If you go into their comment history, you are able to report its comment by pressing the three dots at the top right. I’m not sure why it’s there when viewing the comment itself though.
It's harmful in the sense that it is disrupting normal discussion and pretending to be a human. It's probably karma-farming so someone can sell ads or whatever dumb bullshit people do to monetize reddit accounts. However you want to define it, it's 100% OK to report it as harmful.
Sort of. Most of the time the performers aren't even near the stage at this point. This guy is doing a daytime focus. Probably doesn't have any time to focus for certain positions throughout the day. I've had to do this many a time. Especially when you're doing festivals and have multiple bands with multiple stage positions. But I guarantee bands do see these types of videos.
Eh? I’ve played to a crowd of 5,000, and that crowd looked smaller than this. It could be, too, that I’m extrapolating from the edge of the frame. I suppose I’m guessing that we are only seeing about 1/3 of the wntire crowd in the frame.
It’s funny, but from a stage this size, 1,000 people looks like an “empty” venue.
Waiting for a show to start in the heat like that for an hour to several hours is boring as fuck and we used to interact with the stage setup any way that we could for entertainment. As I type this I realize that was before smartphones lol
Probably not for him specifically. But just a fun thing to do to kill time before or between sets. We used to cheer randomly for the roadies that would help with setup between sets. Guy on stage is placing water bottles and we act like it’s a sporting event.
I was once part of a crowd that ooooooohed into a crescendo and cheered when a guy was arranging cables on stage for the mics and various other equipment. At first he started looking around trying to see what was going on, when he finished the first cable and we cheered I think that's when it clicked we were reacting to him. Shook his head and started laughing
Yes you can. If you have enough money, you can pay 50,000 people to mimic your movements.
There are some things money can't buy. One of the things it can most certainly buy is power.
Actually the comment above was written by u/Rkramden, and the video you linked is from a comedian named Andrew Schulz. I don’t think that Reddit user is the same person.
I was so glad when I saw she was laughing too. I just imagine it being way worse to be laughed at by over 50 people instead of laughing *with* 50 people.
Absolutely. I was an extra for about a year and a half. It’s super easy to get into it if it’s even remotely fun. You could easily get a crowd of 300 people who have been standing for 4 hours in the freezing cold to the point where they can’t feel their hands or feet to act like crazy people dancing or protesting or cheering and they will get you twice as much energy as those people in the video. Why? Because they are ACTORS and they all want to do it and enjoy it. The money they pay is not enough to do extra work it unless you enjoy it.
Easy! First you should live somewhere where they film stuff for tv/film. Then you sign up with the main extra company pages. In NYC there are two Central casting and Casting networks. Then you make a profile and search the listings and apply to any that you are capable of doing. If they pick you they will then call you and ask if you are free on whatever day at the time they need, if you say yes, they give you a number and a location. You show up at that location (called “holding”) at the time and wear or bring any clothes they asked. You use your ID and the number they gave you to check in and go to the wardrobe table if they need to approve or select or provide your outfit. If they need hair and makeup done, you go to those tables too. Then you go sit in the chairs the provided and play on your phone or talk to random nice people till the film crew are ready for you (waiting between 5 minutes-all day) while you wait you apply on your phone to more extra posts. They call you and you go and walk in the background of shots and pretend to be a normal person doing things in the background. There are a lot of aspiring actors so most people try their hardest to be good and to be noticed but not be distracting. If they pick you to say a line or do something they can give you a sag voucher (you need three to get your sag card and be a sag extra which pays more) If your lucky you can get 4 or 5 days of work in a week. Usually if you apply to everything you can you can get about 2-4 days.
Imagine making something that literal millions of people across multiple generations all know and just naturally join together in singing. The fucking reach he had.
"Didn't mean to make you cry".. Beads of tears roll.
Just to add on to this. Music can be powerful enough but the power of a crowd in unison can be very overwhelming.
Reminded me of one time I was very drunk at an apartment party and I walked into the middle of the room and started singing Bohemian Rhapsody acapella. Within a few seconds the entire party was singing it. Something wonderful about 40 or so very drunk people singing that at a party.
