{"id":153264,"date":"2026-06-20T22:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T22:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153264"},"modified":"2026-06-20T22:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T22:00:15","slug":"how-lying-flat-went-from-a-niche-subculture-to-mainstream-phenomenon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153264","title":{"rendered":"How \u2018lying flat\u2019 went from a niche subculture to mainstream phenomenon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn late April, China\u2019s top intelligence agency claimed that foreign forces were weaponising the concept of \u201clying flat\u201d to dispel young people\u2019s \u201cbelief in striving\u201d and undermine social values.<br \/>\nOnce a niche subculture, \u201clying flat\u201d has evolved into a mainstream phenomenon over the past five years.<br \/>\n\u201cLying flat\u201d became a buzzword on Chinese social media around 2021 during the coronavirus pandemic. At the time, the phrase was usually applied to people who had completely dropped out of the rat&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3357771\/how-lying-flat-went-niche-subculture-mainstream-phenomenon?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn late April, China\u2019s top intelligence agency claimed that foreign forces were weaponising the concept of \u201clying flat\u201d to dispel young people\u2019s \u201cbelief in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153264"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}