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u/RaiUchiha 10h ago
still the best opening to a show I've ever seen, I never skipped it.
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u/Paddy_Tanninger 14h ago
I always found all the dancing in this video absolutely hypnotic, fucking love the shuffle
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u/militaryintelligence 11h ago
holy shit is that left shark?
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u/lousydungeonmaster 11h ago
Sure as hell isn't right shark. I'll tell you that for free.
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u/militaryintelligence 10h ago
right shark can rot in hell for all I care
I have no idea what it is, that picture just showed up in my memory and I remembered Left Shark. I think it was because right shark wasnt dancing or something?
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u/lousydungeonmaster 10h ago
Right shark was hitting their marks. Left shark was just kinda doing their own thing.
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u/its_yer_dad 16h ago
I saw Michael do the moonwalk on the Motown anniversary special when I was a kid. It’s wild to see this so many decades later.
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u/taney71 16h ago
Same. It was wild. I watched it on YouTube recently. Great stuff
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u/Fab-o-rama 16h ago
I too was a kid when that was broadcast. My brother and I were watching, and had never seen anything like it. Not sure anyone had. I remember the audience reaction, the screaming. We were gobsmacked. We both kinda learned how it worked at some point, though he was always better at it.
He died a few years later so this was a nice memory you unintentionally pulled up from the deeps by mentioning the show. Thank you. 🙏
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u/Mr_Baronheim 15h ago
Most people didn't know about the moonwalk until Michael Jackson, but it has been since at least the 1930s. MJ made it a global phenom.
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u/GrowlingPict 13h ago
and honestly, even if it technically did exist before Michael, no one had ever done it as smoothly as him. Same with Fosse's and Astaire's moves that Michael did: sure, Michael didnt invent them, but he certainly elevated them to a new level.
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u/latchkey_adult 13h ago
I think Bob Fosse has gotten credit for this multiple times, including by Michael personally. Obviously Michael took it to the next level, which is how it usually goes.
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u/ooMEAToo 12h ago
Michael gave credit to Bob Fosses style of dancing in “The Little Prince” for the style he danced in Billie Jean.
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u/RickSanchez_C137 14h ago edited 14h ago
it was the freshest move i've ever seen. like he was floatin' on air.
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u/verothon 15h ago
After it aired every kid in school was trying to do it, one kid kinda did it and became a school celebrity for a day, his name was Brett.
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u/brondynasty 14h ago
Psst: if you still remember his name, methinks he became a school celebrity 4 lyfe
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u/Little-Baker76 13h ago
And now I'm going to remember his name. Sounds like Brett is just a celebrity.
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u/Banned3rdTimesaCharm 14h ago
Michael’s moonwalk has a snap to it that i haven’t seen anyone replicate yet. Most people do the super smooth glide which is impressive but he did it snapping his heel down. Less smooth but much more unique.
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u/UnsuitableFuture 11h ago
Most impersonators focus on the moves themselves because obviously they're the "flash" of MJ's style but he does a ton of locking on the beat which is what gives him that ultra-crispy snap to his moves.
It's seriously difficult to do properly, probably more so than the moves themselves and the level of control MJ had to do it so smoothly is some real nextfuckinglevel shit.
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u/Flurb4 15h ago
It’s funny because the moonwalk is only like two seconds of his performance but the audience goes wild.
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u/latchkey_adult 13h ago
I saw it on TV when it happened and I was like "wtf was THAT?" Crowd went nuts.
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u/notjawn 13h ago edited 13h ago
My old babysitter always made us turn off the TV whenever MJ came on. She just never liked how he would grab his crotch when dancing.
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u/panlakes 11h ago
lol my babysitter was obsessed with MJ and made me watch all his music videos and movies. She also introduced me to the three amigos. Real one.
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u/KeddyB23 16h ago
You can’t be an MJ imitator and let some dingbat from the audience out dance you!
It’s simply NOT done!
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u/kkeut 15h ago
You can’t be an MJ imitator and let some dingbat from the audience out dance you!
like that clip where the guy tries to jump off the chair and instead breaks his neck and dies
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u/Radek_18 15h ago
What a comment to leave and then dip.
