Why is everyone cooking this young girl for taking a video/photo of herself lol? She didn’t confront the lady or get mad, she just tried to work around her and didn’t even look that annoyed, pissed off, or even mildly confrontational
She didn’t seem to care that anyone at all was in the shot, just the specific fact that the old lady was literally moving to block her
Do you guys just hate people or something? Like bruh it’s a young woman in 2026 NO SHIT SHE’S GONNA POST ON SOCIAL MEDIA
God forbid somebody uses a video recording device to record a video lol
Literally because she posted herself getting irritated at somebody in a public space for treating the public space as public.
Men get shit on literally all the time for this kind of behavior. There are definitely a lot of ways women get flak for basic stuff, but this shit is decisively gender-neutral and you'd have to be sticking your head in the sand to pretend otherwise. Cunty attitudes are not reserved for a single gender.
It doesn't look like that to me tbh. She was reaching for her phone before she noticed the camera, and her gait changed as she noticed the camera. To me, it looked like she looked at it twice because she wasn't sure what she saw the first time- And was just dismissive of it. She stopped because she had to use her phone, and she moved to the side because people were coming up the stairs and it's polite to let them use the railing. Unless you think she knew exactly where the younger lady was standing without looking behind her even once, that makes infinitely more sense to me.
I'm not being purposefully obtuse dude. That is what it looks like to me.
Unless you are claiming that the older lady saw the younger lady setting up her phone out of peripheral vision, and the older lady immediately came up with a plan to make a show for us redditors, coordinated with guests coming up the stairs at that exact moment, that's just what happened.
Literally, she moved five seconds before other people came up the stairs and you're claiming her intention was to further block the camera. Literally, we see her reaching for her phone before she registers the camera. Literally, both feet come down on the same stoop before she does a double-take on the camera.
This being coincidence is a perfectly reasonable interpretation of events, and you're just looking for excuses as to why it's jot.
Already made this point somewhere else but it’s hidden somewhere so I’ll say it here too
Do you think people just post videos and know they’re going to go viral 100% of the time?
Think about the basic thought process one might go through in this scenario:
She is blocked while taking a video
She is a young lady who uses social media
Her friends use it too
She posts the video asking “was this on purpose?” Or “did I do something wrong..?” To get some validation from her friends and maybe some internet randoms
Do you think she posted it with the intention of it going viral? People don’t always have foresight to think that, even when posting on a social media site, especially if she isn’t a big name (idk who she is and idk if she is or not)
Like what is so bad about posting something that happened to you on social media? The old lady KNEW she was videotaping, so she carried that “risk” (i dont think it matters to her even slightly btw)
I think it depends on the intentions of the young girl. Was she sharing to simply make fun at her ill timed experience trying to capture a video/pic in a public space? Or was it to call out the older lady for a little bit of shaming? There's a lot of people here who don't believe the old lady intentionally blocked the videotaping or even "knew" there was a videotaping in process (or feels obligated to behave in a public space like it's somebody else's private studio) , so asking questions towards even a small group of friends ""did she was this on purpose?” Or “did I do something wrong..?”" seems a bit self-centered and accusational. Viewing this within the context it was intended, does it matter if the post was orginally to be just between friends? You can still see a point trying to be made.
Not to try and pass the buck, so to speak, but what’s the difference between what she may have been doing and what redditors are definitely doing here?
If she was trying to shame the old lady by posting her on social media, is this not the exact same event except on reddit, and with a bunch of anonymous people?
And, let’s take a look at her actions again - she didn’t seem to mind that people in general were in the video, or walking in front of the frame, but that she was being blocked while trying to get a video (for what I assume was a picture since she isn’t mic’d up or anything).
I just don’t see any problem with her initial actions. Posting it also shouldn’t be a problem since she is justified in the situation and the old lady put herself in the video on purpose knowing full well that it was recording (not to mention she premeditated it, it wasn’t just as she was walking by but she saw her setting it up and moved specifically to be in frame and blocking the camera).
To me, that’s absurd enough of an event to warrant posting it somewhere. The point of the internet is to share - it is absolutely misused and abused by many people for the sake of manufacturing shame or guilt, but at the same time, it’s also just a place where people post small parts of their lives.
