Back in September 2009 a few friends and I were having a few drinks on a Saturday night, before our planned assault on the cheap student nightlife of London town. At some point during the evening someone made us listen to the Chase and Status remix of the Nneka song 'Heartbeat'. Someone else then pointed out how well suited the song was for two iconic dance moves - the robot and the air guitar. Inspired, we filmed ourselves dancing along to it. Here was the result:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os9LabSpbE8
We posted it online and the results were underwhelming. In about a month 80 people watched it. So we forgot about it.
Fast forward to 2011 and Rupert (who is so good at the robot they call it the 'ru-bot' these days) remembered our video and looked it up. To our great surprise it had gone viral. Not only had it been viewed by several thousand people, but a flood of comments were pouring in. I think I speak for all of us when I say we felt like 5 Justin Biebers.
If there is a downside to this uplifting tale it is said comments. Not only do very few people seem to appreciate our dancing, but we seemed to have united angry youngsters all over the world in hatred of posh boys (and no, I don't actually think we are that posh - aside from Peter 'yah guys, it's filming' Thompson-Glover).
The comments range from mild attacks ( 'how preppy are you!', 'Can see why you dance at home n not in public')...
...to genuinely upsetting observations ('wow a load of posh twats drinkig wine get a life u wankers im 15 and i got more of a life than u', 'room full of 19 y old virgins').
The last point in particular seems to have been appreciated by the Internet public, although it should be noted that, as Peter pointed out, most of us were at least 20. At least we can sleep sound in the knowledge that for the most part the spelling seems to be as much of an issue as the dancing in question. Thank God we can't see the comments that have been removed.
