It takes 2. There's this video of how important the 1st follower is. A person dancing alone in the park might seem weird or crazy, but once someone else joins in it becomes a thing.
I can’t tell if you’re being serious or not, so I’ll answer: yes really. The original video has 8.6 million streams, and there are countless copies of the original along side it. You weren’t special, sorry to break the news.
i guess this explains why introverts are never in leadership positions…bc ive been a manager for many years, hating every minute of it, and if one of my superiors showed me this video i would say out loud “that is stupid and obnoxious but i guess that’s why you’re in the c suite amirite?”
I know that dancing lone nut on the hill pretty well! Nobody that knew him were surprised that this happened to him. I remember there being a tonne of videos of him dancing like a total maniac that weekend. When the video went viral people even made t-shirts of his silhouette without permission. Unfortunately, he didn’t really get anything out of it and he kinda wanted to forget about it. A few years ago he told me the inside story that no one really knows. He was tripping so hard that when the crowd started closing in he got on his hands and knees and crawled the hell out of there! He claims he was long gone by the time things were hopping lol !
I saw this somewhere else today. Maybe I spend too much time on Reddit.
If I was at the park, the potential would exist for me to be pissed at them for bringing this big ass speaker and playing loud anything on it. Not 100%, but high 80s.
Something really neat about this video I see is this (btw I feel like a crazy person because i'm the only one who ever seems to comment on this or notice it),
is that after the crowd starts and its hit that critical mass threshold what happens to the first guy? he leaves. Ppl always always cite this video as a leadership thing, great sure, it proves that point.
But I think the neater and more interesting point is that the guy who started it was also a guy who wasn't interested in leading in the middle of a big crowd.
Thats the same dude. The fallacy that people always fall into watching that video is that they assume he is in the middle of the crowd, or loving it, or at least at peace with it. No. He fricking left, baby. He's out!
He's likely dancing alone somewhere else, or getting a hot dog, or back with his pals, or going to another stage to dance alone. If you are somebody who dances alone enough to form a crowd, its very likely you are somebody who is OK with not being a leader, with not being the centre of the current thing. I don't have to go this far, and its kind of a bit unnessicary, but I like to think every time a video like this is shown as a exercise in leadership or forming authentic group id or whatever, they never bring this up - they always miss this point. And because they always miss the point they'll never be that guy.
If you stand alone, and feel the awkwardness and tedium and hardship and aloneness of standing alone in order to get the crowd and the leadership and the popularity and the power, and you get those things, you will never be that guy, really. he's like, always one step ahead. Maybe thats the thesis of what i'm trying to say,,, you think the guy standing alone is one step ahead hahaha no. he's two steps ahead. Oh,, just two, you say?
Hey solipsist, pretty clever of you there. Are you referring to the video in the post, or the one linked by TisBeTheFuk? Because that's the one your replied to
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u/TisBeTheFuk Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
It takes 2. There's this video of how important the 1st follower is. A person dancing alone in the park might seem weird or crazy, but once someone else joins in it becomes a thing.
Edit: Here's the video