'Analog Bags' Are In. Doomscrolling Is Out. (axios.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/23/212230/analog-bags-are-in-doomscrolling-is-out
- Source link: https://www.axios.com/2025/10/23/analog-bag-screen-free-wellness
> The latest must-have accessory is a "stop-scrolling bag" -- a tote [2]packed with analog activities like watercolors and crossword puzzles . We spend hours glued to our screens. "Analog bags," as they're also called, are one way millennials and Gen Zers are reclaiming that time. "I basically just put everything I could grab for instead of my phone into a bag," including knitting, a scrapbook and a Polaroid camera, says Sierra Campbell, the content creator behind the trend.
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> The 31-year-old keeps one bag at home in Northern California, carrying it from room to room, and another in her car. The trend has quickly spread on social media, part of a bigger shift to unplug. Roughly 1,600 TikTok posts were tagged #AnalogLife during the first nine months of 2025 -- up over 330% from the same period last year, according to TikTok data shared with Axios.
"It speaks to an incredible desperation and desire for experiences that return our attention to us, that fight brain-rotting, that are tactile ... that involve creating over scrolling," says Beth McGroarty, vice president of research at the Global Wellness Institute.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~alternative_right
[2] https://www.axios.com/2025/10/23/analog-bag-screen-free-wellness
Learn guitar (Score:2)
It's portable. Could put it in a bag if you want. Although a hard case would protect it better. Easy to learn, your first three chords are just a few days away.
Re: Learn guitar (Score:1)
Chords? Naaa! 0-3-5-0-3-6-5-0-3-5-3-0
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And fire in the sky.
Good Grief. (Score:2)
> "I basically just put everything I could grab for instead of my phone into a bag," including knitting, a scrapbook and a Polaroid camera, says Sierra Campbell, the content creator behind the trend.
Ah. A "content creator".
Say no more.
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Put some random stuff in a sack, record yourself talking about it for hours, edit very carefully, plaster and distribute it all across The Socials, get an Axios article to promote your video, spend days in the comments section discussing how great it is that you were able to separate from social media .
Me, personally, I carry around paperbacks and don't post about it on TikBook.
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I don't carry around my paperbacks "room to room" though. I take one to work (or wherever I'm going) and bring it back home where it stays in its spot unless I'm in the act of reading it.
Carrying a bag of random shit around with you "room to room" sounds bizarre, like you're just substituting your phone with something else to grip. Fixating on the possession of an object rather than whatever you could do with it. Do you even knit, bro?
Analog bag (Score:2)
I always keep two balls in mine. You never know when they'll come in handy.
Get off my lawn (Score:2)
In my day, the whole world was an "analog bag".
Mainly because my parents were too cheap to buy me the TRS-80 I kept harping about.
Use an Airtag so you don't loose it (Score:2)
Irony 101
Reminiscent of a Sci-Fi short story (Score:2)
This reminds me of the excellent Sci-Fi short story [1] Better Living Through Algorithms [clarkesworldmagazine.com].
[1] https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_05_23/
Mommy bag / Kid Travel Bag (Score:2)
Used to be called a "Kid's Travel Bag" and all good mothers carried one for their children when on a long car ride.
Crayons, paper, stuffed animal, fidget toy, Juice box, animal crackers, piece of fruit, jacks, rubik's cube, sippy cups for the kid.
Water bottle, band-aids, napkins, ziplock bags, wet wipes, maybe some spare underwear, Sunglasses, Hair Ties, tide stick, chapstick, suntan lotion, tampons.
This just in (Score:2)
TikTok content creator says this thing she's promoting on TikTok is the latest hot trend!
The irony (Score:3)
You create a digital bag to unplug. Then you go and post about it repeatedly on TikTok and other doomscrolling platform.
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> You create a digital bag to unplug. Then you go and post about it repeatedly on TikTok and other doomscrolling platform.
This. First rule of retro media haters fight club should have been shut the fuck up about it.
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HA. The whole point of being retro is the hipster aspect of being cooler. But no one can be cool if they are not socially observed as being cool. It's the tree falling in the forest. You are only cool if people know you are cool. Affectations of retro style require humble bragging.
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I really need to get some self discipline. As much as I try I keep checking Reddit. I loath myself. The only good thing to happen in the last few years was Elon buying twitter. That made getting unhooked on that time waste easy. But Reddit became my methadone.
I've resolved that I'm going to start hitting you tube for educational videos. Gonna learn Lie Group theory!
The problem is Trump. Everyday I have to see what fresh hell he's caused. Life was so placid when we had Biden or Obama or George Bush.
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Part of the zeitgeist. Self-congratulatory for every little thing. Used some childhood references for your artistic endeavor? New genre. Rephrased a tired trope as a meme? Biting cultural criticism.
Likes are the new participation trophy.
And now- bring a different distraction because you are finally sick of the dead internet? Analogue bags.
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The real irony is treating it like it is some new discovery, or like it's some ancient sacred knowledge dug up out of the sands of time on clay tablets and painstakingly translated out of cuneiform.
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Clay tablets sound like just the thing for an analog bag.