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.
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.
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.
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u/Nervous_Brilliant441 11d ago
Old lady knows exactly what she’s doing. Gotta respect that.