Courtesy of Vice magazine, here is a breakdown of one of the most heartless practical jokes in history. In a feat of astonishing logistical bastardry, a group of internet pranksters managed to compel hordes of single men to exhibit their loneliness in the heart of New York City. It really is begging to be adapted for the screen.

Read on to be thoroughly appalled:
FOREVER ALONE INVOLUNTARY FLASHMOB