→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" ca“” is derived from the 16th century French term “claquer”, which roughly meant “to clap”, and is largely used to refer to a group of individuals hired to give a pre-determined response to a performance, be it positive, negative or anything in between. Individual members of a claque are generally referred to as “claquers” or “claqueurs” and for a brief but significant window in the 19th and early 20th century, they basically controlled how an audience would react to a given play, beginning in Paris and spreading from there Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/04/claque/ Sources: http://www.bartleby.com/81/3634.html http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/arts/dance/designated-cheering-spectators-thrive-at-the-bolshoi-theater.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SxeuAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA51&lpg=PA51&dq=roman+abramov+claque&source=bl&ots=dCAlAk7OjP&sig=Vn6qIaPg0Mec6yAWj6FRnehSRW0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FUE1VdP3A82s7AberIDIBg&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=roman%20abramov%20claque&f=false http://psychology.about.com/od/classicpsychologystudies/p/conformity.htm http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6146/647.abstract http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1902/09/09/page/12/article/laughter-and-tears-to-order https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=E1Z_wqOE3m0C&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=M.+Sauton+claque&source=bl&ots=_6iK0cKy5d&sig=NtDuETLt5Kuq1lSNRmADSjKK67I&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zi41VeHWO4LW7Qav5YD4Ag&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=M.%20Sauton%20claque&f=false http://www.theatrehistory.com/french/claque001.html http://h2g2.com/entry/A53440391 http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=claque Image Credit: https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-42024316/stock-photo-%D0%90%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%8B-%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B8-%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B5%D1%80%D1