There’s a kind of inverse tipping point that has happened with these flash mobs now. Apart from the participatory experience, it seems to me that the whole idea of them is to surprise and bewilder the non-participants around you – the audience. In those Beat It ones almost everyone in the square knows what is going to happen because they’re also doing it. I can’t help feeling it loses some of what makes it worth doing in the first place,
There’s a kind of inverse tipping point that has happened with these flash mobs now. Apart from the participatory experience, it seems to me that the whole idea of them is to surprise and bewilder the non-participants around you – the audience. In those Beat It ones almost everyone in the square knows what is going to happen because they’re also doing it. I can’t help feeling it loses some of what makes it worth doing in the first place,