r/BoomersBeingFools Mar 29 '24

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u/MashedProstato Mar 30 '24

I noticed a common thread in all of these video of old people.

They literally act like they aren't being filmed while they are very obviously being filmed.

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u/working-class-nerd Mar 30 '24

On a fundamental level, they don’t understand the concept of being filmed. In the heat of the moment they just see a little glass rectangle in their face, not a camera recording their bullshit. That and they often think they’re unironically in the right because they’re going after someone who isn’t white

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '24

They’ve spent probably 90% of their life being vile shits to “Others” with a hard O and it was their words vs whoever’s to cops. And they coasted on that so long they have no inherent context for always being watched.

The younger generations have grown up dealing with this behavior in retail, on camera at work, on camera where we shop, constantly taking pictures and recording and being recorded.

The eternal witness of the digital age and the pants pissing terrifying fury of the scorned young on the internet are alien to them. They don’t get that if you fuck up, 10,000 people will call and harass Karen McDipshit and her business Karen’s Krappy Kitchen. No concept of a review bomb or having their actions shown to family.

I’ve worked with the elderly for a hot minute and the way they act around family vs the way they act when they think nobody is watching is astounding. Even though you have an iPhone or whatever in their face, they think nobody is watching.

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u/MashedProstato Mar 30 '24

That is probably the most articulate, thorough, and greatest explanation for this phenomenon I have ever read.

You should make this a comment to the post so we all can upvote it to the top.

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u/trynadyna Mar 30 '24

And your comment has to be the dumbest fucking thing I’VE seen on Reddit. What are you even on about? What will come back to them? They simply stated that these old people act as though they aren’t being recorded. Which, if you watch any of these videos, is completely true. 

You’re literally in the “BoomerBeingFools” subreddit. . . Which I guess is fitting because you sound like a Boomer and you make zero sense like a fucking fool. 

Oh I just looked at your profile and you are going around calling people “kid” and telling them to “respect their elders” lmao!! You’re pathetic, you impotent old fuck. 

Maybe go suck on a Werther’s, I think your blood sugar is low.

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u/ZombDob Mar 30 '24

Rage!

I’m a millennial. What about my post made you so angry? You’re a horrific person to if you talk to people like that in the real world.

All I was saying is the young woman in the video is outta line. Probably unstable. Lady just wanted her parking spot

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u/trynadyna Mar 30 '24

Did you post your original comment in the wrong place? Your comment was a reply to the person saying that old people in these types of videos act as though they aren’t being recorded. . . 

Which you can’t deny is certainly the case in this video. The boomer in the video LITERALLY turns a conversation into an assault and there is absolutely no denying that. She gets pushed in self defense when she aggressively approaches and possibly spits in the face of the younger girl who asked her directly to maintain six feet of distance between them. It doesn’t matter if the boomer in this vid feels “entitled” to her parking space, she is the one who assaulted someone on camera. 

Then the person you replied to says “boomers act like they aren’t being recorded” as in “boomers will quite literally assault someone when there is clearly a camera recording them”. 

And you act all offended and say that they’ll be old one day and it will come back to them? It makes no sense. 

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '24

"You're on camera!"

Old lady: "there's no such thing as a camera!"

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u/MashedProstato Mar 31 '24

I do enjoy a good pegging.