California woman went to an influencer event where flash mob broke out. She sprinted off the beach and called an Uber: ‘I’m so invested’

What would you do if you were at an influencer event and then a flash mob suddenly broke out? What if you have absolutely no dancing bones in your body? This is an actual scenario that Rosie (@hotandmiddleeastern) got into and shared on TikTok.

Rosie, who’s from California, went to an influencer event that she said was “marketed as a beach dance class.” In most cases, this means Zumba and a few cocktails on the side with a bunch of other cool girls. Immediately, Rosie noticed that she didn’t know anyone at the event. Meanwhile, the women seemed to know each other—one even said that some faces are familiar because they’d “auditioned” for her before.

They’re in Los Angeles—auditions can mean anything. It’s probably the first place on earth people picture as an influencer hub. Even Rosie wasn’t so concerned with it at first until a flash mob surrounded her.

All of a sudden, a bunch of girls are busting out their best moves at the beach, and everyone knew the dance. Rosie clarified that her content on TikTok is comedy, nothing dance-related. She confessed that she isn’t much of a dancer herself, which adds horror to the scenario.

“Everyone knew the dance but me,” she recounted. Then, the girls she was talking to started saying that dance class “was about to start.”

Rosie asked the girls if they were good at dancing, and she found out they’re professionals. One even mentioned, “Yeah, I’ve been dancing for twelve years.”

That wasn’t the response she was expecting or hoping for at all. It turns out that this beach event wasn’t just a random influencer Zumba class. Imagine the entirety of DanceTok being on a beach—that’s more or less what it looked like.

Did she fake it until she made it?

Without warning or introduction, the dance class instructor came in. Cameras started rolling. Rosie described the moves as “Tyla-level dancing.” Since they’re all in LA, there’s a high possibility that might actually be Tyla’s choreographer.

Everyone on TikTok is laughing, but non-dancers know that this is actually a horror story.

“I’m not a dancer. I can barely sway my hips in a concert, are you kidding me? I felt like this was SeaWorld and I was Shamu.” And yet, Rosie found herself in the middle of girls who had been dancing for more than half of their lives.

It doesn’t get better for Rosie because the dance steps just became even more complicated. Some moves later, Rosie was at the front of the class—the only woman who wasn’t a professional dancer. The dance instructor decided to shift, and what was previously the back of the dance class became the front of the class.

Margarita in hand, Rosie was shaking where she stood.

“You have two options, Rosie,” she thought at the time. “You literally have to throw your whole [censored] into this and just pretend that you’re also a dancer, or option two. Come to a full realization that you’re not a dancer, get your shit, and run.”

She chose the most sensible option—she sprinted with a margarita in hand and booked it out of there. People were looking at Rosie, who was bright red, booking an Uber. Just when she thought she could catch a break, even the Uber decided to cancel on her. She had to wait another eight minutes in utter humiliation before finding an Uber that finally took her away from the beach.

“Fake it until you make it” only works if it’s convincing. If a non-dancer tries to whack it out, two things could happen—they either discover that they’re absurdly talented at dancing or they trip over themselves in front of LA’s dance community. Rosie was not willing to find out right then and there.

(featured images: Hameen Reynolds, hotandmiddleastern, SHOX ART)

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