There’s a brand new rawdogging trend people are doing that’s taking over the internet

Ladies and gentlemen, rawdogging is back.

For those of you out there who are currently scratching their heads and looking a bit confused, rawdogging (no, not in that way) became very fashionable last summer when people were posting videos of themselves doing nothing for the entire duration of a flight.

Not even long-haul flights were safe from this trend, with psychologists even weighing in to explain what happens to your brain after spending several hours detoxing your brain while cruising at 30,000 feet.

The craze even sparked spin-off trends such as 'barebacking', which involved people swerving listening to music or scrolling their phones while on public transport.

And now, rawdogging is back once again, as people challenge themselves to spend extended periods of time at home doing absolutely nothing.

Also known as 'boredom' to you and I, but hey, sitting around doing nothing isn't trendy unless it has a fun hashtag.

The trend appears to trace back to a productivity influencer by the name of Rowan, who's spent the past month sharing a 30-second timelapse of himself sat doing nothing for an hour while a timer ticks down on his laptop.

He explained that he'd been motivated to take an hour out of his day and unplugging after noticing that his attention span had shortened, blaming it on 'constant dopamine hits from my phone, caffeine, sugary foods and games'.

The trend has since taken off, with more and more young people sharing their rawdogging journeys - which has also been repackaged as 'resistance training for the brain' - online.

Rowan has since finished his rawdogging journey, concluding that spending an extended period of time doing nothing was beneficial for him, although it perhaps didn't need to be as long as an hour, concluding: "I’ve definitely improved my attention span and concentration... I think I’m going to continue doing this daily (off camera)."

"Ngl this is impressive and that’s sad for us as a generation," wrote one person under one of Rowan's videos, while a second joked: "Meanwhile, I’m struggling to watch to the end of the vid."

However not everyone is convinced by the trend, with several people pointing out that Gen Z have basically discovered the centuries-old practice of meditation and turned it into an easily digestible trend for people to watch while spending the day scrolling on their phones.

Debates over the trend aside, a psychologist has since weighed in on the importance of spending time detoxing from phones and allowing yourself to be bored.

“Learning how to tolerate boredom is an important skill,” Stacey Rosenfeld, PhD, explained to the New York Post.

"There are always going to be times when we’re bored. If we never allow ourselves to have that feeling of wondering ‘What should I do with this time,’ how will we do that as adults?"