Friday, June 19th, 2009...5:17 pm
How to lead to collective hysteria?
I love this video because it exactly shows how collective histeria comes. First, the guy is alone, it is a bit ridiculous to see him dancing like this all alone. When the second guy arrives there is a kind of risk : will they fight? Will they stop togther laughing of themselves… When the third guy arrives we understand how exciting it is just to free-dance like this on the grass during a sunny afternoon. Suddenly the balance turns from look at those funny guys to that is so cool, I want to be with them. And people start to scream, and a first group of people arrives, the another… more and more screams and everybody gather in a collective joy.
It is here the first collective joy or histeria, I have ever seen from start to end in three minutes. I think it shows and explain what happened on larger scale for beatlemania or facebook success. It is very interesting for pearltrees. Let’s try to identify the factors that makes this collective histeria happens :
- everybody hear and can see what happens => communication or visibility
- it takes one minute before the first group join and the collective hysteria starts at two minute laters => time
- a surnatural excitment from those who are experiencing the free-dance => testimonial
- people that shows there is no cost of entrance (no shame) => Free or not expensive
The second challenge which is not in the video is how long will they dance? That was in the bealtes amazing creativity, in facebook amazing platform and that will be in pearltrees amazing interaction between the community and the platform.


6 Comments
June 20th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
This video is awesome ! It’s really interesting to see this phenomenon starting with 1 guy and leading to hysteria in less than 2 minutes.
I would add a dimension to your list: the context/environment needs to fit. The guy is at a music festival where people are for fun, music and dancing (and drinking… which helps for hysteria
). So his act of dancing alone is not totally off context. It’s not a pre-requesite but it helps tremendously.
June 20th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
It seems you miss drinking a little bit, my dear Wallen… Good times will be on soon… Keep going. F
June 20th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Remind me “where the hell is matt” phenomenon. During the last trip in 2008 he recorded his dances with his community.
The video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY) has 21 million views.
June 23rd, 2009 at 6:02 pm
I dance with Matt!
July 13th, 2009 at 12:03 am
Still there is the kwaito.
http://www.myspace.com/mujava.
July 13th, 2009 at 8:49 am
I also dance with DJ Mujava.
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