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Is it really a “flash” mob if it’s planned months in advance from people organizing publically on Facebook or Reddit?

• dexen 6y ago
  Yes, very much so - long, gradual built-up of momentum by interested parties is typical to grassroots movements. It happens slowly - and then all at once.
• superkuh 6y ago
  It's more like a "stand alone complex" from the Ghost in the Shell entertainment series. >"a stand alone complex is multiple copies of a behavior, object, view, ect, existing without an original." It doesn't imply there wasn't an original, but usually that original was just the seed crystal for the behavior.
  • pjc50 6y ago
    Yes, or Baudrillard's "simulacra".
• xboxnolifes 6y ago
  The "flash" part of flash mob describes the execution of the mob, not the planning. It could be planned years in advanced and still be a flash mob if their audience didn't expect it.