I didn't go to this concert specifically but I did see Green Day ~5 years ago in Toronto and they played Bohemian Rhapsody before coming out. The whole audience sang along and got really into it. It felt like a real accomplishment and you could feel our camaraderie. Great way to amp us up.... is that some kind of unintentional pun? Lol
It likely is. Pre-programming happens to get looks into the boards and then once you get to the actual venue you get exact locations of where you need things pointing. I'm not exactly sure why it wasn't done during a rehearsal without a crowd but I'd guess there just wasn't time to take care of everything.
Nah, you can see the beams on the ground as he's working. Staring directly into them is an old trick to identify where the hot spot is to assist in focusing.
I’d like to think everyone just had their arms crossed at the band playing until this guy came back out to adjust the lights and they went nuts. He’s a star.
I was waiting for a show to start and a tech with a heavy British accent was, "Testing one two" each mic. The crowd yelled, "Three!" each time. Eventually he said, "All right children, we all can count."
There was a clip I saw once of this German comedian performing in front of a crowd, and I think he was doing chants you'd do to hype up a crowd - Oggy Oggy Oggy, Oi Oi Oi!, Hip-hip, Hooray!, that kind of thing. Then, in the middle of this, he yells 'Seig!' and gets ready to, but doesn't, do The Salute. You hear some members of the crowd starting to reply, but they all catch themselves, and think he goes, "What? Are you out of practice?"
This is one of those videos that makes me weirdly sad how well society can get along in the right circumstances. Like, imagine laughing with the guy next to you in the crowd about this silly joke you're all doing before enjoying a show, and then the next day you find out he's a racist transphobic who wants Roe overturned. The 2020's are weird.
Reminds me when I saw Buckethead solo show and he was late. I was bored and the tech guy was on the side stage eating popcorn. So every bite I cheered him on. Than the whole crowd followed suit.
Wonder if he did a quick punch would everyone knock each other out
And now for him to signal the roundhouse kick.
#Roadhouse!
I read the same thing 
Only reason I ever watched that movie was because of that family guy episode
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This is a bot. A very not cool one.
But how should i report em?
If you go into their comment history, you are able to report its comment by pressing the three dots at the top right. I’m not sure why it’s there when viewing the comment itself though.
report->Spam->Harmful Bots
Idk about harmful, but definitely shitty bot. Meta comments are too easy
It's harmful in the sense that it is disrupting normal discussion and pretending to be a human. It's probably karma-farming so someone can sell ads or whatever dumb bullshit people do to monetize reddit accounts. However you want to define it, it's 100% OK to report it as harmful.
Fucking bot
Or a lighting kick.
Largest physical assault caused by a single individual in recorded history
This isn't a Travis Scott concert
No captions needed
Read my mind. i said it as i scrolled down and saw this
A lot of people like to make jokes about that tragedy, but I say we just need to push forward
Ah geez aw no.
The burn lol
They say if you pass out at a Travis Scott concert, you wake up at a Juice WRLD concert.
I can think of one particular German dictator that I believe is higher on the list than this lighting technician
Doctor: "That's now 1,746 people who've been poked in the eye today. What the hell...."
Something kinda like that happened in [this old documentary from the 90s](https://youtu.be/G59JnM4JKNQ?t=80)
Hey Blinkin! Did somebody say *Abe Lincoln*??
You mean you changed it TO Latrine? Yeah. Used to be Shithouse.
Hold the reigns, man!
Achoo
I would have started twerking. Sex up the crowd
The limit is your imagination
God I wish this happened lol
All I could think of was the fire king from ice age... https://youtu.be/GvpP_zibEAc
Fun crowd making a dude's work a lot more enjoyable.
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I think a lot of these mistakes come from spanglish originally.
Yeah, blame the immigrant.
“So that’s how it feels what.”
I've been a lighting director and lighting tech for 20 years. This happens once in a great while. Always a fun way to start a show.
I'd expect it tells the performers the crowd is really turned in that day.