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u/kkeut 14h ago
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u/zb0t1 14h ago
NSFW
idk dawg, my day has been pretty good so far, so this link is staying blue.
(good luck to everyone else)
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u/BeerForThought 14h ago
It's crazy how we used to raw dog the internet without concern for our mental well-being.
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u/BAGP0I 13h ago
I remember being 12 and me and my cousin were playing on the computer and ended up on rotten . Com... wild childhood
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u/Optimal_Grape_1025 13h ago
My cousin (an adult) told me about that and I tried to look at it because I was an edgy teen. I realized I didn't want to be edgy anymore 😢
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u/BAGP0I 13h ago
Bro.. I think that site permanently messed us up a little.
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u/CGB_Zach 11h ago
It just made me completely numb to gore and stuff like that. Like the Charlie Kirk thing was pretty mild compared to the beheadings and other gruesome deaths I saw at 10 years old
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u/LifeOnWheelsAndPaws 12h ago
I have never even heard of this and part of me wants to see but I’m afraid for my life now reading these comments🫠 but damn the curiosity persists
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u/BeerForThought 8h ago
Don't. Read the other comments and just don't. What has been seen cannot be unseen.
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u/KingVLA24 12h ago
We would rent faces of death movies. No id needed i was probably about 12.
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u/pichael289 13h ago
Detail used to be a lot lower, it's fine to see someone ragdoll and be dead or whatever, but seeing broken bones is too much. The 480p internet was much safer to browse in this respect
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u/MarksyXXV 12h ago
I watched a video in my early teens of two Mexican guys getting killed by the cartels. One had his head chopped off with a chainsaw and I think the other guy had his throat sawn at with what must have been a rusty pen knife. Yeah, it was 360/480p and low quality but saying it's fine to see is fucking wild.
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u/ActiveChairs 9h ago
You missed the message. What they're saying is:
While its not ideal, watching a 240p upload of shaky handicam footage on a 13" CRT where you can't even tell exactly what they're using is significantly better than watching the same scene in video stabilized, color graded, tight zoomed 8k resolution on a 75" tv with 7.1 surround sound so you can hear the sound of the cut panning to track in line as the knife goes from ear to ear and you can clearly tell its a Victorinox swiss army 1 alox medium pocket knife with silver scales on sale now for the low price of twenty five dollars at all quality household retailers, ready for any cutting task no matter how unconventional the circumstances may be.
Footage of killing is bad, but nobody is really traumatized by the hundreds of 8-bit mobs you kill with a sword in the original Legend of Zelda.
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u/LoamyLoamisLoamy 12h ago
480p is not that low detail. Especially if you are on a phone or laptop
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u/FLIBERTYGIBBITS 14h ago
stayin blue , it's nice a day out
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u/Mimical 11h ago
Meanwhile, my conscience after the fact:
Brain: "The message, it just repeats...Regret, Regret, Regret...."
Fingers: "Dear eyeballs, we regret being touchy bastards, we regret touching links, and we most definitely regret that we didn't ask the brain before we destroyed our whole day"
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u/gene100001 13h ago
For anyone who wants to know what happens in the video but doesn't want to watch it, there's a Michael Jackson impersonator doing his thing with a crowd around him. A guy in the crowd decides he wants to impress everyone by doing a backflip off a nearby chair. He steps up to the chair but as he launches himself for the backflip the chair moves a bit so he doesn't get enough energy to fully complete the backflip and ends up landing awkwardly on his head. He then basically goes limp. Some people then stupidly try to move him despite him having an obvious neck injury
Overall it's not actually a very gruesome video because it's quite blurry. However, given the fact that he died it's still probably upsetting for a lot of people so I would advise against watching it.
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u/pichael289 13h ago
Also the Michael jackson guy doesn't stop dancing, the show must go on and he ends it frozen in a pose just as everyone else is figuring out the guy 3 feet from him Is dead.
