The viral TikTok travel trend known asrawdoggingwas originally invented to avoid digital stimulation.

At most, a rawdogger will entertain themselves with the flight tracker map.

Some people have referred to this asa form of meditation.Others have called it just plain stupid.

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Well, now, in a turn of events that is inarguably stupid, rawdogging is going digital.

Many of these trends arent so much real-world phenomena as stunts performed by influencers to feed their follower counts.

Its unclear whether people in the real world actually rawdog flights with any statistically significant regularity.

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You were a real rawdoggermaybe the only one.

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