FORCED to dance!? 😳💃🏻🕺🏻

"judges would hit you if you weren't dancing hard enough" That sounds incredibly dystopian

Imagine dancing for money and your competitor decides to take a shit and as they dance on, it slowly spreads EVERYWHERE 😭😭

mr beast if laws didnt exist

It kinda reminds me of the dancing plaque tbh

Dance marathons were one of the darkest forms of entertainment during the Great Depression. 🫣 Held across the USA throughout the 1920s and 30s, couples would dance almost nonstop weeks or months. In 1933, Callum DeVillier and Vonny Kuchinski won a marathon in Massachusetts after dancing for FIVE MONTHS STRAIGHT (3,780 hours).... taking home a $1,000 prize (roughly $24,000 today). 😱💰 Contestants were often unemployed and desperate, entering for the cash, free meals and somewhere to stay. Audiences paid 25 cents to watch exhausted dancers hallucinate, collapse, and mentally break down from extreme sleep deprivation (as contestants only slept in rare 15 minute windows). After the d3ath of Homer Morehouse after 87 hours of dancing, cities like Boston, Los Angeles, Seattle, and New York began banning them. 🙅🏼‍♀️

biggest challenge of making this video was that I've never had a single dance lesson in my life 💀

Getting hit for not dancing is insane

At what point do we stop calling it the Great Depression and start calling it World Depression 1?

This is quite literally the basis of the movie "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"

I immediately thought of Gilmore girls when I heard dance marathon

The hunger games but make it dancing

It's insane, how the audience paid money to see how people were tortured or collapsed - reminding me of the medieval age

They had interesting ways of staying entertained 😭

It’s giving that one episode in Gilmore Girls😭

Ohh In Gilmore girls there's an episode where the town promoves an event like that! I didn't know that it happened in real life.

It's giving Gilmore Girls lowk.

I thought it was the dancing plague of 1518 cuz... *zack: "A woman stepped on to the street and began to dance uncontrollably"*🔥

Those photos tho.... They look so tragic while the partner held the other up... Seriously, some rich people historically been treating other people like.... 🤬

The definiton of "dance till your dead" 😔🥀

So like an old time Mr beast challenge with even less regulations. Damn