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Cumol  ·  3309 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 3 Questions with @elizabeth (now with video)

The weepiness you describe, I think I can relate...

I have found some videos, usually of festival/concert crowds, that give me a similar feeling. The "togetherness" gives me a specific kind of goosebumps... on my cheeks.

There is a subreddit called /r/HappyCrowds that gathers videos of such moments and I think I am addicted.

Here are some of my favorites:

The first one is of 1000 italian Foo Fighters fans playing one of their famous songs as a way to convince the Foo Fighters to visit Italy :) The way the drummers are playing in synchrony :)

The second one is of a Haka flashmob. Haka is an ancient Maori war cry/dance.

The third is probably the one that comes closest to what you mentioned. A massive choir of multiple thousand singers performing a traditional latvian folk song.

There is more if that interests you :)