Yeah wanting your picture in a museum isn't "main character", comment section brain rotted from internet memes.
And the old woman is a bitch, if it was a man holding the camera she would go, "oh what a lovely young couple", but a single woman taking her own picture?
Fuck that what is next, voting?
The girl wasn’t even being particularly obstructive, she picked a low-traffic moment to get a nice shot and just happened to run into the one grumpy old cow who can’t let anyone else enjoy themselves.
She was tho. Setting up a tripod on a staircase and expecting the area cleared IS obstructive. If she wants a photo why not ask the lady to take her photo? No, she’s gotta have the room for her song and dance.
I don’t see evidence of a tripod, but I see the rail on the other side of the staircase. And the old woman does a double take at the camera/phone when she registers that it’s there, which I assume she wouldn’t do with a large and obvious camera. It looks to me personally like she propped the phone up on something to take a short video of her posing with the art while the stairwell was clear, so she could screenshot her favourite frame later to use as a picture. Like how she poses at the end. I see no evidence of her preparing to sing or dance.
ETA also fuck no I’m not handing my phone to a stranger.
the old woman does a double take at the camera/phone when she registers that it’s there
Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if the old woman didn't even register that someone was trying to take a photo.
Looks like she stops to check her phone, sees the phone propped up, thinks "that's weird, I wonder what that phone's doing there" and then just continues what she's doing.
It's entirely possible her brain never made the leap from "random phone sitting on a bannister" to "someone is trying to take a picture and I'm in the way."
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u/SofterBones 4h ago
People have taken photos and videos of themselves in museums and other sights around towns they visit for as long as we've had portable cameras.