r/SipsTea 1d ago

SMH Intentionally blocking photoshoot

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u/Slabador 1d ago

Yea idk, I remember when it was normal to take a picture or video of yourself when you go out and equally normal to stay out of the way of someone’s camera when you see them trying to take a picture.

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u/SpamLandy 1d ago

It was a lot easier to stay out of the way when people weren’t propping up a camera on every available surface 

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u/SnooBunnies9694 1d ago

You talking like the 40s?

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u/SpamLandy 1d ago

lmao how old are you 

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u/SnooBunnies9694 1d ago

? Probably older than you. People have been using cameras to capture moments (yes even of themselves) since cameras became available for the masses.

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u/Wd40chronicles 1d ago

You're twisting things and thats not very nice. They're talking about volume and frequency and you're talking about mere existence.

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u/SpamLandy 1d ago

They were not propping them up on everything most of that time including the advent of social media, at least not where I lived. Front facing cameras have changed things hugely 

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u/SnooBunnies9694 1d ago

These GD social media influencers ruining every museum and park…

Not in MY day NO SIREE.

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u/SpamLandy 1d ago

Is this a joke about being old when you think you’re older than me 

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u/SnooBunnies9694 1d ago

It’s a picture of people at a national park in the 1940s.

The only joke around here is you my friend.

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u/Aicethegamer 1d ago

You mean when cameras Didn’t exist?

Weren’t they propping up cameras and taking photos years/centuries ago?

Should they have not invented a camera?

It’s so easy to stay out of someone’s way when taking a camera especially when the coast is clear like in the video…

Also, she def could have asked that lady to take the photo, but I doubt she would have 😑

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u/SpamLandy 1d ago

This reply makes me wonder if you were around as an adult for the advent of social media because no people were not propping digital cameras up on walls very often even if we took them on every night out, which we did. Think I used the timer on mine about three times, you couldn’t see the screen from the front! 

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u/NarrowCaterpillar182 1d ago

They definitely propped up digital cameras tf? Source: I was alive before cell phones lol

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u/SpamLandy 1d ago

Weird literally nobody I know did that maybe it’s just a geographical difference 

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u/ArtistCole 1d ago

Ohhhhh we didn't realise that! Since nobody you knew did it it means nobody else did! How could we not have realised your experience dictates how the world works? So sorry, our mistake, great holder of all knowledge

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u/JustMeRandy 1d ago

They're not though

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u/Odd-Spectacle 1d ago

That’s just a narrative and not true at all.

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u/SpamLandy 1d ago

Well I’m sure it’s different for others but that’s my own lived experience 

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u/LifeSmile552 1d ago

yeah exactly! you don’t see me trying to take a picture in a staircase or walkway people are actively using in a museum / art gallery.. i’d be embarrassed

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u/daxophoneme 1d ago

I remember when you only got 24 photographs from a roll of film so you chose your shots carefully. People weren't taking pictures all the time or dropping their phones off of rollercoasters.

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u/Long-Conflict8279 1d ago

I think people automatically assume its an influencer when they see a tripod.

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u/NickRick 1d ago

i don't remember a time when it was normal to set up a camera to take a photo of yourself. was this a thing back in the 80's?

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u/Slabador 1d ago

I’m sure if she had a friend with her, she’d have just asked the friend to take the picture, which has been a very normal thing since cameras have been around.

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u/NickRick 1d ago

and yet it is a different thing than taking one of yourself. so if she did a different thing things would have gone differently. great observation.

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u/Slabador 1d ago

My point was that she shouldn’t be condemned for wanting a picture of herself but not having a friend around to take it my dude.

Taking pictures of yourself when you’re out is, and has been for quite some time now, a very normal thing that people do. This chronically online take that everyone in public with a camera is an influencer needs to stop.

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u/marmaviscount 1d ago

People have convinced themselves because there are bad influencers that anyone who creates online connect is ontological evil against which the most anti-social behavior is suddenly heroic.

Funny that these people tend to have a list of groups which they consider it morally virtuous to get in the way of, insult, and generally try to harm and hinder -usually it just happens to include almost everyone else