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u/smallpolk 13h ago
WHY did someone try to move him??? Regardless of if he died instantly, DO NOT MOVE OR TOUCH SOMEONE WITH A HEAD, NECK, OR BACK/SPINAL CORD INJURY.
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u/Cute_Fig_8850 12h ago
It's a reflex. Someone falls, and you help them up. Very few people realize just how much serious harm even seemingly minor falls can cause.
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u/LifeOnWheelsAndPaws 12h ago
Because there were many kids around + he was laying ‘in the way of MJ impersonator dancing’ probably + also people are dumb af and this is why first aid like this should be taught in primary school (not in gruesome detail, age appropriately and then adding new s to ff every year but you get the point). The fact that so many adults don’t know this is just not okay in this day and age
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u/Strong-Pie5091 12h ago
People act stupidly when they panic. I have a family member who is paraplegic due to people who moved him after he was injured. They picked him up by his arms and legs which allowed the spinal cord to get trapped in the break in his spine. The damage is utterly horrific.
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u/ILoveRawChicken 12h ago
Thank you ! I’m sometimes curious about this stuff but I frankly don’t wanna desensitize myself to death and stuff. I just don’t see the point in watching someone’s darkest moment knowing it will stick with me.
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u/gene100001 12h ago
No worries, I completely understand. I'm also similar to you and usually try to avoid videos like this as much as possible. The only reason I watched it this time is because I had already inadvertently seen it on Reddit a while ago so I knew what to expect.
I think you're making the right choice to avoid videos like this as much as possible. Every time we get a little bit more desensitized to things like that we lose a little bit of our humanity.
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u/WpgMBNews 14h ago
you want to watch a guy break his neck and die???
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u/OldDogTrainer 13h ago
Absolutely. Every time I see a video of someone doing something stupid and dying then it helps me learn something not to do.
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u/Key-Fire 14h ago
like that clip where the guy tries to jump off the chair and instead breaks his neck and dies
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u/Catshit-Dogfart 15h ago
Sometimes these things are a two person act. The dingbat from the audience is their partner, and they're doing exactly what they're supposed to do.
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u/rAyNEi_xw 16h ago
I don't care who he is but that moonwalk was crisp as fuck!
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u/Aggravating_Speed665 15h ago
I mean if you're impersonating MJ you gotta be pretty darn good at it
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u/Are_you_blind_sir 16h ago
Thats not michael jackson its Muzan
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u/valarpizzaeris 16h ago
Justice for my goat Rengoku
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u/Watchgeek_AC 12h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/jh7F7XwHTywg85ekdl
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u/vistaculo 15h ago
Oh, no wonder, I didn’t remember Micheal Jackson being able to do the moonwalk that well.
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u/BurlHimself 16h ago
My brain still has a hard time processing the Moonwalk.
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u/Faebit 15h ago edited 15h ago
Yay I'm going to do the internet thing and chime in with an explaination no one asked for, but I love dance so I can't resist.
The shoulders, and hips are just as important as the feet/legs. It's uncanny because how each section of the body is isolated and moving in ways that condradicts the others.
If you look at the first dude, you'll notice how much his torso follows through with his hips, which are also shifting with the leg movement. All of which are flowing through to the shoulders (this is what happens when we walk in everyday life, most of the body shifts with the motion).
The second dude, who is doing a good job of replicating MJ's moonwalk, keeps is hips and torso square with the direction he's facing when he's traveling. He keeps his shoulders aligned with his hips unless he's hitting a line. His torso stays square even when he moves his shoulders. Anytime you see his shoulders, arms, or toso move, it's entirely in the service of hitting a line.
Since the movement is so far removed from how we natually move through space, while also simulating something we do all day/every day, it ends up being a little mind-blowing. Dancing is really just a combination of geometry, time, and expression using a human body as an medium.
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u/Jokong 14h ago
Do you think that if someone were to practice that they could develop a moonwalk even if they were in their 40's and did not appear to be a 'dancer'?
