When the one (gay) (Brazilian) (STEM post-doc) who I know throws parties, a huge part of it is having YouTube or some streaming something-or-another hooked up to your large-screen television, and everyone sings and dances along to music videos and concert performances and stuff that are put up there at the front of the room, with different people wanting different stuff pulled up at different times.
(The way [Brazilians] use technology is very, very different than us, even with similar technologies and websites and whatnot; for example, my acquaintance would have stickers made of photos of himself, and once he sent me a jpeg sticker of him seriously reading a book, to show that he was thinking about something that I had just texted to him… They also FaceTime a lot and move the camera around to share where they’re at with their friends and family, probably as a way of bonding, it seems.)
Anyhow, during one party, I noticed that some videos that people were playing seemed to come as teaser “freebies” from some online exercise class company, where they taught you a dance to some song and then they practiced it with you for the duration of the song and then you could click a link to sign up for online exercise classes with them if you wanted.
“These are exercise videos?!”., I asked the one (nerdy) (worked-out) (Brazilian) (visiting Ph.D. student) who I know and who was there doing the dances along with everyone.
“Yes,” he was like. “This is how everyone learns the same dances for Carnival.”
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