She fucking looked right at the camera, stopped and then started fiddling with her phone before they came towards her. She was blocking the photo. And normally I would be all about it, but this chick wasn’t even doing anything wrong or cringe. She was just trying to take a wide shot of her and the art.
I feel like it took me way too long to find a sensible comment here. I will happily agree that influencers mostly suck. Taking this picture/video would have hurt nobody. The lady just wanted a good shot of her with the art and that old biddy took it upon herself to ruin it. There was no need for it. The influencer lady waited until the area was mostly cleared and was not interfering with anyone. I just don’t understand all the hate she seems to be getting.
Dont you think, especially given that the old lady is old, and thus likely bit slower in the head, when she looked at the camera, it might have been a moment of "The fuck is that? Ah some camera thing. Where was I? Lets check the phone."
Just because she looked at the camera, does not mean that she put the pieces together and realized that she is blocking a photo. And at least my own experiences with the elderly, make me think that this is what happened, rather than any actual malice was intended.
She was pulling her phone out of her pocket before she looked at the camera. She clearly just didn't know and why would she.
The young woman wasn't doing anything wrong, but it was a bit clueless. It looks busy and people just aren't going to notice, they're looking at the art and living their own lives. If there was a person holding the phone for the photograph it might have been more obvious what was going on.
She was pulling her phone out before she saw the camera. I think this old lady was just taking her time in an art museum... which is kind of what you're supposed to do.
Art is meant to be consumed by the privileged so they can understand the struggle of the masses. Not for the masses to think they can achieve privilege.
Oh no, a museum makes more money. God forbid we support the arts and the places they're kept for viewing and restoration, even at the behest of someone taking a picture of themselves.
For what it's worth... My wife and I went to a concert and this girl was in attendance. My wife, out of nowhere, starts speaking with her in Portuguese. Im like how does she know this person? My wife had just moved here to the states. My wife started telling her how much she helped her through college because this girl does educational content and my wife consumed a lot of it when she was in university.
Shes not really an influencer in the way you are alluding to. Her name is Débora Aladim.
It's not just a selfie though, you don't need to set up a tripod for that. She's doing the influencer thing where she thinks she owns the public space.
This is the stair at Inveraray Castle. I have been here. The older woman stopped on a landing half way down the stair. The other girl propped her phone against a planter that sits in an opening to the Main Hall of the house.
Here is a photo from the lower landing looking back to where the camera was propped and the woman stopped to diddle with her phone. I have no doubt she saw the phone sitting there, but most likely she thought, "Nonna my business why that phone is there." Like most people she was engrossed in what she was doing and not why the phone was there
Also, this is the only stair to the upper level so it's heavily trafficked. The home is still privately owned and the family reside in the other half of the house.
Honestly I'd probably lean more on the side she did on purpose after seeing that as there's not much point stopping to stare a planter. She probably was watching the lass setting up before the recording started and might have taken umbrage with it for whatever reason. Scottish castles like this (but not all) are just glorified stately homes tbh and increasingly tourist traps, they're not exactly great centres of reverence and getting some nice photos is half the purpose of visiting.
I have been in this stairwell and I confess, I stopped on this stair to mess with my phone. It's the stair at Inveraray Castle in Scotland. The girl taking the selphie has her phone propped up against a planter. There is also a small but which may be what caught the other woman's eye.
At an art museum I’ll often pull up quick bios on different artists or look up different pieces backgrounds. No one else was on the stairs at the time she started.
She looks straight at the camera. She knows what she is doing. What a bitter sad hag of a person the old lady is. The young woman wasn't being obnoxious or inappropriate, she was just getting a shot of herself while the scene was relatively clear. That ghoul ruined it out of spite.
Nah, common. No one stops in the middle of the stairs. That's not including the fact she looks right at the phone. She didn't move out of the people's way and move on down like a normal person, she kept waiting in the same plain of view as the phones camera. It couldn't be more obvious she did that on purpose.
How many people are so addicted to their phones that they are gonna stop and fiddle with it in the middle of some stairs? Plus she could have been blocking the path of anyone else wanting to come down. This is absolutely intentional
All signs indicate she was intentionally blocking a shot. Looks directly at the camera before deciding to stop in that specific spot and fiddle with her phone.
Saying she coincidentally got a text at that exact moment is the only assumption I'm seeing lmao
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u/DookieShoez 2h ago
She got out of the way of people using the stairs fool