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You know when your friend says he’s taking a gap year to learn stock trading, and lock in to become a millionaire, saying that this is their year but ends, up doing absolutely nothing and procrastinating the entire Well, if you, thought that was bad, this trend on Doian pretty much just accepts all of, that last part. And no, it’s not about actual rats on the subways of New York.This is people in China calling themselves rats in the most self-aware, way possible. Wake up at noon, don’t leave the bed. Only move to order, takeout. Spend 10 plus hours doom scrolling in the dark. No sun, no plans,no ambitions, just pure NPC hibernation. So, this whole rap people wave really, started blowing up around early 2025. A young creator from Jang posted a vlog, showing her normal day. Her routine went like this. Wakes up around noon, stays, in bed, doom scrolling on her phone until 3:00 p.m. Slowly migrates from bed, to sofa, not not outside. All right, let let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Orders.
delivery for all three meals. I mean, I can’t even order Uber Eats without the, delivery costing the same as the food. She works remotely for an e-commerce, company, so technically she’s not unemployed at all. She just plays life, on ultra low power saving mode. She basically avoids unnecessary, communication with co-workers, so your team’s meeting invite is being left on, red. And she says, “We don’t live to leave a deep impression on others. We, just need to live comfortably.” Crawls back under the covers by 8:00 p.m.Spends the rest of the night napping, scrolling, repeat. And at the end, she, hits everyone with, “How can a person be so happy?Even the dog has embodied your lifestyle. She turned doing absolutely, nothing into an aesthetic. Others flexed even harder. I only get up once a day to, go eat and can go days without washing. Her schedule is still too high energy, compared to mine. And it became competitive laziness. Not who woke up.
earliest, but who left the bed the least. Peak unemployed Olympics, breakfast at 10:00 p.m. reading labu stories at 1:00 a.m. How to pursue this?A lot of the times people fetishize this. For a lot of viewers, it removes, some of the guilt of not living to that hyperproductive ideal. We’re tired of, sophisticated, fast-paced, efficient lifestyles imposed on us. We just want, to live a life of leisure and relaxation. Like, if someone with a huge, platform can’t be openly lazy, maybe you’re not so bad for being a bit too, tired, too. And even merch and plushies have spawned from this. Some skincare, and lifestyle brands have even collabed with influencers making low energy, homebody vlogs. Here’s my 24-hour rat person routine sponsored by this face, mask. Bagging brand deals while lying in bed all day. Passive income final boss.Then you’ve got couples doing it together because what’s better than one, fried dopamine receptor? Two fried dopamine receptors.That cat looks traumatized.
That was an adventurous day. Benefits of not getting married. Staying home is so, wonderful. I can sleep whenever I want with low desires and low appetite. This, is the form of an iPad kid, but as an adult. I’m so envious. When I grow up, I, want to be like that, too. The whole aesthetic is purposely self-deprecating, and kind of messed up. But that’s the point. Now, we got to talk about, Tongping, which is the term for lying flat, where it all originated from.Basically, the beta version of rat people. Back then, everybody was talking, about China’s 996 work culture. Working from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. 6 days a, week. People were expected to grind non-stop and call it hustle instead of, self-destruction. No marriage rush, no buying a house just because parents said, so, just doing the bare minimum so you could stay sane. And well, the, authorities were not so amused. The administration told platforms to censor, lying flat content. They said young people need to work hard, not lie down.
