For most travelers, a long flight means browsing on-demand movies, binge-watching Netflix on your phone, or just listening to podcasts.
Not so for “raw dogs”.
A new TikTok trend shows plane passengers bragging about how they lasted an entire flight without any form of entertainment or distraction: no phones, no TV, no books, no music. Some even give up free snacks.
“Just endured a 7 hour flight (new personal record),” a British DJ named Wudini announced in a video posted on June 4 that now has more than 13 million views. “No headphones, no film, no water, nothing.”
A number of other TikTokers have documented their inactivity flights over the past few months. “My beige flag is that I chase dog flights,” Veronica Skaia wrote in January. “No headphones. There are no movies. For hours I just stare into the abyss and watch the little GPS plane.”
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Australian musician Torren Foot also got in on the trend, writing on Tuesday, June 25, “I just stuck it out, 15 hour flight to Melbourne, no music, no movies, just the flight ticket (counted to 1 million twice). ”
A TikTok user named Michelle took to the social media platform to comment on how few of her fellow passengers looked at anything but the flight map during the five-hour journey from New York to San Francisco.
“I have never seen so many people flying carefree in my life,” she wrote. “You literally just look straight ahead the whole time?”
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Another West-bound TikToker shared in May that he “successfully completed” a seven-hour flight by only looking at flight maps.
“Anyone else flying without a saddle?” he wondered in the accompanying caption, seemingly introducing some new borrowed lingo to the movement.
“I got a DM on Instagram like, ‘Bro, you gotta teach us how to fly bareback,'” West said GQ.
“I’m sick of watching the same movies,” he added, likening the quiet flying style to meditation. “You are visually impaired a little. You can only look at the seat in front of you, right or left if you are at the window. All you hear is the sound of the engine drumming. It’s just white noise.”
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The trend has prompted some social media users to recall a memorable TV character who embraced jet lag early on: David Puddy, Elaine Benes’ beau on Seinfeld.
In the Season 9 episode “The Butter Shave,” Puddy (Patrick Warburton) annoyed Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) by refusing her offer to read while flying home from a European vacation, choosing instead to simply stare straight ahead.
“Respectfully, you are not ‘rawdogging’ if you are looking at a flight map,” read one post on X (formerly Twitter). “Puddy was staring at the back of the seat in front of him. man.”
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