As one of the many iterations of the meme goes, a Doomer “pays for his phone but only use it to know what time it is.” They are no longer pursuing friendships or relationships, and get no joy from anything because they know that the world is coming to an end. Whereas Bloomers are well adjusted and Gloomers are depressed because they are not, Doomers have simply stopped trying. Doomers, meanwhile, are the nihilistic cousins of “Bloomers” and “Gloomers,” all three gradients of the same 20-something. “Zoomers” are teenagers whose entire personalities were molded by the algorithms of SoundCloud and YouTube. The original was a “30-year-old Boomer,” created on 4chan to make fun of Millennials who espouse ideas associated with Baby Boomers. But Doomer Girl shows how the reverse can happen too: A cruel idea gets whittled down and recirculated without context, because its origin is less interesting than the creative possibilities.įor the past year and a half, crudely drawn internet characters named with the -oomer suffix have been getting odder and more specific. In the history of memes, the familiar story is one of harmless images accruing sinister meanings that turn them into weapons-the most famous example being Pepe the Frog, an innocuous web-comic character that was co-opted by various extremist groups leading up to the 2016 election. The viral spread was driven largely by women who were removing her from a context in which she was a mechanism of male self-mythologizing and remaking her into something joyful.ĭoomer Girl was posted by an anonymous 4chan user in January 2020. (A classic!)ĭoomer Girl could have waxed and waned and died there, but she was plucked from 4chan and moved to Reddit, then onto Tumblr and Twitter and Instagram in a matter of days. In Doomer comics, the joke is that Doomer Girl should realize she is Doomer’s perfect match, but she rejects him instead because she’s a woman, and women live only to withhold. She was created as the female counterpart to another cartoon character called Doomer, a ragged-looking guy with three-day scruff, a black beanie, and a cigarette perpetually dangling from his mouth. She came out of 4chan, the infamous hotbed of frequently racist and misogynistic internet culture. Who hasn’t cosplayed as one of those? But Doomer Girl’s past is as twisted as her implied outlook on life. To Doomer Girl’s fans, who are mostly young women, her appeal is simple enough: If Doomer Girl were real, she’d be a cool girl, dark and sad in a stylish way. “Her aesthetic looks similar to mine and, well, I’m a depressed 21-year-old just trying to survive HAHAHA,” Luna, a cosplayer from the Philippines, wrote to me on Twitter. Her eyes are canonically dark, but new drawings of her sometimes make them green her black sweater has been replaced with a muscle tank. Already, Doomer Girl’s image has become flexible. Some people post pictures of themselves dressed up as her. Fans have since flooded Twitter with art depicting the character’s imagined friendships or romantic relationships with other internet-famous cartoon women. People started sharing the original sketch of her on social media less than a month ago, clearing and refilling the thought bubble above her head each time. She’s aspirational-gloomy, like Billie Eilish with a bob and no hands.ĭoomer Girl is also almost unaccountably popular. She has a lightly sad expression and a permanent blush that give the impression she is bummed, but not dysfunctionally so. Visually, there’s not much to Doomer Girl beyond that. The newest is Doomer Girl, a quickly sketched cartoon woman with black hair, black clothes, and sad eyes ringed with red makeup. The internet’s cast of characters always has room for one more.
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