Three weeks ago, Fuel10988 posted amateur video of a kids band named Unlocking The Truth performing in Manhattan‘s famous Times Square.
Few viewers expected such a hardcore heavy metal performance from the kids. And that’s what makes this intense brutal breakdown so great.
Now, in less than a week, the video has burst onto the viral scene, amassing over 800,000 views.
For their latest ingenious public prank, the East Coast’s most popular improv group Improv Everywhere commissioned 2,000 volunteers to prank world famous Times Square in Manhattan. At just the right moment, everyone began to walk and move in reverse.
Naturally, tourists and even some everyday New Yorkers are completely freaked out. Even some NYPD officers can be seen holding back their smiles.
By now, you, your cat, and your grandma have seen more than a life time supply of Harlem Shake dance videos. But there’s always a few creative stragglers at the end of the life of a meme that truly stick out from the crowd.
CBC set up in advance for countless New Yorkers to converge on Times Square at the same time for an ultimate flash mob Harlem Shake dance.
It’s one of the craziest Harlem Shakes we at ViralViralVideos have seen. If you look closely, you can see a few NYPD officers even make a special appearance as they try to shut the event down. Good thing MarkT Films made sure to document the entire event.
Every time the news or entertainment channels show clips of a famous actor downtown somewhere, there’s always a huge crowd. Girls screaming, body guards pushing, paparazzi photoing. It’s craziness.
Brett Cohen wondered what it would be like become a super star, and decided he was going to find out. He enlisted the the help from his friends, and, together, pranked Times Square.
Dressed in typical celeb flashy stylist garb, Brett took to 42nd St. with a whole entourage. It wasn’t long before he was being barraged by stupid girls wanted a photo with the big ‘celeb.’
The idea has been successfully done before at a suburban mall, but nothing like this on such a large scale.
The video has just gone viral today, and is covered on NYDailyNews, Reddit, and DailyPicks.
Flash mobs are a viral video favorite, but most involve music and dancing. To promote the new MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic, a Jedi themed flash mob was planned in Times Square. But instead of dancing with music, the warriors froze in battle to create an epic in-real-life portrait.
