Id also say the main thing is music and dancing. But im from europe and we dont have kandi and all that stuff. I mostly listen to psytrance and as the name says, want to get into some kind of Trance while Dancing without much distraction
This is the best. It describes every moment I've been fanned and didn't have a fan. Now I take a fan to every festival, and I wear out my arms; knowing what I'm giving these people is something better than any lover could give them.
Hell yea I usually have a fan but every time someone had a mister I would be jealous. My sister [had an extra one of these so she gave me it](https://www.amazon.com/Hula-Home-Bottle-Mister-10-1oz/dp/B093KYLLCG/ref=asc_df_B093KYLLCG/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=693033556692&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=9561438419117447196&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9003372&hvtargid=pla-1985413221967&psc=1&mcid=bac86291e7b139009531002204316f94&gad_source=1). Gotta spread the love forward haha
Wow I can’t imagine how good that is, mint is the best when you’re raving with some “help” lol. Only thing I’m not sure if everyone would love it so I’ll just stick with regular water so more people can experience the love. In the future I might bring a smaller one with peppermint in it tho, I want that haha. For now I’ll stick with Vicks, camel crushes and mints/mint gum.
It's definitely worth trying out. I saw him spraying several people and not one person complained. The heat made the cooling effect of the mint a welcome relief to all.
I went to a full-on psytrance massive in Tokyo where hardly anyone spoke English (and we were all rolling balls). At one point I went to high-five my dancing neighbors and realized they had never high-five before. After I demonstrated it a few times I watched it spread all around me as people started high-fiving each other. It was so awesome.
As a fellow fanner the other fans always find me in the crowd & dance with me & fan other people with me (& each other because it’s a full on arm work out 😂)
😂 it is such an unexpected workout!
I recently tried doing some fan dance a friend was doing because it looked fun. Damn near killed myself when my whole hand cramped up, every muscle in it dying lol
I finally decided to buy a fan at Bonnaroo this year, I had no idea how addictive it would feel and how impossible it would be to not fan myself constantly. And that's being completely sober, I couldn't imagine how hard it would be not to fan if I were spun/rolling.
When I get tiny versions of anything, sprouted or find a Give-Something-Leave-Something table it always somehow becomes a profound moment that sticks with me. I know that’s a lot to stay about trinkets but the universe looks out in small ways sometimes.
I gave out a bunch of little wooden acorns at a forest rave here that the cap screwed off of just because I happened to have them in my car. They were a huge hit. I might have to order some more, but this time with holes in the stems, so they can go on necklaces or something. At least they weren't painted or anything, so if they got left behind, they became one with the forest.
My opinion is unpopular, but for me, all these trinkets are simply plastic garbage that is absolutely unsustainable and bad for the planet. We should find an alternative because the gesture itself is very lovely.
Agreed. I have been making glass beaded pins instead to hand out. And I'm going to start turning all the trinkets gifted to me into wearable items like hair pins or ear rings so that I can get some use out of them.
I'm from the UK so I don't know where or what forest is or who Carl is but back in the nineties we used to look for Colin. This would happen in any club, rave, festival when a trance track with a female vocal would sing "I can hear your calling", which sounded like Colin. Then loads of people would start shouting out for Colin and searching the venue for this imaginary guy called Colin. Is this similar?
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Honestly, don’t overthink “fitting in” if that’s what you mean. Everyone was new to the scene at some point. Don’t put too much pressure on yourself. Just go, be respectful, and have fun. You’ll learn more and more about the culture as you frequent shows and you’ll learn how much you want to lean into the culture and what certain things you love.
Sounds like you are specifically referencing American rave culture. I've never swapped a bracelet in my life in Australia. It's just about having fun, being silly, dancing, talking shit with your mates if you're not actually dancing in the mosh, and being nice to people.
Get to know people? Dance, drugs, music, sit around camp chilling with people and laughing about nothing like it’s a vacation coz you don’t get to do it very often?
If you wanna be more active it depends on the festival. Quite a few have a performing arts element or comedy so various costumes and trinkets and gadgets can make it more fun and trippy for others. Hot day? Water pistols. (Not on people with high level hair and makeup haha). Bubble guns, you and a mate dressing up as a character and acting something out? Laser fingers? Infinity cube? Weird kaleidoscope sunglasses? There’s a lot of conversation starters. I’ve been handed rubber ducks and had girlies come up and put shimmer and stickers on my face.
