A Real Life Big Lipped Alligator Moment, Flashmobbing consists of coordinating a large number of people to show up in a given place at a given time, usually to do something silly and then disperse. Coordination is done primarily with some form of mobile messaging and relies on a Friending Network to amass crowd size. Flashmobbing just for the sake of flashmobbing has become somewhat passé. It still finds some interesting applications in a real world-new media interaction games.
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| - A Real Life Big Lipped Alligator Moment, Flashmobbing consists of coordinating a large number of people to show up in a given place at a given time, usually to do something silly and then disperse. Coordination is done primarily with some form of mobile messaging and relies on a Friending Network to amass crowd size. Flashmobbing just for the sake of flashmobbing has become somewhat passé. It still finds some interesting applications in a real world-new media interaction games. The phenomenon was anticipated in Larry Niven's 1972 short story, "Flash Crowd", in which the spontaneous formation of huge mobs at the site of interesting events was the inevitable consequence of cheap, readily-accessible teleportation. Really, all it took was cheap, readily-accessible communications. The fact that there weren't massive hordes of spectators from the future at every major historical event has been used as an argument for the impossibility of backward time travel. Examples of Flashmob include:
* The Anonymous Anti-Scientology protests on the 10th of Feb could be considered a form of flashmobbing. Flashmobbing with a point.
* Combined with another internet phenomenon as hundreds of flashmobbers descended on a London railway station to sing Rick Astley's greatest hit.
* Mobile Clubbing: A bunch of people meet at some street corner with the walkmans and mp3 players, and start dancing each to their own music.
* Rob Manuel explains how he started a huge moonwalking flashmob... by accident.
* An example of a recent 'mobbing that was not so passé: zombies mob Vancouver!
* Flashmob plus Crowning Music of Awesome equals Food Court Hallelujah Chorus.
* The entire point of Improv Everywhere is to set these types of events up.
* One example involving drag and the Sydney Opera House.
* One variation of a flashmob involves everyone showing up and instead of bursting into song and dance... they don't do anything. Of course, after remaining frozen for a few minutes, everyone Un Pauses.
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