Macbook hinge tightened suddenly

After merely a week since my macbook air M2(2022) purchase, the hinge of the laptop lid has tightened up all of a sudden. All these days I was able to open the lid with just the help of one finger. But now since yesterday when I try to do the same, the whole laptop lifts off the table. The entire hinge has become very significantly tighter (to a point where it feels uncomfortable in a very un-macbooky way). I cannot recollect doing anything different in the past few days that could have led to something like this (such as dropping the laptop or spilling liquids).

I have tried flapping the lid very rapidly a couple of times to "loosen" it up. This made it work like before but only temporarily for sometime before it hardens up again.

Could this be due to any sort of "dust" getting inside the hinge? Or are the screws just randomly tightening up? Please let me know if there's something I could do, or if I must just hand it over to Apple Care. Thanks!

PS : There no Apple store available in my area. Only Apple authorised stores.

Original question courtesy : @dpk38