I go to some quite weird ones in the UK personally so it quite common for groups to dress up together and bring props. People making a blindfold limbo and taking the limbo away, women in pink knitted kink wear with big sticks walking each other around in cages, morris dancers, walking bushes, puppeteers with giant snails, stilted people who look like those roller guys from return to Oz, group of cannabis themed people handing out rings so you can toss them onto the dildos attached to their head…
The ones I go to have their own actors and sideshows too. Temp tattoos, acrobats, circus tents, ball pits, ketamine horse races, assault courses, ball pits with clowns, mad hatters house…
For me, it’s vibing around my general area. Especially if I know the words. I’ll kinda spin around and find random people locked in like me, just look at them with a big smile and sing the words. Always a fun way to connect with others living their best lives.
It depends on who you’re listening to. SOME artists have “signature” things, but in all honesty, it’s very few that I know of. X, Slander, and Zeds Dead makes a Z with their hands. But those aren’t necessities.
The only thing that really matters is if you’re being a good human & you’re having a good time (however you find you do that best)!
TBH, I have never seen this, but according to OP, people make a diamond with their hands. IDK if this was a new thing (as I haven’t seen it in the multiple times I’ve seen Slander, but I digress) or if this is a region specific thing, but I included it in the list since OP mentioned it.
Don't take Polaroids of your dick and leave them in portapotties, because apparently that's assault, and not funny, and your tattoos will be visible making you identifiable
You know, you don't need to act like a toddler when you're on ecstasy. Just vibe without clichés, it's just as fun. Maybe I'm just old and allergic to cringe.
I'm the one with the camp stove, huge cooler, solar panels bolted to my roof rack, and humongous battery typically running a DC powered fan on hot days. Any and all are welcome to come "mooch." Look for the spot with a few hammocks on stands. Those are also free to use. Just, for the love of everything good in the world, do NOT puke in one and leave the mess.
Try to connect and vibe with as many people as possible. Bracelets are one way. I've also recently been a big fan of brining packs of gum, or a thing of mints. When I enter a crowd I'll tap everyone around me on the shoulder and ask "want a mint? want a piece of gum?" - it makes everyone instantly friendly, open up, and you end up having WAY more fun with the people around you during the show. Try it out!
Even though it's wasteful as fuck, I have to admit that when I see
Heads of lettuce ripped up in the crowd at Lettuce
Bags of sliced bread frisbee through the crowd at Daily Bread
I get a good chuckle at the commitment and silliness.
I know a lot of people don’t know this and can be unpleasantly surprised… I also don’t know if this is just limited to Electric Forest but if you fly a pirate flag, it’s an invitation to challenge somebody to steal it. Like the capture the flag game.
People also say “Happy [festival name]!”
A lot of people love decorating those wooden clothes pins and try to secretly pin somebody who’s not paying attention! I love this fun prank that results in a surprise gift and it’s so fun to be the giver or recipient of one 🥰 People love showing off their spouts or clothes pins too so it’s not a trinket that becomes trash as easy as other ones
Gotta slap the bag!! It’s customary to buy cheep box wine and make your crew slap the bag before pouring a shot into their mouth 😂
i guess cheat in ur gf. had different camping than my bf and he added a girl on snap that he apparently was trying to fuck our entire relationship. who knows what else he’s done ha
I spend the whole time trying to sneak alcohol and food in the venue or walking back and forth from camp to eat and go back. Always trying to ball on a budget and I enjoy people watching. Otherwise I'm just hitting my favorite shows and dancing with my friends (which may or may not be the friends I game with since Internet is usually toasted)
Take a spool of yarn with you. Start sending the string off into the crowd. Get everyone to start passing it.
I was dancing around at Peach Fest, and someone tapped me to hand me the string end and said, "Pass it along." So, I continued and helped move this string around the entire crowd.
It was hilariously trippy 😂
Train for this - build those callouses up.
Also, use a gyroball or a flex bar - forarm and grip strength for days. I consider it a public service.
The wook throng thanks you for your service 🫡
Edit: this was in regards to fanning people, not anal at the rail - though one could likely train for that too.
Another suggestion: gifting - big element of festivals in general, have a gimmick, a gift, a craft, a little something to share some light, laughter and happiness with the people. Personally, I've got a kaleidoscope, hand out rubber ducks, and diffraction glasses to folks in the crowd.
I've seen other things here too - fans, gum, candy, vicks, a lightshow, jokes, whatever - mainly, share yourself and of yourself brighten people's day / night.