But when you censor the word, you don’t censor the feeling. So just respond in, new forms like la shurin. Now, when you look at one of these stores alone, it’s, easy to say, “Bro, just get up and touch some grass.” But when you zoom out and, see thousands of these diaries, you’ll start to see a pattern. Bed, toilet,front door, back to bed. Powerless in the face of the job market, but oddly, safe and comforted by their little routines. Basically, I can’t fix the, system, but at least I can create a tiny world where I feel okay. Even if that, world is just my bed, my blanket, and my phone. Now, how about we take that lying, flat energy offline and bring it up a mountain? the Chongqing Bachelor, Brothers. These guys basically said, “Why be a rat in a tiny apartment when, we can lie flat on a mountain with the boys.” Basically lying flat but on, steroids. They ditched city life and headed back to rural hills cuz they, really couldn’t make a living in the city. And they didn’t want to do.
physical hard labor. So the only choice you have, go home, gather a squad of, single men to form a bachelor lodge. Their lifestyle pledge was basically no, mortgage, no car loan, no wife, just eating, sleeping, and lightly farming, life for content. Their videos show them doing these goofy praying mantis dances,growing veggies, wearing ragged clothes on purpose, and pretty much selling this, extreme we lie down and do nothing aesthetic. Why should I, a person with, no mortgage, no car loan, no offspring, work for you or risk my life for you?You got there.That’s the point.Everyone loved it. The Bachelor Lodge became a symbol of freedom. These guys, were like the Avengers of lying flat youth. But of course, state media and, people with more traditional values did not approve. Said they were misleading, young people and basically doing all this for attention. If young people, depend on acting pitiful and making themselves look ugly just to get clicks,
what hope does society have? Then came the plot twist. Bringing the lying flat, lifestyle from a private bedroom to public was apparently one step too far.On May 15th, Bachelor bro suddenly announced that the Bachelor Lodge had to, shut down [screaming] due to unspecified forced factors. He didn’t say what, happened, but of course we know why. The group’s content about refusing to work,refusing to marry, and lying flat together as a group flew too close to, the sun. China state controlled media. The authorities don’t like any organized, group of unemployed people trying to send a message, even if it’s packaged as, jokes. Whether that’s 100% accurate or not, the whole incident showed how fast, a meme about laziness can become a stability risk in the eyes of Chongqing.Now, before these people were bragging about surviving on milk tea and screens,there was the OG, the final boss of not trying, the pioneer of horizontal, living, a kind traveler. This man didn’t just lie flat. He sped ran life on easy.
mode and then wrote a guide book for everyone else. He drops a legendary post, titled Lying Down is Justice. In it, he confesses he hasn’t had a stable job in, 2 years, and he absolutely feels zero guilt towards it. His survival strategy,not hustle culture, not tech entrepreneurship. Nah, this man was, powered by two meals a day and pure philosophy. Breakfast, noodles and egg.Dinner, rice and vegetables. Chicken cutlet rice was his treat yourself, moment. He said his expenses were 200 yen a month. Food is the only necessity.Bro was basically living on 2010 prices in 2025. And when the savings got low,did he panic? No. He simply went outside, worked a odd job for about one, to two months a year, then returned to his full-time horizontal mode. He even, got an actor’s license so that he can become a film extra. [screaming], Basically, getting paid to lie around on set in different poses. Since this land, has never truly fostered an ideology that elevates human subjectivity, I can.
create one for myself. Lying flat is my intellectual exercise. Only by lying, flat can one truly measure all things. Cats possess agency, but humans lack it.when will this alienated world end? According to him, rest, sleep, even, death are the ultimate objective truths. Bro somehow turned sleep into a TED, talk. And he said he’d spend hours lying at his window, watching people rushing, outside and sometimes hide somewhere just so he could laugh at all the hustle, bros speedwalking to jobs they hate. This is just his peak villain arc. And, his most famous line became a motto. Lying flat is the sick leave I took from, my desires. Tell me that isn’t the rawest bar you’ve ever heard in your, life. It’s pretty easy to just say they’re lazy and they just don’t want to, work. But you know, life is expensive, sleep is free. So, if you ever catch, yourself lying in bed at 2:00 p.m. scrolling, eating takeout, avoiding, sunlight like a vampire with student loans, you’re not failing. You’re just.
participating in a global cultural movement. It’s not that we don’t want to, work. It’s just that we want to work after a six-month nap. So yeah, maybe, the real Chinese dream was the naps we took along the.
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