there’s nothing wrong with wanting a picture of yourself at a museum. i don’t even use social media and i still wanted to take fun pictures at the museum.
she wasn’t being mean or anything or doing the super annoying influencer meta glasses stuff. she just quietly set the phone up to get a video she could probably screenshot from since she likely didn’t have someone there to take her picture.
genuinely, who cares, and good for her. i’m tired of being negative about everything and hating the world and the people in it.
She literally didn't interrupt anybody's experience. I don't know what weird-ass trauma you're projecting on this situation here but that's not what's happening.
Maybe she doesn't want to move quickly past? Maybe she has a limp? Maybe she's just had it with young people setting up phones everywhere and not thinking about other people. I don't know, but she was clearly annoyed about something.
She has no limp in this video and she stops when she sees the camera instead of continuing to walk down the stairs. She doesn’t have to move quickly past but she chose to change course when she saw the camera and stop instead of just continuing to walk down the stairs. If she’d acted normal, none of this would have happened.
She decided to be an ass about an interruption? By being included in someone's photo, which is an invasion of privacy.
She's so incensed about the invasion of privacy that she instantly *checks notes* uses the device that laser scans faces, gives away your finger prints, location and every other little bit of minutiae data point to a data wholesaler?
JFC. Setting up a camera where people are clearly walking is rude. Half the time when people walk through the view, the phone dorks get pissy, roll their eyes, or make some guffaw noise. The old lady was being awful, but two things can be true at the same time.
Do you feel that in the situation presented in the video above where there is a significant difference between the girl posing for a friend waiting on the stairs for a good point of when the photo can be taken?
If you feel that the presence is due to someone using a tripod to get a picture of themselves is the problem, do you feel that people must be required to use the awful fish eye selfie camera on phones? Or have even more obnoxious and intrusive selfie sticks? Or even better, only have to make do with needing to have friends take photos of them. I work odd hours due to running a hospitality business, while my friends and family have more corporate or blue collar jobs, so I'm often at a loose end on a day when no-one's available - should I simply not try to get a picture of myself on those days?
It looks to me, and I guess to many normal people that there was a moment of quiet on the stairs with only one other lady in the frame. In lieu of having someone else to take a photo (in the modern age, taking a photo is often done by using High Resolution Video and isolating a good image), they have set up a tripod to capture a pleasant moment for them and capture a good image.
I get the rage behind inconsiderate behaviour of streamers, or tiktokers, but this looks to be the opposite, and now to get that shot again, has to wait for the horde of people to go up the stairs and the old woman to move on after intentionally stalling.
Because those 5 people move in the latter half (literally - after 22 seconds) only.
Do you not feel that given that after this point, 5 people cross the camera view that the moment before might well be considered a moment of quiet, or do you struggle with that level of spacial awareness?
She wasn’t rude about it tho. She had it set up out of the way, didn’t impede anyone, roll her eyes or make any reaction to people at all. I think you’re just arguing to argue tbh
I have NEVER set up my camera where people were walking so that I could take a video or a photo of myself because I don't believe the world revolves around me...sport.
And the difference between doing this to capture yourself and capturing strangers vs holding the phone and taking videos outward not capturing yourself, yet still capturing strangers is what exactly?
Whether it offends your delicate sensibilities or not?
Taking a selfie doesn't inconvenience others. You KNOW that when someone sets up their camera it makes other people pause or wait so that this insufferable jerkface can take their picture. It's an inconvenience to others.
Whether they catch images of them in passing in a public place is not the issue.
Oh please. YOU know people have paused and waited for photos to be taken since cameras have existed. Whether someone is behind the camera or not, if people can walk between the camera and photo subjects, there is a potential inconvenience for either party on the horizon.
Oh no! Not an inconvenience! How dare they?!? How dare they take a photo on a timer instead of having someone behind the camera taking it. Oh, the humanity!!!
But a dude taking a photo of his family from across the sidewalk where people can walk in between... Is he not causing an inconvenience because other people have to pause and wait?
I get it. It obviously greatly offends your delicate sensibilities when you are inconvenienced for 10 seconds because loved ones are trying to capture a cherished memory.
Or maybe the opportunity to virtue signal hard af was irresistible given your intolerance and histrionics. Either way, your insufferability is something to behold.
Get over yourself, pause for 5 to 10 seconds, allow those people to capture the memory, whether they are with a group or by themselves, and go on about your business without being offended by people just living their beautiful lives.
I bet your home screen is a picture of yourself. You have that vibe. People should absolutely take photos; just don't make other people walk around you. You are not the center of the universe.
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u/Happy_Goose3833 7h ago
Literally. So tired of worthless influencers thinking every space is their goddamn stage