There was a period of time when it was quite popular among Buddhist monks,
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311908.2019.1678556
In 2022 somebody did it to
protest climate change. Wynn Bruce, 50,
climate change activist and Buddhist,
on Earth Day
I would argue with the ‘quite popular’. How many have done this?
I’ll admit its a thing, but its having a real hard time catching on.