Doomer Girl is, a month into her young life, a generalized prompt. She’s the basic idea of a melancholy girl with an elegant bob—neutral to some, inspirational to others.

Doomer TV shows like The Last of Us and Station Eleven depict potentialities but often fail to adequately convey “the before” outside of snippets and flashbacks.

Sure enough, a doomer perspective seems most at home in so-called climate fiction (cli-fi for short). The genre, which imagines stories and worlds shaped by climate change, is sometimes considered ...

Using doomer slang may be contributing to feelings of impending doom. Here’s how to manage it.