Aw c'mon. What exactly is objectionable about this? A bunch of young people having fun in public? Stopping some yuppies from shopping for sixty seconds?

This needs an "oh grandpa" tag for the poetv comments.

they are helping the economy by buying up all those unfashionable gold lamé pants, you cad

I love the idea of flash mobs and only hope they can interrupt progressively more important events.

Please tell us where you live and/or work and what time you'll be there

This is unrelated to the video, I promise

The more surreality a flash mob injects into their victims' day, the more like it.

the more *I* like it.

If this happened to me, I would be so happy.

black people

doop doop doop doop

LOOK AT US CHALLENGING YOUR PERCEPTIONS OF WHAT A STORE IS. AREN'T WE SO PRECIOUS?

Here there be enemies of fun.

That fact that someone in the store was in on it, doesn't make it fake.

Unfortunately, from the uploader this does appear to be a "viral" ad for an A&E promoting a reality show about MC Hammers family life. In other words, another bleating gas emission from the rotting corpse of television.

Still, stars because it made me smile, and I can think of worse ways to advertise.

This is some kind of viral for an A&E show called HammerTime, which is a reality TV show featuring MC Hammer's family and business dealings.

So yes, the store is probably in on it. If the music bieng piped through the PA system didn't tip you off.

If the store was in on it, and they filmed it and portrayed it as a spontaneous event, that would make it fake. If the producers intended to convey a sense of spontaneity when it was planned, it is fake.

Viral done entertainingly.

I'm still not going to watch a show about MC Hammer.

If we are aware of it being a viral than it isn't a viral. Any pleasure gained is immediately replaced by rage and a passing anxiety that everything worth loving in our culture is dying.

Oh, c'mon. Tell us how you really feel, baleen.

...Baleen takes a drag from his thin black cigarette, adjusts his beret. "Ahh....the ennui."

I love you baleen.

This is one of those cases where the ad for something is eleven billion times better than the thing which it advertises.

And as for everyone bleating "WHY DO PEOPLE HATE THIS?", fuck off back to your copies of Vice magazine and your dayglo hi-tops, LITERALLY fuck off