A new trend on TikTok right now is “Bed Rotting,” a term that is gaining popularity among young people. The term describes spending all day in bed of one’s own volition, and people on TikTok are posting videos of themselves in bed with the hashtag “#bedrot” as they scroll through social media or eat on their beds.

“This sounds like a bit of a backlash against the health, wellness, and self-care trends we hear about all the time. It suggests that people are a little fed up with clean living.”

So advocates psychologist Audrey Tan. In recent years, our daily lives have been awash with self-care practices that promote health and enhance productivity. Young people who have grown tired of such “optimization” in their lives are slowing down, listening to their bodies, and choosing to stay lazy in bed and rest in pursuit of “counter-productivity”.

According to psychologist Robert Common, this trend is seen as a way for young people to cope with stress and anxiety” They are said to be more stressed than other generations, so getting away from it all in bed and refreshing their moods is an important opportunity for them.

The folks at TikTok are transmitting Bed Rotting as a new self-care approach. They are connecting with the world from their beds. In this newsletter, we will highlight examples of unique ways to connect with the world, like Bed Rotting.

“Study with me,” or “gongbang (study broadcast)” in Korean, and other video creators around the world have distributed or uploaded uncut clips of themselves working silently, and Some videos are edited to include environmental sounds and lo-fi music. The videos can last several hours and have hundreds of thousands of views. Many have commented that this trend reduces the loneliness of studying alone, creates a sense of camaraderie, and actually allows them to concentrate better than if they were working alone. This is a new trend in online learning that bears watching.

About two years ago, the concept of “tang ping” (lying in bed), in which people do not work too hard, are satisfied with a certain level of achievement, and have time to relax, became a movement in China. It all started when a man posted a photo of himself lying on his bed on a social networking service and the accompanying text, “Tamping is justice. The background of this movement is the increasing social pressure on young people in the midst of the one-child policy and an aging society.

In 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono distributed a honeymoon video of the two of them relaxing in bed. As the Vietnam War raged, this video, called “Bed In,” attracted a great deal of attention as a protest against the war.