This Man Was Body-Shamed, And Now Hundreds Of Women Are Throwing Him A Party

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This is a great Internet story: When an unnamed man was shamed for dancing in public, a tribe of body-positive women launched a Twitter search to throw him the ultimate dance party in California.

They found him -- and he said yes.

It all started when an anonymous person posted a surreptitious shot at the man, with photos attached, on the message board 4Chan.

"Spotted this specimen trying to dance the other week," the poster wrote. "He stopped when he saw us laughing."

Oh, and Pharrell might come too.

A screenshot of the post, labeled "Why I Hate Children," was uploaded to Imgur by the user FrozenBadger. "I find this behavior fucking despicable," FrozenBadger wrote. "If you're out there big man, fuck those kids. Keep dancing."

Most Imgur commenters shared FrozenBadger's sentiments, sending messages of support to the anonymous dancing man like "Don't ever let them dull your sparkle big boy!" and "I wish we could find him and tell him he's awesome."

One writer decided to do just that. Cassandra Fairbanks, who goes by the nameCassandra Rules, launched a Twitter campaign to #FindDancingMan.

“I decided to tweet it and our offer in the hopes if he did see it, he would see something positive instead of a bunch of people upset,” she told Buzzfeed.

She issued an invitation he couldn't refuse.

Soon enough, the Dancing Man was spotted with a charming dinosaur in London, and he connected with Fairbanks.

Dancing Man confirmed his identity with a picture, and accepted the dance party invitation from his brand new Twitter account, @Dancingmanfound. He wrote that he's "Not a tweeter normally!"

Dancing Man, identified so far only as a Londoner named Sean, said he will be in Kiev for the next two weeks, but he plans to get down in Los Angeles shortly after. And it shouldn't cost him a dime - a GoFundMe page raised $4,629 in just two hours to pay for his trip, and donations are still coming in.

In the meantime, he's apparently started working out in preparation for his groove marathon with the body-positive ladies of Los Angeles.

"Gossip Girl's" Ed Westwick tweeted his support.

Oh, and Pharrell might come too.

"Thanks for the interest and the tweet," Dancing Man told Pharrell. "Today is a day I have never imagined would happen."

We can't wait for the party.

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