Quiet wallets, hidden rooms: Meet the Chinese youth who are rewriting hopes for a robust consumer-fueled economy as they doomscroll their days away One self-defined member of the "rat people" ...

In response to slow economic growth in the last few years, some young people in China have taken to social media to become a so-called “rat person.” Over 1 billion people have watched videos on ...

A new demographic label has swept through China’s social-media feeds in recent months: “rat people.” The term, which describes young adults who retreat into small rooms, avoid socializing and spend ...