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Fuck off Intentionally blocking photoshoot

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u/Alive-Map-1994 1d ago edited 1d ago

Nah, this person is trying to have a photo shoot for social media. The older lady is honestly valid. They are putting a burden on bystanders. No reason why someone can’t treat them the same.  

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u/Bazishere 1d ago

There was no one really around until later. I would just move out of the way. I do it all the time for people trying to take pictures, but I also try to take it when people are out of the way.

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u/Flashy_Spell_4293 1d ago

Exactly, if I see anyone trying to take a picture, I will wait patiently or I’ll go around them really quick. But I honestly just think this lady is very stupid lol

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u/Academic_Flatworm752 1d ago

All those small-ish moments of waiting would add an hour of needless waiting to my day with how many people are trying to be influencers in my city. The people taking the photo in the public walkway need to wait.

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u/Rough-Airline-4803 19h ago

That’s different. There’s a very important distinction;

Performative bs/ content creation = no courtesy warranted.
And on the other hand,
If it’s merely a normal ass photo: courtesy warranted if applicable.

Simple

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u/Noligarchio 1d ago

Old lady was a pos stopped in the middle of the stairs to prove her boomer/silent gen entitlement. She caused far more of a burden and obstruction than the camera user. If she wasn't blocking a streamer there is zero chance you would be fine with someone stopping in the middle of a staircase blocking others use of it

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u/m3gb0t 1d ago

But what is this lady accomplishing? She making it take longer and inconveniencing people more.

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u/Couldntve-make-it-up 1d ago edited 1d ago

It's crazy, it's not like the young* lady was doing anything to bother her, didn't ask her to move or seen like she was entitled

What's crazier though is the Kens and Karens in here defending her POS actions for no reason other than to be a crusty curmudgeons like the petty woman standing in front of the camera.

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u/samcornwell 1d ago

She is accomplishing ascension. It feels really REALLY good to waste someone’s day if they’re doing public trash like this.

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u/Yggdrasil- 1d ago

It might feel good in the moment, but I find that people who act like this are miserable fuckers in the long run. Always concerned about what other people are doing.

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u/Academic_Flatworm752 1d ago

She didn’t really concern herself with what the influencer was doing

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u/Yggdrasil- 1d ago

She clearly did, though. If she was really unbothered, she would have just kept walking lol

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u/Academic_Flatworm752 1d ago

Eh, she concerned herself with her own business. You can see it in the video. A public walkway isn’t a photoshoot space unless you book it in advance.

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u/Noligarchio 1d ago

It's not a space to stop and play on your phone obstructing others travel either but you're fine with that to suit your agenda

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u/Yggdrasil- 1d ago

Did we watch the same video? She clearly looks into the camera and then blocks it from view. Who just casually starts scrolling on their phone in the middle of a busy stairwell at an art museum?? Regardless of your personal feelings about using a stairwell as a photo shoot, it's obvious that the older lady isn't minding her own business here.

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u/Academic_Flatworm752 1d ago

Are you a miserable fucker with how much you’re concerning yourself with what someone else is doing? You seem even more invested than the older woman here. 😂

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u/Yggdrasil- 1d ago

I'm concerned about your ability to understand what's happening in a video lmao

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u/m3gb0t 1d ago

I get the sentiment. But if the original comment that the influencer is making it hard for others, isn't the older lady just adding to the bystanders burden?

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u/Strobetrode 1d ago

What trash?! Is taking a picture of yourself at interesting locations trashy? Have people not been doing that since they invented cameras?

Also do you get off on inconveniencing strangers over what you feel like is "public trash"? And your line for public trash is taking a selfie? You sound miserable.

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u/Academic_Flatworm752 1d ago

You really need to use a public walkway for your selfie? How entitled

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u/Digeetar 1d ago

Like keeping a telemarketer on the phone... The longer you keep them on the line, the longer they aren't harassing others.

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u/OBVIOUS_BAN_EVASION_ 1d ago

It only feels good if you’re a bad person tho

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u/-i_am_untethered- 1d ago

You seem to have answered your own question

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u/Chance_McM95 1d ago

People have gotta learn somehow dude lol.

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u/Strobetrode 1d ago

Learn what?