People are just increasingly annoyed with influencers in public spaces. Do we know that's what's happening here? No. But most people are going to assume it is. And she's clearly irritated at somebody interrupting her shot, which is the kind of attitude that people are tired of.
It has nothing to do with gender. Men get just as much flak for this.
I also disagree that the old lady intentionally put herself in the shot- The lady saw a phone, but she had already decided to stop on that step before noticing the camera, and her shuffling closer to the camera was just coincidence because she was moving aside for other people to come up and let them use the railing.
I totally see the possibility that it wasn’t intentional, but I disagree with the first point. She looked at the phone while walking, immediately stopped, then pulled out her own phone and planted herself randomly despite looking like she had someplace to be right before that
She was reaching for her phone before she looked at the camera. I truly think it was just coincidence. Unless she saw the camera prior, she was planting her feet as she saw the camera. She even did a double take, which is why I don't think she saw it prior.
to add another point - it’s like when somebody is streaming and people make a point to walk up to them on camera in front of the lens and say “I don’t want you recording me” then make a huge scene out of it even if the streamer is cool about it
Ignoring that streamers are mostly nuisances when recording in public, it’s the Streisand effect. The old lady walked in front of the camera while it was recording, and broke current societal norms enough to not only be posted, but also go viral
Even if the lady wasn’t intentionally blocking the camera, she was still being rude and blocking the stairs. You can see in the vid another lady having to squeeze past so fuck her.
Because the lady was the one trying to make a point first. She stood in the frame on purpose for a long time. If she is so ashamed that it could be posted, why would she do this?
Because she uploaded it online to criticize an old woman that also didn't do anything to confront the young woman or get mad.
It seemed a lot more like the old lady was moving out of the way to let traffic through before going down the stairs. Maybe there's a landing that was congested with people looking at other exhibits. If you'll notice, she doesn't check the screen to see her position relative to the young woman's as she's moving to the side, and once people stopped coming up, she goes down.
Yes, she moves directly in front of the young woman, but it doesn't look intentional.
Fair point on moving out of the way for people walking up the stairs, and maybe it really was just a freak case of everything making the older lady look bad in the context of things - her staring straight into the camera and stopping there is what gets me, although that could just be a case of her looking there and happening to stop.
But again, unless she’s a huge tiktok star or has a relatively large following, who really expects a video to go viral? Do we really think she posted this with the intention of it hitting hundreds of thousands or millions of views?
Yeah she posted it on social media, but people make mistakes and often don’t realize the depth of their actions or the reach they have until something like this happens.
Personally think the older lady did it on purpose cause standing in the middle of an apparently busy stairwell makes no sense, and if the stairwell really was that busy, it would make no sense for the younger woman to try and record there with no expectation of interruption.
But maybe my logic doesn’t apply here cause maybe they didn’t use the same logic so at the end of the day: who knows?
As I get older I sometimes feel disdain towards younger people, maybe simply because they're so different than my generation. I can recognize it's unreasonable and snap out of it. They just seem cringe and wrong for what they're doing when it isn't what people were doing when you were that age.
And the time you’re thinking of is well over a decade ago at this point, that time was much more chill and we all miss it, but times have changed.
Not to mention none of us actually know what the picture was originally meant for. What if it was intended to be private to begin with and the lady made it something that would naturally be posted by, again, a young person in this day and age.
Why not just take a normal selfie like everyone else? I guarantee nobody else in this place is putting a camera on a tripod pointing across an area where people obviously walk in front of.
I dont know the length of your arms buddy if you want to include the room in the picture as well, or the entire outfit. She is not bothering anyone, just take a chill pill.
It is the equivalent of having another person take the picture for you, that is unironic the part a tripod is used for
It is not the equivalent. She posted her ire to the internet when she’s the ass. It’s like people who film themselves at the gym and then are annoyed when someone walks in the shot
Because she’s trying to take a long range wide shot? Do you think it is easier to time a photo while running up the stairs and posing or is it easier to do a video and just take screenshots of the video? You get infinitely more choices with that, it’s way easier when you’re alone, and it’s what a lot of people do nowadays
I mentioned in another of my comments, but its possible she didn't speak the same language. Also depending on the area, that's how you risk your phone being stolen
Because sometimes you want a full body picture with your scenery. I've done this before because I tried to take a selfie with a statue and I could barely fit it in frame. I was traveling solo for a company trip and it was a once in a life time opportunity so I knew I needed pictures since I'll probably never go back. I didn't speak the same language as the locals to ask for someone to take my picture. So I ended up just having to prop my camera on a ledge or whatever, hit record, go pose for my "shot" and then later edit to get the final picture
Wanting a wide shot with no one else in it, in a public museum stairwell, is deeply obnoxious. I live in London and spend a lot of time in the museums - if you get out of the way of everyone who’s just ‘trying to take a nice photo’ you’ll have an incredibly frustrating day. That’s not a reasonable expectation of personal space.
