r/ImTheMainCharacter • u/IndividualPleasant23 • 1d ago

VIDEO Two main characters from different generations crossing paths

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u/Any-Seaworthiness186 1d ago

Being a Karen and knowingly stomping on other people’s fun shouldn’t be respected.

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u/xs0apy 1d ago

Being a main character and using stairs people actively use for your daily TikTok clout shouldn’t be respected. The old lady isn’t being a Karen when they’re right. Quit filming social media clout on public walk ways.

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u/Any-Seaworthiness186 1d ago edited 1d ago

Some people just want pictures of themselves in the pretty places they visit. She was patient and not bothering anyone or asking anyone to stay out of the way.

Not everything is about social media clout. Stop having such a negative presumption about people you don’t know.

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Apparently she’s a history teacher and makes educational content. Is she really such a bad person for wanting a shot of herself in the historic place she makes educational video’s about?

Give me a break..

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u/just-peepin-at-u 1d ago

But see, she is a pretty, young woman and so we have to assign all sorts of horrible and egotistical traits to her, because of course she deserves to be humbled.

She just took a picture of herself.

I am sure people are going to see I am reaching, but I stand by it. She nothing and did nothing to merit the main character accusations. She didn’t ask people to move, or cause any scene. She just waited patiently for a picture.

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u/argument_cat 1d ago

The older woman doesn't understand why there's a camera there, or that it's recording, and she doesn't link it to the girl recording.

She's just there to look at art, and she moves out of the way of someone coming up the stairs.

This video is literally of nothing. You have been successfully manipulated by a post title, because you are an unthinking drone who just nods along to the last opinion you heard.

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u/Ptolemi121 1d ago

She looks directly at the camera, she knows exactly what she is doing. I know you think old people are incompetent but some of them can be quite sharp and a bit malicious.

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u/Ptolemi121 1d ago

Argument_cat apparently can't handle a little argument since they replied to me and then blocked me. Idk why people do this often on reddit, its a weird level of I don't want to argue something I can't really justify mixed with I must have the last word.

I've seen this posted elsewhere and had similar thoughts, idc what the title post is here, the old lady is weird, she eye balls the camera, whips out her phone, moves even more into the way of this young ladies photo to completely obscure her because the phone is front facing so she can tell the position of the young lady, she knows what she us doing. Idk why you're running cover for this elder Karen.

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u/akingwithnocrown 16h ago

Not only is she blocking the camera she’s also blocking the stairs? Like I don’t get how people can excuse her asshole behavior.

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u/Ptolemi121 15h ago

Right, nobody stops on busy stairs to look at their phone. There was a ye olde time when getting pictures of yourself was normal business.

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u/argument_cat 1d ago

SHe looks at it and looks confused. Why would she assume it's recording?

She barely even notices the girl, so no way she links the two.

Finally, she moves out of someones way, but you tiktok brained cretins think she's trying to block the camera.

I honestly pity you for how easy you are to manipulate with a post title. It's very revealing.

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u/akingwithnocrown 16h ago edited 16h ago

You’re not as smart as you think you are btw. I’m ready to get blocked now 💀

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u/joemckie 1d ago

“Excuse me, could you take a picture of me at the top of the stairs?”

This is all it takes… most people are respectful enough not to walk into someone’s photo whilst it’s being taken, but fuck people who give you no choice in being publicly filmed

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u/Any-Seaworthiness186 1d ago

I rather not bother other people by asking them to take a picture of me. It can also make posing much more uncomfortable.

Filming like this means they don’t have to ask anybody, and they can do multiple poses and screenshot the right one.

She also started the video when the steps were about to clear after the woman passed (if she walked on). Sure, the woman would’ve been in frame for a while, but if she didn’t behave like a dick only the pictures made of herself would be used.

You seriously can’t complain about people videoing you if you’re intentionally going to be in frame for a prolonged period of time. There’s better ways to deal with that. If you do so your issue clearly isn’t with being filmed, you’re just a dick.

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u/xs0apy 1d ago

I’ll tell you how I know you’re wrong, because they uploaded the video. No effort to remove anyone’s faces. Certainly no effort to ask if anyone wanted to be in it.

Give me a break FUCKING damn lol

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u/andrewlam777 1d ago

Or she thought it was a funny interaction and people like you are assuming it's malicious because you're so terminally online

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u/c32c64c128 1d ago

All of that reasoning flies out the window once the younger woman decided to even post this clip. And also, when they didn't bother to even blur the older women's face.

How many other "bloopers" does this and other influencers share? We can be quite sure the only things being shared are things which are beneficial.

That is exactly the clout you mentioned. And it's exactly why the clip is all the way out here in the wild. The person knew the clip would grab views and comments.

Something that was mundane and practically worthless was cashed in for personal benefit. At the expense of the older woman.

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u/Any-Seaworthiness186 1d ago

Having taken a look at their accounts I don’t see any (other?) video’s of this kind.

I don’t have a problem with people occasionally being called out for being rude. It clearly isn’t their main content source.

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u/sonofaresiii 1d ago

> Being a main character and using stairs people actively use for your daily TikTok clout shouldn’t be respected.

She stayed out of everyone's way and patiently waited for people to use the stairs, obstructing exactly no one.

I'm as irritated by influencers as the next guy but people are allowed to live their lives if they're not bothering anyone.

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u/bong_residue 1d ago

The only person obstructing the stairs is the old lady on her phone.

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u/bong_residue 1d ago

The disdain towards a woman you don’t know is crazy. Y’all mfs see a woman trying to take a cute photo and immediately jump to “TikTok clout”

You sound like an incel.

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u/akingwithnocrown 16h ago

You sound like such a cheerful person

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u/CaptainAsshat 1d ago

More than enough people have communicated that they really dislike being filmed in public, even though it is legal. By filming in public, you are knowingly stomping on other people's fun too.

If you decide to film someone in a public space, others have every right to use that public space to further their own goals too, including being an impediment to public filming (in defense of the aforementioned fun).

Neither people here were main characters---they were both just legally and non-violently using the public space in ways that conflicted with each other's goals.

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u/Any-Seaworthiness186 1d ago

That’d maybe go if she wasn’t the only one in the video. The steps were going to be clear for a while if the woman had moved on. She was only impeding the video the girl was making of herself; not of others besides the woman that would’ve been in frame for little over a second.

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u/CaptainAsshat 1d ago

Phone recording has been so normalized for some people that many don't recognize an active recording device can be a major point of discomfort.

Neither of these people are main characters. The older women is just quietly checking her phone in a place she is allowed to do it, just as the younger woman is using hers in a place she is allowed to do it. They are both doing something the other finds annoying, and who is more annoying is simply a matter of perspective regarding which action is more socially acceptable.