The Negative Impact of Online "Mourning Culture" on Adolescents' Self-identity and Countermeasures

Abstract

As an emerging online term, "mourning culture" represents a subculture that is prevalent among contemporary teenagers. Most of them rely on "memes" or a series of works expressing negative emotions for dissemination, coupled with the promotion of new media platforms, the spread of online "mourning culture" in recent years is extremely fast and widespread. With the popularization of electronic communication products, the trend of "mourning culture" also has a younger trend, which promotes a decadent and numb lifestyle and attitude, with strong penetration and dissemination power, and the psychological reasons behind it are complex and diverse. Teenagers are keen to express their dissatisfaction with reality on the Internet with "mourning pictures", so they have gradually derived their unique "mourning culture", which has also become the main channel for them to vent their negative emotions. For minors, especially adolescents who have not successfully acquired self-identity, the "mourning culture" affects their smooth acquisition of self-identity on the road to growth. It is necessary to reflect on the root cause of the "mourning culture", pay attention to the reasonable needs of young people, and correctly guide young people to understand themselves.