@brettzky98
The fact that they were doing a seemingly regular cheer routine w/music then pivot to this just makes it funnier for me
@Amdog123
4:47 the unruly anger we felt… * backflips into the pentagon*
@Worlds-hottest-absent-father
“A second haileigh has hit the tower”
@toriwoodall757
I’d love to see this group tackle more tragedies… the Titanic, JFK Assassination, the entire year of 2020
@a.s.raiyan2003-4
"Sir, a second college girl just hit the tower"
@nataliamueller7357
Okay, but imagine going to practice and your coach is yelling “HEY! SAMANTHA! BACKFLIP INTO THE PENTAGON BETTER! Yeah! There we go.”
@tealbricks
I'm a veteran. I was stationed in DC. The backflip into the pentagon had me rolling. Unintentional dark humor is my favorite kind
@Juncti
As bad as it is just remember, they rehearsed this. Many times. Until they were ready to perform it live. Over and over, and no one at any point was like "you know, this isn't feeling like a good idea"
@taybai22
I’m in Australia and I care mate. It’s a moment in history that stopped me in my tracks. I can’t remember yesterday but I remember what I was doing, how I found out and how I felt at that moment and how it impacted me feeling for so many. It still feels surreal. I literally walked in my friends front door and she was kneeling right in front of her TV screen and I asked her what movie she was watching & when she told me the reality, I wanted to vomit. It still makes me sick. Thanks for sharing this video. This baffles me
@Sibella0
listen, as somebody who has done competitive dance and cheerleading my whole youth, this is actually really common unfortunately. at competitions studios want to stand out and usually make a “message”, which is usually just for winning at comps. My old dance studio did a rosa parks contemporary reenactment (with all white people) at dream to dance 2018.
@kittyscreativecorner
The music in the background being played simultaneously with George Bush is just absolutely sending me, I feel like I’m watching found footage of a deleted scene from glee
@hannahgx53
a human reenactment of 9/11 with a cheer squad is crazyyy
@SetsunaMeiou-SailorPluto
The immediate silence in the audience and visible and then audible confusion followed by the loud and then silent disbelief. 😂
@jennatull6478
Couple things stood out to me. The cheerleaders were sultry dancing to American Woman before the tribute (no shame, but a weird lead up)..... turned into W's speech over ENYA...while wearing US fatigue army camo-type shirts they fly themselves into each other....and forget a pentagon has five sides. This was SO disrespectful. I hope their intent was good, but dozens of people had to participate or witness this, and didn't think it was inappropriate is nuts to me.
@Voltsization
Maybe maybe they should have just had a moment of silence.
@SleepNeed
As soon as I heard the W. Bush soundbite, I thought “oh no, no, no, they didn’t…” then they did it.
@random_dragon
4:46 "I was so distracted by the Pentagon getting hit that I didn't even notice the fog machine" I legit had to pause the video for a moment, oh my gosh. This is one of those quotes that it doesn't matter if you know the context or not 😂
@C-Rage
Holy shit the first girl being carried over almost had me almost hit the floor I was laughing so hard. My wife is sitting next to me jaw almost on the floor and saying "I would disown the girls if they did something like this" while I am on the other end of the couch just dying 🤣 I had tears going, my cheeks started hurting. Thank you so much August for covering this!
@saracummings9133
I was a cheerleader for 8 years and I genuinely can't comprehend how nobody put a stop to this before they performed it... like the coaches who came up with it, and watched them practice it over and over again... did they NOT ONCE think "this might be kinda messed up" ?! it reminds me of a bad controversial situation that almost happened with my cheer team that I was a captain of but I thought ahead and made sure it didn't even have a chance of happening. If anyone's wondering, the "almost incident" I put a stop to was when we played a team who had the team name "Indians" (yeah, I know) and I made sure everyone knew that under no circumstance were they to start a specific cheer we had during that game. The cheer was "B-E-A-T, beat those (insert team name)s" and basically I wanted to make sure my team didn't become known as the cheerleaders who encouraged the crowd to "be@t those Indians"😭
@GoliathSaint