I think it’s fun to find out through experiences with strangers over time. My advice, talk to strangers. And I don’t mean just hit on strangers. Actually converse with random people cause you just like their hat or something funny on their shirt, you’ll be surprised what you learn and eventually even who you run into multiple times randomly
Pirates game!
If you see a pirate flag you can steal it, if it has red on it though that means physical contact is OK if they catch you tryna steal it!
FLOW TOYS!!!! There’s poi, flow stars, hula hoops, light up gloves, Levi wands and more!!!
Also some people wear diffraction glasses. It’s a whole vibe!! ☺️
PLUR is only a thing you Americans do, please don’t bring it across to the UK…as for us we like to get absolutely wrecked, yall wouldn’t last a hour here🤌🏽
I’ll throw the cross up with my forearms during certain moments when seeing Justice. Or if a DJ plays Justice. Daft Punk also have the pyramid hands but that’s old school.
The main thing is listening to the dj’s and dancing. Everything else is secondary.
I would say the main thing is culture which flourishes around music.
Id also say the main thing is music and dancing. But im from europe and we dont have kandi and all that stuff. I mostly listen to psytrance and as the name says, want to get into some kind of Trance while Dancing without much distraction
Even with all the kandi and stuff here, I'd still say the main thing is the music and dancing
Exactly. Don’t want to talk want to zone out and dance
nah it's the music
I really love fanning myself and the crowd around me. Nothing creates positive vibes like fanning your neighbors during a slow moment in the music.
It's like having the ability to give touchless orgasms.
This is the best. It describes every moment I've been fanned and didn't have a fan. Now I take a fan to every festival, and I wear out my arms; knowing what I'm giving these people is something better than any lover could give them.
"better than any lover could give them" 😆😆
You can't tell me I'm wrong 😂
I literally leave EVERY festival with a huge blister on my right hand in the palm from non stop aggressive fanning lol
Same.. Last one got both my hands. I need a more comfortable fan
SAME!!
and carpal tunnel for meee 😭 i go extra hard for my fellas on molly
Have a water mister and a fan ready for my next fest to bless the peoples
I love this idea!
Hell yea I usually have a fan but every time someone had a mister I would be jealous. My sister [had an extra one of these so she gave me it](https://www.amazon.com/Hula-Home-Bottle-Mister-10-1oz/dp/B093KYLLCG/ref=asc_df_B093KYLLCG/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=693033556692&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=9561438419117447196&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9003372&hvtargid=pla-1985413221967&psc=1&mcid=bac86291e7b139009531002204316f94&gad_source=1). Gotta spread the love forward haha
My person, thank you! I just ordered one. I'm going to freaky deaky later this year and I'm gonna need it
Rock on! Make sure to think of me as it saves your life in the thick of an amazing set 😂
Why don't you just join me at an amazing set?
Of course, if you’re going to elements festival or are in the NYC area haha
There was this kid at Roo that had one of those with peppermint essential oils mixed in the water and it felt so refreshing 😵💫
Wow I can’t imagine how good that is, mint is the best when you’re raving with some “help” lol. Only thing I’m not sure if everyone would love it so I’ll just stick with regular water so more people can experience the love. In the future I might bring a smaller one with peppermint in it tho, I want that haha. For now I’ll stick with Vicks, camel crushes and mints/mint gum.
It's definitely worth trying out. I saw him spraying several people and not one person complained. The heat made the cooling effect of the mint a welcome relief to all.
People fanning those around them are my favorite lmao, y’all are life savers
Tbh it’s just my way of fidgeting ADHD and it benefits everyone instead of annoying anyone lol 🤷🏻♂️
Ya welcome
I went to a full-on psytrance massive in Tokyo where hardly anyone spoke English (and we were all rolling balls). At one point I went to high-five my dancing neighbors and realized they had never high-five before. After I demonstrated it a few times I watched it spread all around me as people started high-fiving each other. It was so awesome.
What year was this? I feel like they would’ve at least seen it in movies or something lol
Ditto
As a fellow fanner the other fans always find me in the crowd & dance with me & fan other people with me (& each other because it’s a full on arm work out 😂)
😂 it is such an unexpected workout! I recently tried doing some fan dance a friend was doing because it looked fun. Damn near killed myself when my whole hand cramped up, every muscle in it dying lol
I seriously love people who are fanning others🥹❤️
Aw. Ily2!
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I finally decided to buy a fan at Bonnaroo this year, I had no idea how addictive it would feel and how impossible it would be to not fan myself constantly. And that's being completely sober, I couldn't imagine how hard it would be not to fan if I were spun/rolling.
