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I want to answer your question, but i don’t know what “negative-emotion-producing-material” means, nor how to look up definitions.

Could you type out an explanation by hand for me?

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Stuff that makes you feel bad; about the state of the world or just life. Helpless, powerless. A story about how orphans died because a billionaire bought the building and kicked then out. Somebody's pet dying. A big corporation steam rolling little people. A friend getting cancer. War.

OK, doom scrolling is “scrolling compulsively” without intention, and with the vague feeling that time would be better spent elsewhere.

It doesn’t have to do with the content.

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