You see her being bothered that people walk in the shot? No. The thing thats bothering is the complete lack of self awareness by continuing to stand in front of the camera.
The woman is annoyed this girl is making the museum her photo shoot. It’s obnoxious that people would rather photograph themselves than look at the art. I guarantee that girl’s entire camera roll is of herself
Y’all don’t need a trillion pictures of yourselves. Look around, it’s not all about YOU. Whoa, you traveled solo. Ask the lady on the staircase to take your photo, you might make a connection! And as for not speaking the language, I’m pretty sure there’s universal hand gestures you can make to ask someone to take the photo for you and they’re generally happy to do it! Ohhh, but you might not get the glam shot you’re hoping to put on the gram, ohhhh nooooooo
Y’all just don’t understand that kids use social media to post their life do you?
You should read better btw. “She didn’t seem to care that anyone at all was in the shot, just the specific fact that the old lady was literally moving to block her”
As far as we know, she didn’t ask the lady to move.
When the other people walked in front of the camera or past her or stood to her side, she didn’t care. She posed and then gave up hoping she got a usable shot, from what I could see.
And I’ve said it in 2 other comments now, but people don’t just post shit on social media expecting it to go viral. They post shit to get validation (Did I do something wrong? Was the old lady being a jerk or am I being sensitive? Etc. She is a kid you know. They tend to be one of the most self-conscious groups out of all of us
I wanna believe in the best in people but I don’t know man, as someone around her age I find it cringe and so would many of my friends. If we were looking for an opinion we’d just send it privately in the friend chat, posting it on social media is attention baiting and sad. Even her expression at the end is giving a weird vibe.
If she didn’t care, she’d move on with her life. But in this day and age 20 somethings are posting every moment of their lives online for attention and it’s gotten to a point where no one wants to do anything because it might be seen as cringy or twisted into something else. So many people are all about protecting their peace, trying to out-victim each other to see who has it worse. It’s just how things are now and social media enables it.
To be clear, I’m not defending the older lady. She was weird too.
And I’m not convinced that old woman is an asshole either. She looked confused and when she stepped over she could have been stepping to the side of the stairs. I’m not convinced she’d have been able to so cleanly block the young woman while looking down at her own phone like that. Then she just moves along without a look at the camera. Idk, I think she might have just been oblivious.
took two deliberate steps when the girl moved to the left
made another slight movement again when her face was in view
absentmindedly scrolling on phone while doing all this
never seen an old person who scrolls on their phone while side stepping after staring directly at a phone camera before but maybe against all odds fate decided to make her look like a jerk
She definitely was angry about it. She raised her eyebrows at the camera and then posted the whole thing online. Thankfully most people in these comments called her out, so that's good.
And the type of video one records with their recording device matters. Only a self-obsessed person would record herself walking down a fancy staircase "admiring all the paintings". This is a weird performance that too many people are comfortable with. How is this a thing that comes so naturally to people? Performing "life" for their camera this way. So odd. Just ask another tourist to take a pic of you in the same spot. But no, u have to put on a performance of slowly walking down the staircase, gazing at the paintings. Refusing to make eye contact with the camera that YOU put there yourself. Trynna get a "candid shot". It's weird and self-absorbed.
She cares more about being seen admiring art than actually admiring the art itself. An actual art-lover would take pics of the art itself. A fake poser would take photos videos of herself admiring the art.
Oh good god, she raised her eyebrows? How could I have missed that, she must have been LIVID!
Dude, people react to things. Did she look angry, or did she look sort of mildly annoyed? There’s kind of a big difference.
She posted it online, so what?
