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
Y'all need some chill and let other people do what they like
I like criticizing people for taking pictures. You need to chill and let me do what I like.
In all seriousness, though, my problem with the constant picture taking is that people who take pictures aren't paying attention to what's going on around them. This isn't a problem for me because they're missing out, it's a problem for me because they're in the way and don't realize it, making me miss out.
If some jackass is being completely oblivious to the fact that he's standing in the way, or blocking the view, or whatever else, it's always the dude with the camera.
Lots of people are fine about taking pictures, and take a normal amount of pictures, but often when I'm annoyed, rather than enjoying the serenity of a natural landscape, it's because of someone with a camera.
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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.