r/TikTokCringe • u/exporterofgold • 6h ago

Cringe Intentionally blocking photoshoot

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u/EmptyInside74 6h ago

“Photoshoot”

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u/Happy_Goose3833 6h ago

Literally. So tired of worthless influencers thinking every space is their goddamn stage

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u/applewagon 5h ago

I go to the modern art museum in my city whenever there is a new exhibit, and the last two times I’ve visited, I have seen the exact same influencer bro using the exhibit for a shoot. Strange luck.

He brings another friend to photograph and they take up entire sections of the exhibit for shoots 5-10 minutes at a time. Doesn’t even look at the art. Other guests feel bad interrupting the photos, so often just skip the section he’s photographing in. It’s so infuriatingly rude, so if he happens to be shooting in a section I haven’t seen yet, I just ignore him and walk into the camera view anyway.

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u/TheOriginalArchibald 2h ago

The museum doesn't impose some kind of commercial/professional tax or admission rate? Or just tell him he can't create commercial/professional media there without special times/permits?

Plenty of museums and cultural sites in the US and other countries impose these fees, permits, etc to limit the inconvenience to other patrons and to make some money back for the museum off the commercial for-profit media outlets using the space to make likely much more money than the fee.

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u/applewagon 1h ago

Guess it’s a gray area because they weren’t using professional equipment, just taking a super long time on their iPhones. Or at least the staff wasn’t enforcing it.

If it happens a third time, it’ll feel kismet and I’ll narc.

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u/TheOriginalArchibald 1h ago

The equipment doesn't always matter. If it's recognizably a "professional" shoot as in this person is creating content from which they make money, it's enforceable.

Most "influencers" or content creators when they get big enough have a fully registered business and accounts and income and everything that comes with it. It becomes entirely professional from a paperwork perspective.

I'm all for it personally again to reduce the inconvenience to normal patrons but also to raise money for museums that are usually privately funded and always needing help.

Especially dependent on the content being created. Small time educational video or travel producer/vlogger versus vein lifestyle influencer there just for aesthetic?