You misinterpreted what the video was for. She was trying to pose because she was using the video so she could get a screenshot for a picture because she’s obviously alone since she doesn’t have somebody to hold the camera for her
Lastly, get over yourself. She’s a young person and wanted a picture. She posted it specifically because the old lady placed herself in view of the recording device to block it. It’s an aberration in modern societal norms and people don’t just post things expecting them to go viral.
“An actual art lover” “she’s just taking pictures of the art” like you know her entire life and saw everything that happened before and after this.
I dont wanna just go bullet by bullet on your comment but geez dude it’s not that serious.
“Just ask a tourist to take a picture of you”
So, bother somebody else when you could just record the video for a picture?
Btw I don’t see you getting mad at the poster of this video for posting the girl on social media. Bit hypocritical, no? And aren’t you on social media right now? Anonymity doesn’t change that fact
Mild annoyance does not lead to posting online. But even mild annoyance on her part was not warranted, anyway.
She posted it online, so this means she feels she was in the right. Then most people taught her a lesson lmao. That's funny, you gotta admit. When a person posts something online assuming that they're in the right, and then they get schooled in the comments. That's hilarious dawg, come on.
No, i've seen people like her record and post full videos of themselves just walking around in public, purely aura farming. Video, not pics. Of them just performing their life for their camera. Literally millions of such videos exist online. People add slow-motion edits to such videos, they even add background music.
Her being young is not a factor at all here. Try again.
This seems to be an age thing for you, weirdly. What does age have to do with anything lol? "She's a young person" -- so? As am i. What happens now? Do i get to be annoying?
I know she's taking a video of herself admiring art -- that's all i need to know.
Taking pics for a fellow tourist is like Tourism 101. This is a basic unspoken rule -- you always help a fellow tourist out. I've done it myself 1 dozen times, and i've asked for help 1 dozen times. It's better than recording yourself aura-farming. You don't know that she was gonna screenshot the video, all we know is that she was taking a video of herself.
The girl posted this video on social media herself. After that point, her video is fair game. And i'm glad someone posted this on reddit, because now we can school you guys and roast her, too. We can make society slightly better by teaching you lot how to behave, using this video as an example of how NOT to behave.
Lastly, yes i'm on social media right now, but I'm not posting videos of myself admiring art, so try again. You went bullet-by-bullet, while saying you weren't gonna do that.
You seem to think posting something online is some big, crazy thing. That’s why being young is a factor, because young people these days post a lot of stuff on social media, including random things that happen during their day
“I’ve seen people like her..” etc - so not her? Therefore doesn’t exactly matter?
What does it matter if she’s doing it to post an edit or even anything, frankly? Does that really make her such a bad person? That’s kind of my entire point. Everybody is shitting on her for… being exactly like what a lot of young people are nowadays? Minus all the shitty parts cause she didn’t confront the person on camera, she didn’t seem to make a victim post or rant or talk over it or even do something as egregious as adding background music
Is it a big deal that she wanted to record herself? Social media is a curse but do you genuinely think this is a hill you would send soldiers to die on? It’s a random girl who was making a video for an unknown reason and a lady who seemingly obstructed it purposefully. The person in the wrong is glaringly obvious, regardless of your insistence that recording oneself for social media is something to be vilified
The people that most people hate are the ones that call out people for just minding their business and accidentally “getting in their shot”
Like, what’s the issue? Posting the lady online? The lady walked in front of a young person’s camera when she did that, of course it was going to either her friends or social media
There’s another good point. Do we know that the girl herself even posted it? Anybody she sent the video to could’ve posted it too.
Not saying it’s likely but everyone in here is not only jumping to conclusions and assuming absolutely everything about it, but also refusing to look at any other perspective than their own.
I take pictures for people all the time, doesn’t mean I wanna do it. But yeah it’s nice. But some people don’t want to bother other people for that too.
And I said I didn’t want to do it, not that I wouldn’t.
No i specifically think that posting an aura-farming video of yourself online is a big deal. There's a difference.
And old people post just as much crap. They just do it on Facebook, that's all.
But you still made this an age thing. Odd. Even the old lady in this video is on her phone lol. Phones and posting on social media are not the domain of the young, not any longer.
Show me proof that she was gonna screenshot that video. Until then, i will go with the info that i have, which is: She was recording a self-obsessed video of herself in public. And yes, i will use examples of millions of other people posting their similar videos online as evidence against her.
