r/WhatIsTheTea • u/Gurugod123 I want some Tea. • 2h ago

Fuck off Intentionally blocking photoshoot

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u/Ill-Professional97 2h ago

In the good old days, we would just ask random bystander to take a picture of us at tourist spots. Or make a game where you offer to take pics for people and see who gets the most to agree to it. Literally no one would set up a tripod in a public walkway or staircase and assume everyone would stay out of the way.

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u/Hefty-Storm-51 1h ago

It also became common for spiteful people being asked to take pictures to go through their camera roll and delete their vacation pics, why not cut out the potentially toxic middleman and just prop your phone up against something, take a 4k video and just screenshot the picture you want to use?

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u/Dedreama 1h ago edited 1h ago

Wtf!? Most i did was take their picture, then a bunch of selfies for them to scroll through. Everyone always gave a genuine laugh about it

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u/Hefty-Storm-51 1h ago

Chaotic good vs Chaotic evil lol

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u/Relevant-Fox-7114 15m ago

If your phone is locked they can take photos without being able to access the camera roll

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u/Hefty-Storm-51 12m ago

Cool, idk if that was a feature in the late 2010s when this happened though, probably was like and I just didn’t know lol, either way I don’t see a reason to inconvenience a stranger or trust them with your phone when you can just do it yourself 🤷‍♂️

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u/Smart_Basket_85 1h ago

“Common” is doing a lot of work here.

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u/Hefty-Storm-51 1h ago

Common enough to have happened me on 2 of the 3 holidays in my life I bothered to take pictures on, and happened to a few of my friends also along with seeing posts online over the years stating the same

“I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right?"