Doomerism: Americans feeling better about retirement prospects but let’s spin negative!
This is bad – the article documents things are better, but the original title was “Retirement will ‘take a miracle’ for 21%.
Where Gen Z is traveling in 2025
The “struggling” generation for which everything is awful is apparently planning a lot of international travel for the fall of 2025, says AirBnb.
Media: Click-bait headlines of The Cool Down
The Cool Down’s headlines are funny for their attempt at emotional triggers based on a faux appeal to authority.
Why put “Musk” in front of these story titles?
Why does the media preface any story about Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink, etc, with “Musk’s” …
Social media and stress
How the culture of perpetual outrage causes some to be in a constant state of fear and anger, leading to significant health problems. It is not a healthy way to live.
Media: Everything is awful, scary, terrifying
How the media shapes your emotions – everything is awful, scary, terrifying, getting worse blah blah blah. This screen snapshot is from Drudge Report taken on July 15, 2025.
Media: “It’s impossible to say” but we will say it anyway
It’s impossible to make this claim, says ABC News, but we will make it anyway…
Media: Canada’s “mass graves” story collapsed
Several years ago, the world erupted in anger over allegations that perhaps 1000s of indigeneous children had died in Canadian schools and were buried in unmarked graves. The story turned out not to be true.
Doomerism and content mills
Authoritative news service BoredPanda says there a lot of potential disasters that we just don’t know about! Scary! 100% sourced to anonymous Reddit posts! Content mill doomerism as its finest!