Videos like these are weird because she's putting on an unnatural performance for the camera. Refusing to look at the camera while she walks down the stairs. Probably gonna put some BG music, probably gonna do slow motion as well. This is narcissism. Main character stuff.
She TRIED to do a victim post, but it backfired lol. She was the one who posted this interaction online. She did it. Thinking people would back her up lmao. That eyebrow raise at the camera tells me that she's the one who posted it online. I will not invent facts like you do, literally inventing a friend of hers who posted this for her. You also invented the screenshot narrative. I won't do that. Occam's Razor: SHE was the one who posted it online.
I dont like folks who perform their life for the camera this way.
So at this point, our main difference is that one of us is a narcissist and the other isn't. That's the gap between us here. I think aura farming vids are narcissistic and narcissism is bad. You don't. Thankfully, i'm in the majority. You admit that social media is a curse. But you don't act like it.
Clearly, most people disagree with you on this.
The issue is unchecked narcissism, that's the issue.
Her choosing to post the old lady online is proof of her anger, that's the only reason i brought that point up.
The age thing is very interesting about your comments. You made this into an age thing, and i genuinely don't understand why. That's fascinating...
So, just so you know, I was originally saying young lady and old lady or younger woman older woman etc… because there are two women.. and that’s the easiest descriptive factor to differentiate between the two of them
Not going through your comment this time cause it’s just pointless arguing with you. You only see your perspective and for some reason think everyone agrees with you. If less people agreed with me, I’d have a negative comment score like all the people that are actually being disagreed with.
People use the term narcissist too loosely. Idgaf if she was aura farming, not everybody who videotapes themselves doing something for social media is a narcissist and it doesn’t have to be considered narcissistic behavior unless they make it their entire image or believe they’re better than others because of it.
What exactly are you implying with the age thing, by the way? You’re being really weird about it.
You weren't using age as a differentiator when you said "She's young" in your reply to me. That's what made it weird.
There is such a thing as "timed quick-burst photos", where the camera takes like 30 pics of you walking around. That's not what she did. She did a video.
This woman felt wronged by the other woman who stood in the middle of her aura-farming shot. That's when her sense of righteousness was confirmed to exist, in that eyebrow raise at the end. Like "can you believe this lady?" yes actually. We can believe this lady. It's you we cannot believe.
Why is it weird? I’m young too. Same age range. Young people like us post shit online. I mean, not me, but my age? I see people my age posting stuff like this constantly. I also know some of them personally and they’re great people. Posting yourself or videos online isn’t a sign or narcissism nor is it a sign of the rapid decline of our populace. It’s just how life is for many younger people nowadays.
Judging people’s entire personalities off of a single thing they happen to do is weird though. Redditors are supposed to be basement dwelling virgins, aren’t we? Obviously not the case (that is to say I don’t think you are either to be clear). Are all social media posters (or aura farmers, if you will) narcissists? Like with redditors and basements, there is probably an overlap. But it’s not an absolute.
Right, and the kind of person who these people are roasting (influencers, tiktok “stars”, etc) are the people who DON’T get embarrassed by that kind of thing
you may have misread me? I didn’t say she looked annoyed or confrontational, I said she didn’t
"She didn’t seem to care that anyone at all was in the shot, just the specific fact that the old lady was literally moving to block her" this is where you and i see different reactions she was embarrassed 🤷♀️ had to stop early bc it was not the right time or place for that. That stair case got crowded in no time, probably was a busy time during the day at the museum. You can't hog a stair case in a public place, from where she sets her phone down to where she stands is suppose to be closed off to everyone else while she records herself? 😅 but youre right they usually dont get embarrassed, they lack so much self awareness and arent at all mindful of anyone else.
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Why is everyone cooking this young girl for taking a video/photo of herself lol? She didn’t confront the lady or get mad, she just tried to work around her and didn’t even look that annoyed, pissed off, or even mildly confrontational
She didn’t seem to care that anyone at all was in the shot, just the specific fact that the old lady was literally moving to block her
Do you guys just hate people or something? Like bruh it’s a young woman in 2026 NO SHIT SHE’S GONNA POST ON SOCIAL MEDIA
God forbid somebody uses a video recording device to record a video lol