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Hopecore Might Be The Internet’s Cry For Help

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I am perched on my sofa, back hunched, scrolling TikTok, deep in my daily doomscrolling session. I have a complex relationship with this app, believing it to be both terrible and brilliant, a paradoxical belief that has caused me to exhibit contrasting behaviours towards it. I delete it off my phone for months at a time, insistent that I will never need it again, then redownload it on the spur of the moment and gawk at it for hours each day. Currently, it is very much back, and I am sucked back into the madness of the For You page, in which my brain tries to process influencer marketing interspersed with footage of the atrocities in Gaza, jumping from one emotion to the next at breakneck speed, as if this format is completely normal. I feel exhausted by the autoplay, the algorithm, and the sheer volume of it all, an endless list of content that I could hypothetically watch forever. During this particular scroll, a strange caption to an otherwise unassuming meme grabs my attention. It’s

Hopecore Might Be The Internet’s Cry For Help How one TikTok trend is reinstating hopefulness and motivation among users. By Emily Read Published I am perched on my sofa, back hunched, scrolling TikTok, deep in my daily doomscrolling session. I have a complex relationship with this app, believing it to be both terrible and brilliant, a paradoxical belief that has caused me to exhibit contrasting behaviours towards it. I delete it off my phone for months at a time, insistent that I will never need it again, then redownload it on the spur of the moment and gawk at it for hours each day. Currentl

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