Doomer
Etymology
Coined from "doom" as part of a family of "Wojak" cartoon characters that spread on 4chan around 2018 — Doomer, Bloomer, Zoomer, Coomer. The Doomer was drawn as a hollow-eyed young man in a beanie; his opposite, the Bloomer, is a hopeful counterpart who chooses to flourish anyway. Both began as memes but became genuinely useful labels for two stances toward an uncertain future.
noun · /DOO-mer/
A person convinced that the future — economic, ecological, or personal — is hopeless, and who has largely stopped trying because of it.
What it names
It captures a distinct posture that is more than pessimism: a fatalism that becomes an identity and an excuse for disengagement, which makes it worth naming so it can be argued with.
Example
He’s gone full doomer about the climate — won’t recycle because he says none of it matters now.
Related idea
A bloomer faces the same grim facts as a doomer but resolves to act and hope anyway; the pair frames despair and defiant optimism as choices rather than verdicts.