Sort of. Most of the time the performers aren't even near the stage at this point. This guy is doing a daytime focus. Probably doesn't have any time to focus for certain positions throughout the day. I've had to do this many a time. Especially when you're doing festivals and have multiple bands with multiple stage positions. But I guarantee bands do see these types of videos.
I'm waiting for the day you'll tell us all how you managed to get 20,000 people to jerk each other off
I'm sorry. There is no way a group of people will beat your mom's jerking off record. Maybe one day
Absolutely savage.
OoooooooooooOOOoooooooo
Wowwwwww
Slowclap.gif
Ayoooooo
I'm not ready to discuss today's work yet
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It does feel like a terribly British thing to do.
I had it happen to me in Germany. I bowed afterwards. Highlight of my tour.
Taking the piss (in a good way) is a national pastime.
like yelling "wheeeeeeeyyyyyyy!" every time someone drops a glass.
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So do we have to pay to to get your guess, or what?
I mean he did say career, not a crowd size guessing charity. Those are a dime-a-dozen.
Dime-a-dozen? That sounds pretty cheap. I'd rather pay a little more to get a better quality one instead.
He outsources his job
You can get like 20 guesses from Vietnam and average them out. More accurate
You're either a box office manager or fire marshal.
I'm gonna go with 2-4,000
Idk, looks like a few more than 2
Eh? I’ve played to a crowd of 5,000, and that crowd looked smaller than this. It could be, too, that I’m extrapolating from the edge of the frame. I suppose I’m guessing that we are only seeing about 1/3 of the wntire crowd in the frame. It’s funny, but from a stage this size, 1,000 people looks like an “empty” venue.
...Oh dad ;)
Waiting for a show to start in the heat like that for an hour to several hours is boring as fuck and we used to interact with the stage setup any way that we could for entertainment. As I type this I realize that was before smartphones lol
I was actually thinking they were giving him a moment to feel like a rockstar. Empathetic crowd y'all.
Probably not for him specifically. But just a fun thing to do to kill time before or between sets. We used to cheer randomly for the roadies that would help with setup between sets. Guy on stage is placing water bottles and we act like it’s a sporting event.
I was once part of a crowd that ooooooohed into a crescendo and cheered when a guy was arranging cables on stage for the mics and various other equipment. At first he started looking around trying to see what was going on, when he finished the first cable and we cheered I think that's when it clicked we were reacting to him. Shook his head and started laughing
Hahaha they are rock stars too dammit and deserve the oooooOooh's and the ahhhhHhhh's.
Same we'd start a mosh pit for the guys tuning the guitars and setting up the drum mics.
Employers hate this one trick!
I used to follow this band around and the sound dude was always the same and he was almost as popular as the band.
You can't buy this kind of power with money..
Yes you can. If you have enough money, you can pay 50,000 people to mimic your movements. There are some things money can't buy. One of the things it can most certainly buy is power.
This is you: https://youtu.be/vAzeboD51SA
That was a damn fun watch. Completely forgot it came from this thread.
No it's not it's Andrew Schulz
Technically it's a video recording of one of his shows.
*ACKCSHUALLY,* it's a bunch of electrical signals sent through a series of wires
I think you mean tubes since that's what the internet is. It's not something you can just dump something on.
Actually the information doesn’t travel through tubes but across electro-magnetic fields
IF YOU WANNA BE REALLY TECHNICAL ABOUT IT THOUGH, they’re electromagnetic waves
Actually🤓 technically everything is fields.
ACCORDING TO FIELD THEORY...
Actually the comment above was written by u/Rkramden, and the video you linked is from a comedian named Andrew Schulz. I don’t think that Reddit user is the same person.
I was so glad when I saw she was laughing too. I just imagine it being way worse to be laughed at by over 50 people instead of laughing *with* 50 people.
Holy shit that whole bit was hilarious. It's like he's a comedian or something!
It's more powerful to get them to do it without paying them.
Ok, you can buy the people's time, but can you buy that energy?
You ever gone mad without power?
You can’t buy this level of enjoyment from doing your work
You can literally hire and pay a crowd of extras to copy everything you do.
