Harlem Shake as Protest Tool

by **Funkyterrance** on Sat Mar 02, 2013 2:55 am

xeno wrote:
Funkyterrance wrote:
xeno wrote:
Funkyterrance wrote:It looks like fun to me, I think I'll test it at the singles bar this weekend.

If you wanna stay single go for it

Who said I was single?

I just assume in rl everyone resembles their avatar. In reality I'm a preying mantis that loves keyboards

I look exactly like my avatar.

by **laughingcavalier** on Sat Mar 02, 2013 4:12 am

AndyDufresne wrote:I'll admit, I don't know much about this Harlem Shake, since I get all my viral sensations and memes from Futurama and this Off Topics forum, but the NY Times Lede Blog had an interesting post about it all: http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/0 ... and-egypt/

And it just seemed like this is something that should live for a little while in our Off Topics.

--Andy

Oh I hate being late to the party.
There is a long history of dance as protest and of the state suppressing people's freedom to dance.
For a UK take see
http://history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.co.uk/

by **BigBallinStalin** on Sun Mar 03, 2013 10:38 pm

Army of GOD wrote:There was a Harlem Shuffle dance (circa 1970 or so) then a Harlem Shake (1990sish). The new videos are called "Harlem Shake" videos because the song that plays (came out in 2012) during them is called the Harlem Shake but none of these videos ever include the actual dance the Harlem Shake.

The first one or two were somewhat entertaining but this has just been taken too far and everyone should just fucking drop it. Everyone thinks they're special enough (including but not limited to sports teams, universities, businesses, etc.) to make their own video but all they're doing is trivializing everyone's.

Seriously, I want to show up to a Harlem shake video recording and just beat everyone up. It's infuriating.

Fascist.