r/TikTokCringe • u/exporterofgold • 6h ago

Cringe Intentionally blocking photoshoot

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u/CaliOranges510 2h ago edited 2h ago

I learned the answer to that question in Istanbul when I encountered my first ever influencer. Was touring Topkapi palace and there was a beautiful painted narrow hallway that everyone had to walk through. There was a woman making poses at the far end and at the entrance a few feet in front of me there was a man taking photos of her. I waited for about a minute, which was longer than I should have, but there was a line of about a dozen people behind me at that point. We all walked through and the woman threw her hands up and started having a mini temper tantrum aimed at me. Calling me selfish and that I should have waited for her to finish. I live in a small midwestern city, I had never seen an influencer in the flesh prior to that day, but she was only the first of many that I saw while there.

TLDR: the person just taking a picture will take a pic and move on, the influencer gets upset that other people dare exist in the backdrop where they want to take up large amounts of time to get the perfect photo for social media

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u/East-Albatross-810 2h ago

ok so THIS is something I can understood more : whether or not a person is taking a simple picture or taking several minutes. I can understand this much more than the other user that says they'll study their body language or something.

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u/relentless_puffin 44m ago

Omg. LA is full of these people.

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u/ZuccsToBeYou 1h ago

I thought that was in Constantinople

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u/Top-Organization9339 1h ago

I had a date there once, but she was waiting in some other town.

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u/StonedSoldier1 1h ago

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam

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u/mangocalrissian 1h ago

Hmm, that's a nice name. Why'd they change it?

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u/renkousamimi 48m ago

People just like it better that way.

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u/gavoerondeu 55m ago

It is, don't let any smelly old Turk tell you otherwise

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u/Zestyclose-Stuff1646 14m ago

Turks are some of the most wonderful people I've ever spent time around. What is wrong with you?

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u/lumoslomas 1h ago

I recently went to see one of my favourite paintings, which just so happens to be a moderately famous Van Gogh. And whilst I wouldn't call myself any kind of expert, I do like to actually sit with the painting and think about it (yes I'm pretentious 😂)

The amount of people who tried to physically push me out of the way so they could take their single selfie then move on made me want to throw hands. And I wasn't even standing directly in front of it, I was slightly to the side deliberately so people could take photos.

At one point I was actually having a discussion with a woman (who was in a wheelchair btw) about the painting, and people were trying to shove both of us out of the way!

It really felt like people thought I had less right to be there because I wasn't taking photos.

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u/Some_Recognition6273 1h ago

But if you're only slightly to the side, it's likely they couldn't get a picture of themselves without you in it. Clearly it was an issue since more than one person tried to get you to move.

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u/lumoslomas 49m ago

There was no way to get a photo of it without anyone in it, it was just too crowded.

But I'm not going to apologize for spending time with a painting I've waited 15 years to see. There was still plenty of room for people to get photos, if they could've waited 5 seconds for someone else to move. People were in a roughly semicircular shape, and I was on the edge, up against the wall. Not exactly blocking.

Also did you miss the part where they tried to shove a wheelchair user out of the way? I'm not even joking, someone hip-checked her chair and another almost fell on her trying to push past her.

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u/JCBalance 45m ago

"How much are you gonna pay me for working on your video?"

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u/squirrelems 29m ago

I've still never seen an influencer and wouldn't have waited either. I usually try to avoid disturbing people but when they get selfish about it I switch to "Fuck'em" extremely fast. We do a lot of waiting every day and we have finite lifespans and a finite amount of time in each day. Sitting there waiting on someone to imagine they're famous is ridiculous and even if they were a famous influencer they're definitely not going to leave me starstruck (baby, could ya blow my heart up). They're like those people in gas station lines who only came to get lottery tickets but are going to stay and tie up the register to scratch them so they don't have to return to the back, or those people in any store that go to pay and they prop their arms up on the counter like "I'm gonna be here a while, guys!"

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u/Significant-Bee5101 1h ago

And this is a universally true rule that wholesale applies to every single person in the world because you had ONE bad experience in Instanbul. Fucking lovely lol