The subreddit r/doomer was created in 2009 as a place for doomers to express their feelings and thoughts. A post written by Redditor u/newdoomr on 18 January 2020 titled "notes from a doomer" lists the doomer frustrations to the public at-large, questioning how they "are not all walking around in a state of pure unquellable panic." Expressed within the text of the post is a determination that doomers are "awake" to the knowledge that the world is a cruel, sick, and meaningless place, that humans are only capable of destroying the natural world, and that even if doomers could "ascend" past their anxieties, it would be pointless, as the world is faced with inevitable collapse.