How Doom scrolling Affects Human Creativity: The Role of Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and TikTok

• Overloading the mind with the whale of information

Doom scrolling reflects the weighty and floodless waters of brain. With all these Reels, YouTube Shorts, and especially-the famous TikTok, a mind grows resistant when it comes to developing meaningful ideas and gives wings to its creativity.

• Diminished Attention Spans

Faster-bite sized formats train a user to prefer fast gratification as opposed to tasks requiring extensive thinking and prolonged concentration, very important for a user to develop creativity.

• More Passive Consumption than Creation Activity
  

This primarily tends to lead a person into just passive consumption through watching short videos. He has little motivation left to create or produce anything himself and this limits creative processes.

• Inhibition of Original Thinking
  

When TikTok, Reels, and Shorts are overwatch trends with viral formats, the original thoughts are greatly blocked. And most of the viewers unconsciously copy those things instead of creating new ones; thus their creative thinking ability goes downhill.

• Increased Anxiety and Stress

Doom scrolling typically includes viewing the content that creates some negativity or induces anxiety in people. Stress, as we have seen, restricts the healthy creative flow of thinking since it drains energy into counteracting those negative emotional responses, rendering sparse ideas from the brain.

• Drain time while being active in productive activities
  

Endless scrolling consumes most of the time that you could use for your hobbies, brainstorming, and talent development, all of which are important in feeding creativity and personal growth.

• Dependency on External Validation
  

Likes, views, and shares appear to be existent-only markers of performance in these platforms. This thereby establishes a craving for outside validation as the internal inspiration for making something genuinely personal diminishes.