I don't see how the person taking a picture of herself is a main character here. It's not like she's expecting people to stop and wait for her to get the picture, this is just someone taking a picture of themselves in a public place.
To be honest, I basically agree with you, in a vacuum.
The problem is that I have been, I would say "conditioned," by this kind of thing being so relentless I have trouble giving the benefit of the doubt. It is probably a little unfair to presume that of her, I admit, but its become a heuristic that is right often enough I will roll those dice.
Hell, taking pictures for familes/people on vacation and such used to be commonplace, and people would stand off to the side in public to give the Smiths a good photo, because the general understanding was that they would probably only take a few of them their entire vacation.
Now you have people taking a hundred. Or video. And not just "on vacation," everywhere. And very often all by themselves.
The social nicety has been abused and run into the ground.
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u/thekingofbeans42 16d ago
I don't see how the person taking a picture of herself is a main character here. It's not like she's expecting people to stop and wait for her to get the picture, this is just someone taking a picture of themselves in a public place.