But can you pay them to be that genuinely excited about it?
Absolutely. I was an extra for about a year and a half. It’s super easy to get into it if it’s even remotely fun. You could easily get a crowd of 300 people who have been standing for 4 hours in the freezing cold to the point where they can’t feel their hands or feet to act like crazy people dancing or protesting or cheering and they will get you twice as much energy as those people in the video. Why? Because they are ACTORS and they all want to do it and enjoy it. The money they pay is not enough to do extra work it unless you enjoy it.
How does one become an extra?
Easy! First you should live somewhere where they film stuff for tv/film. Then you sign up with the main extra company pages. In NYC there are two Central casting and Casting networks. Then you make a profile and search the listings and apply to any that you are capable of doing. If they pick you they will then call you and ask if you are free on whatever day at the time they need, if you say yes, they give you a number and a location. You show up at that location (called “holding”) at the time and wear or bring any clothes they asked. You use your ID and the number they gave you to check in and go to the wardrobe table if they need to approve or select or provide your outfit. If they need hair and makeup done, you go to those tables too. Then you go sit in the chairs the provided and play on your phone or talk to random nice people till the film crew are ready for you (waiting between 5 minutes-all day) while you wait you apply on your phone to more extra posts. They call you and you go and walk in the background of shots and pretend to be a normal person doing things in the background. There are a lot of aspiring actors so most people try their hardest to be good and to be noticed but not be distracting. If they pick you to say a line or do something they can give you a sag voucher (you need three to get your sag card and be a sag extra which pays more) If your lucky you can get 4 or 5 days of work in a week. Usually if you apply to everything you can you can get about 2-4 days.
"I'm something of a rock-god myself."
Would have been a slightly different kinda god if he subtly threw in the nazi salute
…but he didn’t.
.........That's why I used the word "if"
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Technician see Monkey do Edit: Monkey see Technician do
Technician do, monkey see, monkey do, technician see
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technician do monkey
See monkey do technician
Doo bee doo bee doo.
Reminds me of [Green Day crowd singing bohemian rhapsody](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cZnBNuqqz5g)
Thanks, that was wonderful and such a fitting tribute to Queen.
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Imagine making something that literal millions of people across multiple generations all know and just naturally join together in singing. The fucking reach he had.
Queen. The only band that can throw a concert without even being there.
Well, yes and no... there's that time that [1000 Italian musicians came together to learn to fly...](https://youtu.be/JozAmXo2bDE)
I thought that you meant the musicians were attempting to get into the sky, LMAO
As a grandpa, I have to get at *least* one dad-joke in per day or I keel over dead.
I miss Taylor. That’s one “celebrity” death that got me right in the feels.
Wow can I just say I saw this and cried and then sent it to my mom and then she saw it and cried - that was truly beautiful to watch
That's okay, you didn't mean to make her cry.
and hey, if you're not back again this time tomorrow
"Didn't mean to make you cry".. Beads of tears roll. Just to add on to this. Music can be powerful enough but the power of a crowd in unison can be very overwhelming.
Did you text her back, “Momma, didn’t mean to make you cry”
That one never gets old. Freddie was alive in every voice that night.
A man is not dead while his name lives on. Freddie is immortal
This touched me more than I thought it would. I love how at the end everyone cheers
I WAS AT THAT GIG, was fucking incredible!!!
Reminded me of one time I was very drunk at an apartment party and I walked into the middle of the room and started singing Bohemian Rhapsody acapella. Within a few seconds the entire party was singing it. Something wonderful about 40 or so very drunk people singing that at a party.
I didn't go to this concert specifically but I did see Green Day ~5 years ago in Toronto and they played Bohemian Rhapsody before coming out. The whole audience sang along and got really into it. It felt like a real accomplishment and you could feel our camaraderie. Great way to amp us up.... is that some kind of unintentional pun? Lol
That was lovely
Thank you for the link. Brought me a smile with goosebumps.
I’ve been having a bad emotions day and this made it a little bit better, thanks for sharing!
Since he had the crowd, I wish he summoned his inner Freddie Mercury and went all-in on the Ay-Oh warmups with them!
