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Gen Z is “Rawdogging Boredom” on The Viral List

Young women ditching slickbacks for a month, Gen Z romanticizing doing nothing, and U-Haul jumping on a breakup audio are all going viral… 

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KEY TAKEAWAYS
  • Gen Z is trying to fix their fried attention spans by sitting in total silence (and filming it)
  • Young women are ditching gel and slickback buns for a month-long “hairline detox”
  • U-Haul went viral on TikTok for using a breakup call audio, earning praise from Gen Z in the comments
Young people are recording themselves…doing nothing?   In an attempt to fix their broken attention spans and addiction to algorithmic content scrolling, Gen Z is “rawdogging boredom,” a.k.a. setting timers to do absolutely nothing for a few minutes. Is this just a rebrand of “mindfulness” or really, meditation? Of course! (And yes, they’re filming it for content, but we won’t dig too deep into the irony of posting their digital detoxes). Across TikTok, young users are posting time-lapses of themselves sitting in their rooms with blank expressions while a countdown timer faces the camera. Most creators list strict rules that even go...

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