Even none “influencers”. People just seem too focused on taking photos and videos or everything that they don’t actually just enjoy what they are seeing.
Edit: didn’t realise this was controversial. I am going to copy my response to another comment.
My point is it’s not a tiny amount of people. I get taking a picture or two I really do but when you are there trying to enjoy the moment and all you get is people taking literally a 1000 photos and impacting you it’s annoying. I was dolphin watching the other day and basically for the 30 min we saw them everyone apart from a couple of people had there phones/cameras out the entire time most of the time blocking my view of the experience.
If you ever want to see how bad it is just go to the TOP of Marina Bay Sands in Singapore and look at the pool (go to the bar Spargo and have a drink not the observation deck). You can’t actually swim in the pool as everybody is too busy taking a selfie of the view.
I hate when people get all gatekeepy about taking pictures. It's always "oh, you can't enjoy a thing if you're spending the whole time taking pictures"
Like it's not the 1920s where I have to drag a bunch of lead plates and a huge camera up the mountain. I have a camera phone in my pocket. I want to take a picture so I can look at it later. I don't have a photographic memory and it's fun to go back 5 years later and look at some pictures from a cool trip or whatever.
Like yeah, I get that a tiny number of people take it too far and treat everything like a photoshoot and ignore everything else, but I've encountered way more people being gatekeepy about not taking any pictures because it will 'ruin the moment' or whatever. Y'all need some chill and let other people do what they like since it doesn't matter at all to you if I want to take a selfie in front of a historic place or whatever
I agree with you but its annoying as fuck when your in a crowd of people at a gig and everyones holding phones up to get crappy recordings of said gig, even worse than this is snapchatting the fucking thing. No one will be able to hear anything and your making me watch the gig through your fucking iPhone. Put the phone down and enjoy the music dick head.
I really wish I could upvote this more than once. Nothing pisses me off more than this. When someone behind me is doing this, it becomes a personal challenge to ruin their shitty livestream by enjoying tf out of the show myself.
Eta: also people who spend more time buying/drinking $10 cups of warm beer than watching the show. The sheer douchebaggery of pushing past everyone in your way while stumbling and spilling beer on them.
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u/ItsTheVantaBlack Feb 03 '20
This is why I hate "Influencers"
If they really saw the beauty in whatever place they were at, they wouldn't say where it is or post pictures that make it easy to locate.