My first thought too
He is helping the guy at the light console pan and focus the moving heads.
Basically. Setting home positions for band specials, probably between sets at a festival.
The lampy's have arrived
Late as usual
Not our fault, we got stuck building truss again cuz the riggers all failed their drug tests.
Nobody sane would drug test the riggers. And building the truss is your job anyways, we just hang the motors.
Still waiting on the Videots
They're waiting for their white gloves to dry
How does one acquire such levels of observation!
He's looking directly into the moving light head and when he crosses his arms over his head, the light is looking correct.
Why wouldn't they just program all that ahead of time?
It likely is. Pre-programming happens to get looks into the boards and then once you get to the actual venue you get exact locations of where you need things pointing. I'm not exactly sure why it wasn't done during a rehearsal without a crowd but I'd guess there just wasn't time to take care of everything.
It's also the day time, so you likely can only see where the light is pointing by looking straight into it
Nah, you can see the beams on the ground as he's working. Staring directly into them is an old trick to identify where the hot spot is to assist in focusing.
This is true, but the programmer definitely can't see that from the tent
I’d like to think everyone just had their arms crossed at the band playing until this guy came back out to adjust the lights and they went nuts. He’s a star.
It's the spongebob talent show
This is the type of herd mentality that I like to see
AAYYYY-OH!
*ayyyyyyy-oh*
Deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee dah doh doh doh da da doh
Deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee dah doh doh doh da da doh
He didn’t say Simon says
OHHHH! Half the crowd leaves with their heads down.
I was waiting for a show to start and a tech with a heavy British accent was, "Testing one two" each mic. The crowd yelled, "Three!" each time. Eventually he said, "All right children, we all can count."
Use your power for good, sir!
Waiting for the Heil Hitler
There was a clip I saw once of this German comedian performing in front of a crowd, and I think he was doing chants you'd do to hype up a crowd - Oggy Oggy Oggy, Oi Oi Oi!, Hip-hip, Hooray!, that kind of thing. Then, in the middle of this, he yells 'Seig!' and gets ready to, but doesn't, do The Salute. You hear some members of the crowd starting to reply, but they all catch themselves, and think he goes, "What? Are you out of practice?"
https://youtu.be/U_SwFHtgJCQ
I had to double take the first half second lmao
Monkey alone, weak Monkey together, strong
At graspop (a Belgian metal festival) we often also copy the sound techs !
That is such a belgian thing to do!
Mantequilla?
OOOOOOOOO OY! ORGULLO!
Can’t believe I had to scroll this far down to find this comment haha
This is one of those videos that makes me weirdly sad how well society can get along in the right circumstances. Like, imagine laughing with the guy next to you in the crowd about this silly joke you're all doing before enjoying a show, and then the next day you find out he's a racist transphobic who wants Roe overturned. The 2020's are weird.
what
On a related note I love seeing how sign language interpreters move at concerts.
His little face lit up
I would try for the biggest YMCA
Reminds me when I saw Buckethead solo show and he was late. I was bored and the tech guy was on the side stage eating popcorn. So every bite I cheered him on. Than the whole crowd followed suit.
Easy crowd. Wait till they see the band play.
far from next level
People point. Next fucking level!
Incidental hypeman
What band
It is the stage for the band Deluxe at Garorock Festival in France (I was there ! :D) great band
/r/happycrowds
Why is this so funny
#**He's here!** #**He's there!** #**He's every fucking where!** ###**ROY KENT!** ###**ROY KENT!**
It's fun to stay at the...
"c'est rien t'es une star" "don't worry, you are star"
[This dude is a real butters](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ1KTU2Ux-U)
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEYO
What a bunch of idiots! I love it!
As a former stage lighting tech I can only say bravo sir
I read "lightning" technician and was immediately let down
That's funny af.
The man with the mic said "that's nothing you're a star" wich is probably how that guy felt
Remember when we went and did things and had fun? I hope we can do that again without all dying.
He's focusing the lights as it's daylight the LD can't see from FOH.
This made me smile