelcore mallwave
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- Doomer wave
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Doomer is a 21st century neologism for an online subculture of individuals who share extremely pessimistic, nihilist or fatalistic views about global problems such as overpopulation, peak oil, climate change, ecological overshoot, pollution, nuclear weapons, democratic backsliding, economic collapse, and runaway artificial intelligence. Some doomers believe these problems may lead to societal collapse, or even worse, human extinction. The terms doomer and doomerism arose primarily on social media and later experienced a semantic change, becoming Internet slang for pessimism while overlapping with the incel subculture and blackpill.
Malthusians like Paul R. Ehrlich, Guy McPherson and Michael Ruppert have related doomerism to Malthusianism, an economic philosophy holding that human resource use will eventually exceed resource availability, leading to societal collapse, social unrest, or population decline.