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Who Is The Doomer? – Dealing With An Age Of Hopelessness

Pursuit of Wonder | October 8, 2025



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In an age where information overload has caused traditional meaning to be lost and replaced with a discontent for humanity, we have found ourselves with a generation of sadness, loneliness, and hopelessness. In this video, we explore our take on the outlook of this ‘doomer’ generation and some potential means of overcoming the pessimism found within it.

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  2. @Cranker-r8g

    October 8, 2025 at 7:31 pm

    HELL YEAH DUDES, LET'S BLOOM TOGETHER ❤! Man, i hope that all of you who are currently watching the video will be able to continue moving forward, i wish a good day to every single one of y'all.

  4. @abhirupsen9252

    October 8, 2025 at 7:31 pm

    I have a little doubt, if expressing oneself through music and art is the answer to the doomer epidemic, why is it that influencers who express themselves in artistic ways usually end up personifying this doomer lifestyle behind the scenes

  6. @Red-Wolf-Ben

    October 8, 2025 at 7:31 pm

    I think I'm a bloomer. As I approach my fortieth birthday in November, the real meaningless of life is becoming more and more apparent all the time. But on the other hand, I still can't help noticing the good things in life, the beauty of the world, the good that still exists in people, sometimes at surprising moments.

  9. @insidious_redemption

    October 8, 2025 at 7:31 pm

    It's because there's a thing with anyone born like me in 2007 and 1992 our new life is not how it once was it is hopeless trying to get past the life we originally had look at us 1992 and 2007 people we've already experienced 9 generational leaps in the span of 20 to 16 fucking years it was greater when you realised we've been through everything I'm 18 and autistic I am a doomer I was born in 2007 with lingering notion that what we know will happen already before it's even stated we see nothing but meaninglessness something that meant everything in the world we once loved we've watched everything unfold in front of us I have been through 9 generational leaps in 16 fucking years of my life and it was always leading to fun untill 2020 hit and I lost 4 people I loved I lost my friends I have nobody else but my suicidal depression and the annihilation is the main problem you can't trust people anymore relationships barely last a week in this generation now the things I once enjoyed in my life I watched get destroyed, died in my arms, lost in favour of them wanting more there is no purpose when the generation is failing itself I'm 18 and my hair has gone white because of the amount of shit I've seen and realised meant nothing I stopped playing games, I stopped eating, sleeping, interacting because it felt so empty you can't talk with people nowadays when you realise that now even talking to people feels dead and soulless because ai has taken over because life is battling itself rather than solving it's own damn problems if we had our own generation back that would have made things better we still have that opportunity but nobody understands that we can just make things go back to how they were we have the technology to stop changes fucking christ if we wanted too we could go back to the time MacDonalds had the colourful kids playgrounds where everything meant everything entirely we don't need a generation with no colour but society won't see that which is why I am a doomer because there's no point trying when the generation and society of idiots won't listen to opportunity and refusing to take it why tf do you think I am the way I am

  11. @holyfaust

    October 8, 2025 at 7:31 pm

    I came across this video in 2022, I was coming from years od depression, in a dead end relationship, heavy drinking and working in McDonalds. I watched this and it inspired me so much, I started investing in myself, accepted the world as it is and started to create a meaning that was my own while loving the process even with the sacrifices that inevitably come with it. I quit the job, quit drinking for good, ended the painful relationship and started taking music seriously. Today I’m studying philosophy at university, I’ve been blessed with a job in a record label, I reconnected with making art and been working on my body after years of neglet and self-destruction, It’s been the best years of my life so far and I’m only 24, can’t wait to see what’s ahead. God bless you and thank you for this life-changing piece of content.

  18. @valkeriejones3818

    October 8, 2025 at 7:31 pm

    Just checking in from 2025 to find that all of this was pretty on the money. Retirement, job opportunities, climate change, and Social Security aren't looking good in the US. 4-9-2025

  23. @CarlFredrik-uo1cu

    October 8, 2025 at 7:31 pm

    "What I think has led to doomers:

    Totally unrealistic expectations of humanity and life because of christianity and movies/tv (as well as the idea that everyone is fundamentally good and we should all try to do the right thing and shit… and that "all women are wonderful" etc.) I think this is the most harmful. The saddest people I know are all naive and idealistic and have been shattered by people letting them down.

    Wages for lower skilled jobs being too little to support a family. There's no purpose for many men now.

    Over abundance of stimulation from porn, music, movies/tv. It's WAY too easy to scrape through the day on a bare minimum of unsatisfying hedonism.

    Isolation and lack of movement. We're stuck in urban areas, looking at screens. We need to be outside, around green things.

    Being in competitiion with every man in the world, instead of just with the men of your village. How is anyone supposed to measure up?

    I'm trying so hard to be a bloomer and I'm luckier than most. I have a decent job that pays quite well, I have a fairly good circle of friends, and I'm even dating a really hot girl right now (though I can't figure her out and I don't think she wants a relationship) but I still can't shake the doomer feeling because it seems like it could all just melt away at any second."

    A comment I read a while back.

  26. @twilightwalker3260

    October 8, 2025 at 7:31 pm

    I`m probably not the first nor the last to say this. How we`ve let this get out of hand is simply beyond words. It deeply scares me that all that technological progress had lead to this.

  29. @copo0177

    October 8, 2025 at 7:31 pm

    I'm going through a difficult time. I'm so hopeless about life almost every day. When I go to highschool and see everyone being so happy and outgoing.. It just doesn't make sense to me. I wish I were like them. Maybe then I could be happier and less anxious about life. Maybe I could find something enjoyable that might make me feel good.
    Or maybe I deserve to be like this.
    I'm really tired of me. Of always ruining everything. I know I self-sabotage. But it seems now it's the end. There's nothing else I can do.

    Maybe I expect to read this comment years after and be better with myself. But that's a beautiful lie. It's more likely not to happen.

    I don't know why I am alive.

    Maybe hobbies, jobs and all activities are to make our existence more approchable and to think less about how stupid is our life because we don't have any purpose.

    I just wish I would be dead. I don't want to live anymore. I've already had enough..

  31. @RestedTÖST

    October 8, 2025 at 7:31 pm

    I align better with the boomer, there’s this casual rose tinted view like I’m not really here and this is all me dreaming. A really happy dream. Life should be casual and peaceful all the time. Why are we rushing through it. Nature is right there. Nature isn’t trying to be fast, it’s around forever. We should do the same. I feel very warm and peaceful.

  33. @Hollowdude15

    October 8, 2025 at 7:31 pm

    I never knew that the meme was a character called doomer and I did not no they have counter characters that was memes to that are called boomer bloomer and zoomer and great video Pursuit Of Wonder :]

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