created 2025-04-25, & modified, =this.modified
tags:y2025
There was this viral video of pranksters who dressed in the same color uniform as retail workers, and then arrived en-masse to the location, feigning a kind of duplication of the “worker drone” concept.
The reactions I was seeing mainly took two sides. One side said this was disruptive of the workers/customers and self concerned, a symptom of ignorant adolescence. But there was a group of people who were retail workers themselves, who said this was the kind of thing that would annoy them for a few minutes, but then be something they’d talk about for days. It’d make their day.
What I am thinking about is that second group. I think the majority of these pranks are barely pranks and thoughtless attention seeking acts. But I am wondering if it can actually be a beneficial subversive act, capitalizing on that disruption, the attention and whatever freedom and enjoyment the workers got from this event – in the same manner as a pulled false fire alarm is wrong, but would make connections of people milling about waiting to return.
In a naive way, what if the ad revenue went directly to the workers disrupted by this event?