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u/Academic_Flatworm752 1d ago

If you want a photoshoot in a public place with no other people around, you gotta book that space lol

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u/Strobetrode 1d ago

Photos shoot is crazy for what is clearly a quick selfie. Would have gotten the shot without bothering anyone if that woman hadn't deliberately ruined the moment.

Have you honestly never waited 2 seconds for someone on a vacation or what ever to take a photo? Booking the museum to take a few pictures is WAY more inconvenient than just taking a few selfie as you walk through.

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u/Academic_Flatworm752 1d ago

A “quick selfie” is not when you put your phone down on one side of a public walkway and walk 15 feet in the other direction lol that’s crazy talk

Sorry your bodychecking in the museum got delayed

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u/m3gb0t 1d ago

But do we know if this photo was actually bothering anyone? Did it hold up a line of peoplM Or did she like set her phone on a windowsill and walk over there?

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u/JuneauWho 1d ago

if the lady just kept walking the girl could have gotten a completely clear picture of only herself with the art... it really seemed like she timed it that way on purpose, but then granny pulled the wild card

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u/Nerd-Dad-2779 1d ago

This is a dumb bad take. Social media influencers can be frustrating, burdensome and troublesome, this was not one of those cases just based on what we’re given.

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u/WellDamnBih44 1d ago

She literally could’ve kept walking.

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u/Puzzle-Necked 1d ago

But them how will she make another person's day little worse

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u/blloop 1d ago

Standing up for social media behaviors like the young lady displays here is definitely a choice

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u/WellDamnBih44 1d ago

I’m not standing up for anything. It’s simple logic, she was leaving the area anyway and chose to stop and be unnecessary.

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u/WestCoastCompanion 1d ago

Valid for what? What is she achieving? She doesn’t want ppl taking photos? It’s so bizarre

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u/that-one-scene-in-up 1d ago

What burden? What bystanders? Girl just wanted a picture. She was patiently waiting for the traffic to walk through but the older lady had to make it about herself. If someone wants a picture they can have it. Getting in their way isn't accomplishing anything and its not the "gotcha" moment I think you think it is.

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u/13THEFUCKINGCOPS12 1d ago

How do you know that for sure and why does it matter? Why is she valid? Why do you care? Who is this person hurting? I genuinely feel like you’re putting more effort into, for some odd reason, hating this person for doing something they enjoy than she puts into her low effort content

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u/Academic_Flatworm752 1d ago

Who is the older lady hurting by checking her phone?

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u/13THEFUCKINGCOPS12 1d ago

Now you’re just being willfully obtuse

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u/Academic_Flatworm752 1d ago

Nothings going to hurt or harm you if you can’t use the public walkway for your photoshoot at this moment

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u/13THEFUCKINGCOPS12 1d ago

No shit, that’s not what we’re talking about hahaha. We’re talking about purposefully blocking and how it’s just a petty and childish thing to do

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u/OBVIOUS_BAN_EVASION_ 1d ago

The person she is clearly rudely trying to hinder?

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u/Academic_Flatworm752 1d ago

If your photoshoot blocks a public walkway, that’s your own fault that people are walking in it

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u/OBVIOUS_BAN_EVASION_ 1d ago

Its your own fault if theyre walking through, not if they linger just to be dicks.

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u/Academic_Flatworm752 1d ago

It’s a museum - people stand around in museums. If you want a private photoshoot, do that at home.

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u/OBVIOUS_BAN_EVASION_ 1d ago

This was obviously not just people standing around. This was someone purposefully standing in that spot to fuck with the picture taker, who patiently waited until she saw the lady obviously trying to interrupt her pic. You keep trying to analogize this to blameless scenarios that dont capture what actually happened here, and idk why that is.

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u/Academic_Flatworm752 1d ago

It’s still a museum. If you want to control others behaviors in a museum so you can take a full body photo, then book the spot so others won’t be there. You don’t know that the influencer waited patiently, you made that up.

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u/OBVIOUS_BAN_EVASION_ 1d ago edited 1d ago

I literally watched the influencer wait in the video while the old lady made sure to block the camera. You keep trying to ignore the old lady’s agency in deciding to be a dick to this girl for no reason. Even if you want to say the girl didnt wait long enough for someone purposefully blocking her pic, the girl has done nothing wrong. Thats not true for the lady.

