For this blog response, I read a news article entitled, "The New Pranksters" (see citation). This article is about a large group of young people who are stirring up the 'norm' by creating intricate pranks. My personal favorite prank that they've pulled is getting about five hundred people of all ages to freeze simultaneously in a public subway station. A video of the prank was posted online and after five minutes of puzzled onlookers, everyone unfroze and continued as if nothing odd had happened.
I believe that the reason behind these random pranks are to get people to stop and think instead of going about their daily routine. It's more of a series of social experiments that are eventually going to end up defining our generations. Ari Lerner comments in the article, "We're finding ourselves more and more disconnected [...] We all sit at our computers and we forget that there's a sun outside." She points out that the group is trying to shake away the monotony of the everyday life.
I love watching these people, no performers, go out and confuse people.
Gamerman, Ellen. "The New Pranksters." Editorial. Weekend Journal 12 Sep. 2007: w1+.
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