I was at Bonnaroo too! Man was it hot this year lol
Ridiculously so. It was so cold Tuesday night I thought maybe the weekend would be tolerable but then the ol switcheroo got me.
Drugs.
And drugs.
I love my mama, lord knows I does
also drugs
Yeah, but dont forget about the drugs!
And thennnnnn more drugs!!
I love my family, my cousins, that's my blood
And more drugs.
Way more drugs @
Did someone say drugs?
YOU DON'T WANT TO PART OF THIS DEWEY
d
R
U
g
G
G
dont forget free drugs!
I love when they play music at the drug festival!
What he said but more drugs
this is so real
I love handing out trinkets, personally. I had a bunch of small, quarter size plastic bananas I gave out at EDC and everyone’s reaction was awesome
I was handing out little plush bananas last year at edco 😂 Can confirm people love them some bananas.
When I get tiny versions of anything, sprouted or find a Give-Something-Leave-Something table it always somehow becomes a profound moment that sticks with me. I know that’s a lot to stay about trinkets but the universe looks out in small ways sometimes.
I gave out a bunch of little wooden acorns at a forest rave here that the cap screwed off of just because I happened to have them in my car. They were a huge hit. I might have to order some more, but this time with holes in the stems, so they can go on necklaces or something. At least they weren't painted or anything, so if they got left behind, they became one with the forest.
My opinion is unpopular, but for me, all these trinkets are simply plastic garbage that is absolutely unsustainable and bad for the planet. We should find an alternative because the gesture itself is very lovely.
Agreed. I have been making glass beaded pins instead to hand out. And I'm going to start turning all the trinkets gifted to me into wearable items like hair pins or ear rings so that I can get some use out of them.
Anal at the rail, but only if Illenium is playing.
This joke will never not be funny.
Joke?
no jokes here my friend
railnal
Boof some k first, spice it up a little.
Also have poppers ready to go 😉
NO ANAL!
YES ANAL!
Haven’t been to forest in years, do people still look for Carl?
I'm from the UK so I don't know where or what forest is or who Carl is but back in the nineties we used to look for Colin. This would happen in any club, rave, festival when a trance track with a female vocal would sing "I can hear your calling", which sounded like Colin. Then loads of people would start shouting out for Colin and searching the venue for this imaginary guy called Colin. Is this similar?
Yeah people just run around going CAAAARRLLL WHERES CARL?!
In Germany Carl was a girl called Helga and she always gets lost on the festival campsite
Haha nice, good to know the drugs are still good!
yes
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Honestly, don’t overthink “fitting in” if that’s what you mean. Everyone was new to the scene at some point. Don’t put too much pressure on yourself. Just go, be respectful, and have fun. You’ll learn more and more about the culture as you frequent shows and you’ll learn how much you want to lean into the culture and what certain things you love.
Appreciate that
duckies , trinkets , sprouts, fanning, admiring booty and giving everyone safe space to dance
Booooty
Why are duckies a thing?
why is anything a thing
Thank you.
I’m high right now, this helped.
right high im helped this
Why you do a like thing that be this way?
....name out checks user
They're cute! I love ducks IRL. I could spend hours watching Mallards bop around in the water and stick their butts up in the air.
We get ducked up on quak!
The whole booty thing is still a little weird for me as a european. No judging tho.
I know Europeans like booty, you're not fooling me
Yeah ofc lol but our rave attire isnt lingerie and ive never seen anyone twerking to techno/psytrance
What do you mean by sprouts?
🌱
I also love giving people lightshows
God Bless You brother, people who give light shows are best
It's super fun. Love seeing how people enjoy and keep up a vibe
Sounds like you are specifically referencing American rave culture. I've never swapped a bracelet in my life in Australia. It's just about having fun, being silly, dancing, talking shit with your mates if you're not actually dancing in the mosh, and being nice to people.
Same in NZ. Our group takes fans, water bottles and sweets. We're there to enjoy the music.
Person next to me noticing that I’m taking a bump: “Could I have one too?” Me: “Yeah sure” Person: “Cool if my friend has one as well?” Me: 🙃
Meanwhile I'm the friend over here like: 👉👈👀
Me aggressively snorting pre workout in the background cause I just want to feel included
So relatable. I usually just down a shot of mio energy.