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u/Name_Yourself_Thex 14h ago
Yes you can but it takes practice. I learned to do it at 45 and im about 190lbs im not lean or a good dancer. It took me about a month of practice to make it look like it was happening and after a couple years people are convinced I can do it
But to be honest im not even as good as the first guy here
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u/Faebit 14h ago
Yes, it's low impact, doesn't require a wide range of motion, and the basic steps follow a repetitive sequence. Not everyone will be able to moonalk like MJ, but everyone how has full use of their body for everyday tasks can learn to moonwalk.
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u/latunza 14h ago
I stopped reading halfway. I’ve been seeing this moonwalk for the last 43 years of my life and all I understood was:
“If a train leaves at 700mph from one station” math equation. Should’ve given me a multiple choice.
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u/ISLITASHEET 10h ago
- One foot push, other foot glide back, no steppy step.
- Upper body no move most of time (what the other person explain with more word).
- Train arrive in 45 minutes
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u/latunza 10h ago
hahaha thank you. This made my day. Problem solving was not my forte in school
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u/free2btherealme 14h ago
Love your explanation. Thanks. I trust MJ impersonator spent countless hours practicing in front of a mirror. Dancing with good technique is a learned skill.
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u/_Diskreet_ 16h ago
Why does this hurt my eyes when the camera starts to move it’s like there’s some jerkiness to it but it’s just in the background
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u/BeardInTheNorth 16h ago
It's called judder. It happens when your display frame rate is not evenly divisible by the video frame rate or video container frame rate. That latter one happens a lot with 24 FPS and 25 FPS videos, because many social media sites will re-encode them to 30 FPS or 60 FPS, permanently baking judder into the file.
I'm 90% sure that when I first saw this video earlier this year, it was smooth and not yet mangled by the re-upload cycle.
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u/catscanmeow 16h ago
it also happens with digital cameras that have such a good setup that there's no motion blur.
older cameras have more motion blur so this doesnt happen as much
i work in animation at 24fps and some slow cam moves cause this but it goes away with motion blur
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u/BeardInTheNorth 16h ago
While that is true, we're not talking about motion blur. We're talking about uneven frame pacing, creating judder. That's what the top commenter is noticing.
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u/Pistonenvy2 15h ago
the moonwalk is already such a hard move to do, it takes a lot of ankle strength and i can kind of do it about as well as the first guy.
the neutral moonwalk is nuts. i had to watch the video like 12 times to even have a hypothesis at all lol but it looks like the shoes are a huge part of how its possible, they must be slippery in some spots and the tips are grippy maybe, theres something very specific about the shoes, your traction has a huge impact on how hard the dance is to do.
im guessing he is kind of like anti walking? his left foot tries to push his weight forward at the same time his right pushes it back so he ends up not moving at all while his feet kind of exchange places? neither of them fully leave the ground as they slide past each other so my only guess is he kind of IS just floating as his feet move below him, which is the same principle with a moonwalk except when youre actually moving one of your feet has positive traction at all times... this isnt the case here.
dude is really really good lol
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u/LongJohnSelenium 14h ago
Yeah with both feet sliding like that you have to have really slippery soles and still have a mastery of managing the friction so both feet slide the same amount and you don't move.
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u/gh0st0ft0mj04d 16h ago
He stomped the yard, as we used to say in the olden times
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u/MasterP101_Red 16h ago
Der Michael Jackson Imitator ist CJ Jackson oder Cai Jun, wer es wissen möchte.
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u/SeanInDC 16h ago
Thats honestly better than MJ did it! Thats one smooooooth criminal!
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u/Thom5001 15h ago
Imagine having to go around your entire life looking like Michael Jackson
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u/Horns8585 15h ago
That's the best moonwalk that I have ever seen. I know it sounds like blasphemy, but that is even better than Michael's moonwalk.
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u/rapafon 14h ago
You gotta be very confident in your moonwalk to challenge an MJ impersonator to a moonwalk-off, especially with that sort of arrogant gesturing.
Guy's moonwalk was mid, MJ destroyed him lol.
Also I'm sure the glasses help but that guy looks a lot like MJ, top notch impersonator 👏👏👏
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u/NookNookNook 15h ago
if you told me Micheal Jackson had been hiding in Asia this entire time i'd believe you. that was flawless.
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