“Doomscroller’s Delight” is a seamless looping video art that plunges viewers into a darkly humorous dystopian future where the addictive nature of doom scrolling has reached absurd extremes. Constructed from bones and driftwood, a crudely fashioned machine embodies this digital compulsion, rapidly scrolling through social media feeds with minimal human effort. This unsettling contraption, a bizarre fusion of primitive materials and rudimentary technology, highlights the irony of automating even the smallest of actions, suggesting a world where convenience trumps meaningful engagement.
The video explores the potential consequences of meaningless digital consumption, satirizing the modern obsession with endless content and the resulting stagnation of progress. Driven by both addiction and laziness, the machine’s creator has engineered a tool for digital indulgence, minimizing the physical effort required for endless scrolling. This work serves as a cautionary statement, prompting reflection on the value of time and the potential for technology to both connect and enslave us. It is a wake-up call, urging viewers to critically examine their relationship with technology and break free from the cycle of endless scrolling.

The video was made with photo collage animation technique. All asset images, with the exception of three images from Creative Commons sources, were generated using MidJourney v.5, then edited in Adobe Photoshop and animated in After Effects. The content displayed on the phone screen (the reels) was created using an image-and-text-to-video tool within Kling AI v.1.6.