Sasquatch music festival 2009 - Guy starts dance party
Why Hacker News recommends it
Used as the classic example of a lone first follower turning one person's action into a movement, in threads about bystanders and group behavior.
What it is
Amateur footage from the 2009 Sasquatch music festival in which one person starts dancing alone and a crowd gradually joins in, turning it into a dance party.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2009 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Recommends anonymousDan · 2019-07 · on “A new study uses camera footage to track the frequency of bystander intervention”
I think the most amazing/hilarious example I've seen of one person starting something by making the first move is this video: [this video] :)
Cites pkrumins · 2009-09 · on “”
Seems staged to me. It seems unnatural how those 4 people started dancing at exactly the same time at the first wave. Ps. This is similar to an event where a guy started a dance party [this video]
Cites pkrumins · 2009-09 · on “”
Seems staged to me. It seems unnatural how those 4 people started dancing at exactly the same time and at the same beat at the first wave. Ps. This is similar to an event where a guy started a dance party [this video] Damn it: I don't understand why this submission went [dead] two times.
Cites wizardforhire · 2022-11 · on “Undetectable very-low frequency sound increases dancing at a live concert”
I can confirm this. It’s also nice to see a new paper on this. I’ve been using this knowledge professionally for the last 24 years as a front of house engineer. Anecdotal story time: You’ve may have seen this video, or some variation of or maybe even the TED talk inspired by it… [this video] …what few people know and most don’t because I have not shared this publicly (in media at least) is that I was mixing this show. We we’re on in the middle of the day and a few bands had been on before us. By this point in my career I had already been to the gorge several times and the hill has always been a problem. On this particular day during the already frantic pace of a festival changeover with no sound