Why do foreigners on TikTok sometimes rise to "lie flat"?

Da Bai, a Canadian foreign teacher in Chongqing, taught everyone how to express "lie flat" in English in Xiao Hong Shu five days ago.
One is called "coasting", which roughly means that you have saved enough money and don't want to do anything but go back to your hometown to enjoy life;
One is called "to slip off", which is a contented lying down style without pursuing too much material return.
Such people can also be called "slacker";
The other is "I just don't give a fxxk any more".
Da Bai, who has lived in China for a long time, did not know that in his hometown, migrant workers have created their own "lie flat": quiet quitting.
The literal translation of this word is "quiet resignation", and some people also translate it into "on-the-job resignation" or "silent resignation".
Although the literal meaning means resignation, it does not mean that the person who said this really intends to give up his work completely, but gives up the idea of transcending himself in work.
Generally speaking, today's migrant workers are also unable to move.
This anti roll trend in foreign countries originated from TikTok at first, and was gradually carried forward by netizens and punters, and finally became a widely discussed social phenomenon.
This video was originally sent by a user with ID @ zaidleppelin on TikTok.
In this 17 second video released on July 26 this year, Zaidleppelin edited a daily video and said with a soothing music: I recently heard a word called "quiet quiet", (meaning) you are not going to leave your job, but you have given up the idea of going further in your work.
You will still perform your duties at work, but you no longer recognize the inner culture of work.
The reality is that work is not your life, and your value is not defined by your output in work.
This video has been watched more than 3.5 million times by the time of publishing.
Zaidleppelin himself is a musician.
Although he is not a real part-time worker, he just released a new song of his own on August 26, but this does not seem to prevent "quiet quiet" from becoming an Internet buzzword in the English circle.
After the video was released, the foreign subcultural media Daily Dot first captured this new word and related it to the current work situation of young Americans.
So soon, more and more TikToker began to release short videos related to "quiet quiet".
Zaidleppelin himself came out one day later and responded in an unbelievable tone, "This is the first time that I have been reported publicly.
I'm very happy that you will watch my videos...
However, I never said that I quiet quiet my work." At the beginning, "quiet quiet" was only discussed on a small scale on TikTok, Until a TiKTok ID is