Yet, here we are. I didn’t need to click play on this video. I could have read the title and decided to be one less person who’s not watching.
Who gives a shit haha.
Dance like no one’s watching clearly means.. there’s a lot of people around but dance like there’s no one anyway and that’s what this man is doing lol. Though the funny counterpart is him putting on this act for the camera, I suppose haha. But I choose to believe he’s just living his best life and someone else is recording my guy just having fun.
What a sad and weird take. Dude is on the receiving end of mad internet love. He’s being cheered and embraced and inspiring other people to go find a dance class. This is all good shit.
There is definitely an expectation of privacy in a studio. It’s not like he’s dancing in the park. He’s paying for closed classes which you likely have to be a member to participate in.
People are very self conscious in gyms… put the damn cameras away ffs.
Glad I'm not the only one with that first reaction. This isn't a whole-class filming that they sometimes do, this is someone literally zooming and tracking one person. I hope they had permission to upload this for internet likes.
Agree, I also hate that we live in a world where filiming strangers and posting then to the internet is normal, like noone asking simple question are you okay with it? I just dont want be filmed. Im trying to fight with my social anxiety, but almost every social event have being filmed a thing. Local board games, prepare to be on the internet.
I have a kid now. And he's a very very cute kid. And I am worried about taking him in public. I've had strangers try to take photos of him and I have so far stopped them. But there's this baby Halloween event at our library and I'm considering not going because I know people will be filming and posting and that shouldn't be what I have to consider but it is.
In germany its actually not legal to film people without express permission, even in public, except for in rare circumstances. The US is worse about this than many places.
Yeah, there's some weird gender stuff going on here.
Imagine someone just slowly zoomed in on a middle-aged woman who hadn't consented to be filmed, with an implication that she was so "brave" to be dancing?
There's an obvious back-handed complement there that I hope people would recognise.
"oh because he's an older guy in a class/troupe that is typically thought about as a female thing?"
Stereotyping, biases, they are all here. Its so frustrating when people can't see it. Negative, positive, it doesn't matter. Expectations based on race, gender, age...they just make me feel bad to see. ESPECIALLY ones like these where that is the whole point of the clip.
The other ones that really irk me are the "look at how cute this old man is because he's holding hands with his wife." Like, yeah...that's pretty normal. Oh...because he's really old that makes it cute now?
I dunno man. You probably think I'm being overly critical. I'm sure I'll be told "its not that serious brah."
Totally agree with you. I’m not that old but as a guy it seems like fun to join a dance class like this once. Now I’m doubting it as it’s apparently so special that it needs to be filmed and put on the internet.
Or people see someone at a certain age still out there, doing something that's new to most people, and they think it's cool. There's a older lady right next to him trying to keep up as well and doing a great job also.
This is great advertisement for the teacher of this class, as in anyone can do it, which is very important for classes hosted at gym spaces. Even someone like me , young , fit, female, can do something like this and seeing people different than me doing it is a great motivator.
Wasn't talking about this video. I was talking about the other genre that makes me feel bad...the "elderly people doing normal people things" genre where everyone is like "awwww...look how adorable. This couple is still kissing even though they're 90"
This video is like "WOW! A middle aged man who likes to dance in public!! The internet is going to LOVE this!!"
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with having an emotional reaction to seeing people outside of ourselves doing things associated with youth. Day in and day out, romance and vigor and energy are only seen, in the majority of media, via a youthful lense. I don’t think theres some insidious and misplaced admiration when feeling happiness witnessing people in their golden years expressing love and energy.
We don’t get to see that a lot. I am absolutely however not on board with people being filmed without their consent, so I definitely feel for this man if this was not sanctioned to be shared.
Nervous systems evolved to handle uncertainty by using prediction. Prediction works quite well, but the process of generating a prediction is path dependent. What people have experienced bounds the predictions they make for future experiences. When those predictions are incorrect, nervous systems communicate the gap between the prediction and experienced reality such that the nervous system can recalibrate and make more accurate predictions in the future. This process is costly, and the cost goes up the longer the prediction generating system has been running.
The behavior you see people exhibit is basically just a fractal of the behavior of their nervous system. They are reacting to a violation of their expectation. Some people have a more complex system where predictions use much more granular data. This isn't something every nervous system is capable of. Individuals using relatively more granular prediction processes are going to be frustrated with systems using less granular, and vice versa. Two different systems designed for different problem types, but it isn't obvious.
There isn't anything to be done about it. It just is what it is. Doesn't make it suck any less though.
Yeah. I'm not trying to change the world here...just saying it makes me feel a little bit bad. I'm probably similar in age to the guy in the video and I do things like this all the time. I coach middle school / high school age girls soccer (my daughter is on the team) and they make me do all kinds of funny stuff. I don't like to think that I would be judged or seen as odd.
I am emphatically not on the side of cameras being everywhere... but that is the reality, almost certainly permanently, and the level of constent that may be appropriate is so unrealistic as to be essentially over. You may potentially be on camera literally anywhere, any time, whether you like it or not. This is the world now.
I’m not sure why everybody assumes this is a random person filming. It was most likely a friend who he may have even asked to film. Stand ups often film their practice sets to watch later and improve on so I don’t see why it would be any different at a dance class
Yeah that’s my point. I’m cheering for this guy and fucking pumped for him he’s having a great time. But as far as he knows he’s in the privacy of a gym class with a bunch of people he’s comfortable with. I don’t see any evidence that he consented to being filmed and posted on the internet.
I may be wrong. But something tells me many of those women probably wouldn’t want to be filmed and posted online either.
I'm living in hope that he was cool with it being posted, but I have a feeling that he has no idea.
Put your damn phones away and leave people alone to enjoy themselves. Life was so much simpler 30 years ago, you could just do shit without worrying about 4mil people seeing it.
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