At approximately 12:30 yesterday afternoon, a Flash Mob Pillow Fight of Doom consisting of 30 people interrupted an otherwise normal school day on campus. The fight occurred in the gazebo on the pedestrian by the new GSU Flash Mob group.

The fight consisted of two teams, the blue team, which approached the scene from Lakeside, and the green team, which entered from the Russell Union Rotunda.

The teams were dressed in either blue or green pajamas with each member carrying a pillow and preparing to fight.

The students that walked through campus were immediately drawn to the event when each of the teams began yelling at each other as they approached.

Once the teams met under the gazebo, a few of the members started to insult the members of the opposing team by telling “your mom jokes.” As the teams hurled insults, the blue team’s leader, freshman Mark Bragg, shouted, “What is your profession” in order to terminate the jokes and allow the fighting to begin.

Freshman Samantha Hairston, an accounting student who stopped to watch the fight, was surprised by the action.

“I’m confused as to what is going on right now, but I’m really excited because I want to join,” she said.

All of the members of each team shouted their war cries as they hit each other with pillows. Members of the group dropped out one by one as they met their death to a final blow.

Junior Demetris McNelly witnessed the scene.

“It was hilarious and awesome,” he said, “but I think they should hit a bunch of random people who aren’t expecting it in order to get more people into it, like a professor maybe. They should march through campus around to different classrooms and gather people as they go to join in.”

According to Lydia Luke, the writer of the script for yesterday’s event, even though the green team was last to die, every member of each group died, resulting in a neutral fight with no true winner.

Luke is the founder of the Flash Mob group.

“I came up with the idea for this group because I like to make people happy, it’s what I do. I like to bring joy to this world,” she said. “I just woke up one morning and decided to do something that can get more students involved. I knew that flash mobs make people happy, so I decided that our events should happen during a normal school day on campus.”

Bragg, a member of the group since its beginning, expanded on the origination of their new group.

“Lydia had seen flash mob videos and began getting really excited about it, so she decided to start a group on Facebook, which spread the word,” he said. “The group grew a lot faster than we thought it would. There is just more and more people all the time.”

Bragg said that the purpose of the group is to “have everyone experience spontaneous freedom.”

“I look forward to these events as it allows me to focus through all the stress [of school]. It gives me an adrenaline rush, and I have a blast with my friends. I would like to see everyone not be scared of the world as this group helps people reveal themselves and find out who they really are. This group is meant to have fun, but it actually has a deeper meaning,” he said.

As many students remember, the GSU Flash Mob not only participated in a pillow fight yesterday but also came up with the idea to do a cookie monster flash through Lakeside last week. The Stampede of the Cookies ran through campus dressed in cardboard cookie costumes while freshman Brea Shaffer, dressed as Cookie Monster, ran after them. The mob ran through Lakeside after their preview through campus.

“It was really exciting, but it was really, really hot,” Shaffer said. “I definitely enjoyed it though.”

Thirty people participated in the Stampede of the Cookies. Luke said that she wanted an easy and cheap costume idea for the cookie flash mob and decided to center it around Halloween.

She even came up with an instructional video on how to properly assemble a cookie costume out of cardboard.

Another event that the group participated in two weeks ago as their first act in their new group was Russell Union Freeze Out. Thirty-five members in Russell Union stood in a frozen position for approximately three minutes.

According to Luke, over 300 members have already joined the Flash Mob’s Facebook group. She plans to think of new ideas they can do in the future because the group plans to host flash mob events once a week throughout the year.

“I think doing these flash mobs makes people want to participate,” said Luke. “Hopefully we will have a purpose, and in the future we can work toward an actual goal.”

The group holds meetings every Monday at 9:30p.m. at the Russell Union Rotunda. The members collectively plan future flash mobs and practice for the upcoming events.