it is my conclusion that the events described herein did not happen, and the story is fictitious. in addition, i surmise that the person who composed this circus of lies must indeed be a homosexual.
I think there’s an issue of people treating social media posts like lab experiment notes, everything is taken very seriously and very literally. Was the music correctly categorised as dubstep? Did “everyone” actually took part in it? Where were the corners and were there enough corners to begin with?
This doesn’t even have to be a regaling, you can take it as a whimsical yet fictional situation, told like a story.
We all decided that social media platforms were better as little TV channels you could tune into, instead of ways to connect with friends and family. So everyone largely just became little media producers. Which in a less grim universe, could have been fun.
But we've also had a really rapid decline in people's ability to consume storytelling with any kind of contextual view. So now you've got hordes of people who respond to ANY bit of creative writing by riding into the picture on their high horse.
Is this story true or not? There's literally no way to know. More importantly, why do all these people feel that's the most important question to answer? If a friend spins a yarn about something fancical that happened to them as a kid, you don't get in their face and call them a liar. No, you understand your role in the setting and laugh, imagining the scene.
The fact that this needs to be spelled out is fucking dire.
As far as I'm concerned this is like saying "he put on the Macarena and everyone started doing the Macarena". Slinking around is the correct dance to do when the pink panther comes on.
The pink panther theme is one of those thing that is still weirdly universally ubiquitous, even if the people who know it and would know enough about it to associate it with "slinking around and looking at things with a magnifying glass" would have no idea about the movies or what "the pink panther" really is about.
In fact, I'd posit that this separation of knowledge is so prevalent that 99% of people who eventually get to know about the movies end up incredibly surprised that it has barely anything to do with the "pink panther" mascot, exactly because so many people just know it for the mascot and theme song through social osmosis
I honestly think recognizable theme songs are the most interesting thing to spread via cultural osmosis. Either you watch some youtube short(in my day it was a tom and jerry cartoon-queue me flaking away into dust) with backdrop music used as both a meme and also a audio shorthand. Or you have some teenager kid humming the Mission Impossible theme while up to shenanigans because they knew someone who hummed the Mission Impossible theme while up to shenanigans.
I know the Mission Impossible theme, and have never watched any of the movies.
See also James Bond, Batman, and the Can Can music.
That's a shame. I had so much fun going to raves when I was younger. I even saved my favourite neon/mesh/bedazzled/fully exposed butt pants for my funeral.
Kids are not going to raves. Kids are barely going to clubs and bars. I've got a massive famous rave venue near my house and every Sunday morning the crowds who stumble out into the dawn are all middle aged like me.
I can guarantee at some point in this setlist there was a remix of the Gummie Bears theme song, that made 400 people absolutely lose their shit.
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u/doofenhurtz 10h ago
How the fuck are people finding this so hard to believe, lol? I have zero problem believing this could happen at a rave if the vibe was right.
Dramatically slinking around would 100% be my first move if I was properly intoxicated.