Spin a variety of props such as hoops, poi, staffs, gloving etc it’s a lot of fun to do/watch
SKEE YEEEEE
Vibing~~**~~
Get to know people? Dance, drugs, music, sit around camp chilling with people and laughing about nothing like it’s a vacation coz you don’t get to do it very often? If you wanna be more active it depends on the festival. Quite a few have a performing arts element or comedy so various costumes and trinkets and gadgets can make it more fun and trippy for others. Hot day? Water pistols. (Not on people with high level hair and makeup haha). Bubble guns, you and a mate dressing up as a character and acting something out? Laser fingers? Infinity cube? Weird kaleidoscope sunglasses? There’s a lot of conversation starters. I’ve been handed rubber ducks and had girlies come up and put shimmer and stickers on my face. I go to some quite weird ones in the UK personally so it quite common for groups to dress up together and bring props. People making a blindfold limbo and taking the limbo away, women in pink knitted kink wear with big sticks walking each other around in cages, morris dancers, walking bushes, puppeteers with giant snails, stilted people who look like those roller guys from return to Oz, group of cannabis themed people handing out rings so you can toss them onto the dildos attached to their head… The ones I go to have their own actors and sideshows too. Temp tattoos, acrobats, circus tents, ball pits, ketamine horse races, assault courses, ball pits with clowns, mad hatters house…
Whatever you do, don't ever fan clack. Everyone hates those people as much as phone thieves.
LoL I don't do it, but I actually like the sound. I must be broken.
For me, it’s vibing around my general area. Especially if I know the words. I’ll kinda spin around and find random people locked in like me, just look at them with a big smile and sing the words. Always a fun way to connect with others living their best lives.
It depends on who you’re listening to. SOME artists have “signature” things, but in all honesty, it’s very few that I know of. X, Slander, and Zeds Dead makes a Z with their hands. But those aren’t necessities. The only thing that really matters is if you’re being a good human & you’re having a good time (however you find you do that best)!
What does slander do?
TBH, I have never seen this, but according to OP, people make a diamond with their hands. IDK if this was a new thing (as I haven’t seen it in the multiple times I’ve seen Slander, but I digress) or if this is a region specific thing, but I included it in the list since OP mentioned it.
ya mom
Smoke a cigarette. Wear a 3rd eye pinecone. Break your neck on 1 and 3. Go to the medical tent. Get your phone stolen.
I like to give light shows! With gloves and orbitals.
Don't take Polaroids of your dick and leave them in portapotties, because apparently that's assault, and not funny, and your tattoos will be visible making you identifiable
Everyone is boofing k nowadays
Yeah that's like a must to fit in
You know, you don't need to act like a toddler when you're on ecstasy. Just vibe without clichés, it's just as fun. Maybe I'm just old and allergic to cringe.
Yea, just be normal and have fun. You don't need to do anything
There's sober ravers that love all the cliché stuff. Idk people are complicated 🤷🏽♂️.
Ligh shows , drinking, dancing, and getting hella raunchy
Light shows with light gloves, my friend cousin is insanely good at it and it’s very trippy!
Recently i heard of one girl getting fingerbanged under a sheet of plastic using a slice of processed ham as a barrier. Hope this helps
smoke hella weed and skank my ass of lol
At camping fests, getting to know my neighbors and hanging out with new friends all weekend. Making extra food by “accident” and then sharing it.
I'm the one with the camp stove, huge cooler, solar panels bolted to my roof rack, and humongous battery typically running a DC powered fan on hot days. Any and all are welcome to come "mooch." Look for the spot with a few hammocks on stands. Those are also free to use. Just, for the love of everything good in the world, do NOT puke in one and leave the mess.
Try to connect and vibe with as many people as possible. Bracelets are one way. I've also recently been a big fan of brining packs of gum, or a thing of mints. When I enter a crowd I'll tap everyone around me on the shoulder and ask "want a mint? want a piece of gum?" - it makes everyone instantly friendly, open up, and you end up having WAY more fun with the people around you during the show. Try it out!
It's a dance and drug party, not too complicated. You go there, get high, and goof around with friends to fun music.
Being in the moment. Being friendly with folks around them. Sharing gum, starburst, mints, earplugs, Kandi, vibes…
Even though it's wasteful as fuck, I have to admit that when I see Heads of lettuce ripped up in the crowd at Lettuce Bags of sliced bread frisbee through the crowd at Daily Bread I get a good chuckle at the commitment and silliness.
Surfboard
If you ever see Ott. live make sure you bring a toothbrush for his set to brush your teeth
Mostly just the mandatory orgies I guess. You’ve got your small animal for the sacrifice right?
