Somebody Made a Free 'Rawdog Flight Simulator' Video Sport

The viral TikTok journey development referred to as “rawdogging” was initially invented to keep away from digital stimulation. In stated development, an individual (often a man) will simply stare off into space for everything of their flight, abstaining from something that is perhaps construed as an exercise—be it watching a film, listening to a podcast, and even studying. At most, a rawdogger will entertain themselves with the flight tracker map. Some folks have referred to this as a form of “meditation.” Others have known as it “just plain stupid.” Properly, now, in a flip of occasions that’s inarguably silly, rawdogging goes digital. Someone determined to make a flight rawdogging simulator, the place you’ll be able to faux to stare off into house from the security of your personal lounge.

Rawdog Airlines is a free on-line recreation during which gamers board a flight, choose a seat, after which proceed to take a seat and stare into the center distance for so long as they’ll probably stand it. The sport claims to make use of “eye monitoring” know-how to make sure that you keep targeted in your laptop display and aren’t dishonest by diverting your gaze. Whenever you’re finished rawdogging, the sport information how lengthy you performed and, when you’re one of many high rawdoggers, your outcomes are printed to a public record on the sport’s web site. As of the writing of this weblog, it will seem that the participant referred to as “mew no final identify” is the reigning champ, with a recorded 18 hours and 40 minutes of gameplay. Holy shit.

Rawdogging lately turned widespread on TikTok, which is a breeding floor for droves of equally brain-dead “traits.” Many of those traits aren’t a lot real-world phenomena as stunts carried out by influencers to feed their follower counts. It’s unclear whether or not folks in the actual world really rawdog flights with any statistically vital regularity.

So far as I can inform, rawdogging was really pioneered not by attention-seeking Gen-Z goofballs, however by Seinfeld which, in 1997, aired the episode “The Butter Shave,” during which Elaine’s on-again, off-again boyfriend, David Puddy, infuriates her by refusing to learn, nap, or in any other case do something besides stare straight forward in a brain-dead form of fugue state:

We salute you, Puddy. You had been an actual rawdogger—possibly the one one.