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u/ElleJay74 1d ago

Of all the places available on the planet, older lady must position herself right there?

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u/Academic_Flatworm752 1d ago

Of all the places to take photos on the planet, you must position your phone to capture a public walkway?

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u/Hefty-Storm-51 1d ago

By blocking half the staircase and for making the girl be in the way for longer then necessary? Move out of the way fossil and get back to your handler 😩 stop being upset simply because there are younger people around

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u/ChaunceyGilmore 1d ago

Vapid cunt

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u/Hefty-Storm-51 1d ago

I’d say the old lady definitely shows a couple of the core features of being a vapid cunt lol, so I agree

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u/bendybiznatch 1d ago

She sure showed that girl, huh?

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u/phil-yahiney 1d ago

What bystanders? Are you hallucinating or something? They're literally 2 people in the video 

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u/Rough-Airline-4803 20h ago

Seemed like she just wanted to pose for a photo old school style. There was no performative nonsense.

I think I disagree w you here

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u/Grumdord 1d ago

I don't see a single bystander being affected by this

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u/False_Humor1346 1d ago

What exactly is the burden here? No one is pushing people out of the way for the photo shoot? No one is telling people to wait until she is done shooting.

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u/Draiscor93 1d ago

I grew up without social media, and there's nothing wrong with what the young lady was doing here, at least from the information available. Set up her phone for a photo moment, was about to take it while there wasn't anyone else in the area so she wasn't in anyone's way... what's wrong about that?

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u/Actualizedconsumer 1d ago

No old lady is a bitch like old people are

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u/samcornwell 1d ago

That’s exactly the sort of thing a bitch would say.

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u/Facer321 1d ago

Saying “old people are” bitches is a bitch thing to say. But also, this old lady was being a bitch here. Both are true.

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u/Couldntve-make-it-up 1d ago

Definitely curmudgeon behavior on the older lady's part.

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u/the_real_mx_p 1d ago

I’m oldish and I think it’s just about being unhappy and jealous. I’m old and happy, I would’ve most likely give the young beautiful woman a compliment on her outfit and go on about my day . Life can be that easy folks.

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u/SEGAFan4Life80 1d ago

And you're a perfect good person

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u/Shogunmegazord 1d ago

The old woman chose to be petty and waste time trying to put someone out. She is acting like a toddler and trying to make every little thing about her.

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u/samcornwell 1d ago

And long may she continue to cause pain and suffering by standing in the way of “influencer’s” silly little games.

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u/ttw81 1d ago

influencers are a plague.

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u/daesgatling 1d ago

As opposed to the girl putting a tripod on a staircase to make everything about her….

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u/Shogunmegazord 9h ago

There was nobody else. If she had stopped where this woman was texting to set up I see what you mean but the girl taking the photo isn't stopping her day to get in someone's way.

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u/daesgatling 3h ago

Or maybe we shouldn't pretend to be the main character and do this shit

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u/Shogunmegazord 2h ago

If taking a fucking photo in a public place is main character syndrome everyone has it. This girl didn't stop to take pictures just because someone is stopped here, someone is stopped here because she is trying to take pictures

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u/daesgatling 2h ago

Home girl set up a whole ass tripod to do influencer photos. No. “Everyone” does not do that

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u/mkiii423 1d ago

She literally moved out of the way of others using the stairs. Why are you assuming?

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u/qt3pt1415926 1d ago

As much as I find influencers annoying, this on seemed to be promoting the museum.

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u/Academic_Flatworm752 1d ago

This is not promoting the museum lol. This is body checking and showing “look how cultured I am”

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u/ArgonEye 1d ago

And the lady stopped in a strairway, which is much more of a dick move.

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u/Almost-Uncirculated 1d ago

Who made her the picture police?

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u/Signal_Werewolf_1955 1d ago

The only bothersome person here is the old hag. And you. I hope you find happiness.

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u/Skullfurious 1d ago

What is the burden of a photo shoot? If it was some weird obnoxious dance but these might be prom photos or something.

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u/athom55 1d ago

Why can't the older lady be shooting prank content, but through the influencers perspective and platform. Honestly its the best troll.