I know a lot of people don’t know this and can be unpleasantly surprised… I also don’t know if this is just limited to Electric Forest but if you fly a pirate flag, it’s an invitation to challenge somebody to steal it. Like the capture the flag game. People also say “Happy [festival name]!” A lot of people love decorating those wooden clothes pins and try to secretly pin somebody who’s not paying attention! I love this fun prank that results in a surprise gift and it’s so fun to be the giver or recipient of one 🥰 People love showing off their spouts or clothes pins too so it’s not a trinket that becomes trash as easy as other ones Gotta slap the bag!! It’s customary to buy cheep box wine and make your crew slap the bag before pouring a shot into their mouth 😂
rave nt for u. sounds like looked up google image ‘rave’ and named thingz you saw.
“Don’t know of PLUR, be of PLUR” -Confucius, probably….
i guess cheat in ur gf. had different camping than my bf and he added a girl on snap that he apparently was trying to fuck our entire relationship. who knows what else he’s done ha
They dont clack their fans and woop woop at every other drop, no they don't do any of that
oi oi, Oi Oi, OI OI
Drugs?
Zeds dead has a hand thing too
What does he second R in PLUR stand for?
Responsibility
Traditionally it stands for respect. Now respect/responsibility.
They asked about the second R so I assumed they knew about the respect part.
Oh I didn’t see that sorry.
wook Olympics
cocaine
Sex, drugs, acting a complete idiot, rolling about in puddles of mud
Gunfingers
They destroy the porta potties and showers
i personally like the energy that’s trasmitted in the festival. Drugs are secondary and then the music
Yelling "CARRRRLL" & asking "Can I get a HOOOOoooooYeahh (with some sexy moaning emphasis)" at the campgrounds at a fest is always a good time, lol
I spend the whole time trying to sneak alcohol and food in the venue or walking back and forth from camp to eat and go back. Always trying to ball on a budget and I enjoy people watching. Otherwise I'm just hitting my favorite shows and dancing with my friends (which may or may not be the friends I game with since Internet is usually toasted)
I usually just trip and go wherever my legs take me.
Anything that's fun and silly and can be shared. It's fun to have a bit and be a fun memory for everyone you cross paths with
I pee in the Swannee.
Take a spool of yarn with you. Start sending the string off into the crowd. Get everyone to start passing it. I was dancing around at Peach Fest, and someone tapped me to hand me the string end and said, "Pass it along." So, I continued and helped move this string around the entire crowd. It was hilariously trippy 😂
Train for this - build those callouses up. Also, use a gyroball or a flex bar - forarm and grip strength for days. I consider it a public service. The wook throng thanks you for your service 🫡 Edit: this was in regards to fanning people, not anal at the rail - though one could likely train for that too. Another suggestion: gifting - big element of festivals in general, have a gimmick, a gift, a craft, a little something to share some light, laughter and happiness with the people. Personally, I've got a kaleidoscope, hand out rubber ducks, and diffraction glasses to folks in the crowd. I've seen other things here too - fans, gum, candy, vicks, a lightshow, jokes, whatever - mainly, share yourself and of yourself brighten people's day / night.
I think it’s fun to find out through experiences with strangers over time. My advice, talk to strangers. And I don’t mean just hit on strangers. Actually converse with random people cause you just like their hat or something funny on their shirt, you’ll be surprised what you learn and eventually even who you run into multiple times randomly
Yell “*city/festival name*, how tf we feelin baby?!” for John Summit
boof assist
Pirates game! If you see a pirate flag you can steal it, if it has red on it though that means physical contact is OK if they catch you tryna steal it!
FLOW TOYS!!!! There’s poi, flow stars, hula hoops, light up gloves, Levi wands and more!!! Also some people wear diffraction glasses. It’s a whole vibe!! ☺️
Drugs
PLUR is only a thing you Americans do, please don’t bring it across to the UK…as for us we like to get absolutely wrecked, yall wouldn’t last a hour here🤌🏽
drugs
Some dare to clack their fans
Throw a few whoop whoops, followed by a some fan clacks and then take a picture while lighting the area with another phone for as long as possible.
PushingLightningUproarRecording
whoop whoop
I’ll throw the cross up with my forearms during certain moments when seeing Justice. Or if a DJ plays Justice. Daft Punk also have the pyramid hands but that’s old school.
Ask that in r/festivals
Fan clacking
Boofing