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How Gen Z TikTokers Replaced Doom Scrolling With #Hopecore

DESPAIR NO MORE

After a rise in internet nihilism during the Trump era, something surprisingly optimistic is happening online in 2023.

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Zaid Khan has spent most of his life on the internet, and though he considers himself optimistic by nature, doom-scrolling through news stories and being bombarded with fatalistic content online can make that natural positivity difficult to maintain.

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