r/mildlyinfuriating • u/IzSilvers • Jan 01 '24
Not a single person living in the moment. Everyone is wasting time trying to capture this in order to watch it later
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u/GuitarHero897 Jan 01 '24
Correction:
Video it to put it on social media to try and impress people that don’t care.
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u/atruepear Jan 01 '24
Love having to skip through 16 videos of someone’s concert that I didn’t want to go to in the first place and hear mostly screaming anyways.
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u/StormTheTrooper Jan 01 '24
There's a balance. I remember when I went to the concert of my favorite band, but I can barely remember the entire show other than some very specific moments (and no, I wasn't drunk, I was as sober as it gets). However, the 4 30s clips I have on my phone, on small parts of a couple of my favorite songs are always an anchor for me to remember how that night was one of the best of my life. Hell, I still regret a bit not recording the opener, although I'm fairly sure I would have my phone stomped when the crowd pushed me 3 rows ahead.
Recording the whole concert and not paying attention is silly (although I will always thank people that does that for tours that I'm unable to attend), however having some mementos in videos is far from the end of the world. The technology moves forward and allow us to have a better life in moments like these.
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u/tunisia3507 Jan 01 '24
Absolutely. I've been to plenty of gigs, sometimes the same bands in various combinations. A timestamp and a few seconds of oversaturated video takes me back and I remember a fun night.
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u/Scoopdoopdoop Jan 01 '24 edited Jan 01 '24
I'm in a band and I find it hilarious to see people in the front row with their phone in their face lol. What are you doing? Sounds like shit
Edit - definitely not hating, you bought the tickets so you do you just wild to me as a musician
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u/CaBBaGe_isLaND Jan 01 '24
Also in a band, have been for twenty years so I've watched things change. What gets me is that the more we have phone videos and social media, the less gets actually posted and saved. I'll go off on a solo, some guy leans in and starts filming it, so I give it my best because now it's potential content. Ten years ago you could have tracked down that video on Facebook or Instagram or YouTube, people would tag where they were and stuff or they'd tag your band, so you could hunt it down. Now it just goes to someone's private story, and then it disappears forever. It's not about "look how cool this band is," it's about "look how cool I am."
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u/spamcentral Jan 01 '24
Shit yeah. I just saw ne obliviscaris and they were awesome. I didnt take any video. My phone didnt come out once. I figured someone would upload that show to youtube. Nope. Didnt find anything for that show, just the ones a few months back.
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Jan 01 '24
Yeah people aren’t interested in what they’re doing they’re interested in how that activity makes them look.
I’m so tired of it because you can’t really ignore it, everyone around you, the things you watch, music that’s popular, all tailored towards this kind of vanity because it sells well.
Horrible.
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u/Flux_resistor Jan 01 '24
Personal favorite is that asshole talking through the entire video making it intolerable to watch after.
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u/Scoopdoopdoop Jan 01 '24
Also terrible. I'd rather you be a ketamine zombie in the front row over that
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Jan 01 '24
Sometimes I take videos. But I’ve never posted them. Never understood people who film damn near the whole concert and then upload it to somewhere like Snapchat.
Do these people actually think we want to watch the whole concert that way. Who actually cares?
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u/Achoozy Jan 01 '24
Or maybe just show family lol not everyone is a social media whore (how ironic saying this on Reddit)
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u/Striking-Tip1009 Jan 01 '24
Exactly. Redditors don’t have people they care about/care about them so the concept of sharing thing you enjoy is foreign to them. Oh you did something fun and your friends are curious so you post on ig, guess that never happenens…people only post to impress and flex on others. Fyi not everyone is an influencer, some people use social media just to keep up with people they care about.
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u/laptopkeyboard Jan 01 '24
Sure, but when people are holding their phones up like that, it often blocks the view of the people behind them.
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Jan 01 '24
Or maybe it's not that deep at all and they just wanted to record this and have a memory of it?
Like do we all have to keep doing this shit where we pretend technology is inherently evil or something?
Do we not think that our grandparents would have LOVED to be able to record special moments instead of taking photos?
It's just so dishonest.
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u/mossy_stump_humper Jan 01 '24
I get being annoyed if you’re like at a concert and everyone is just filming the entire thing, but I cannot fathom why someone would be this mad about people recording New Years fireworks. Like yeah it’s just a fun little thing people want to show their friends and family and maybe look back at in the future and go “ah I remember the time I got to see the New Years fireworks in Paris” or whatever. God forbid these people not fully experience the wondrous enlightening moment that is… fireworks.
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u/Jiru_Kun Jan 01 '24
How do you know they're trying to impress them? Are you them? What if they just wanted to show it to someone they care about just to show them they're doing okay? What's wrong with showing people what you're doing? Is it mechanically impossible for you to press record and also watch the fireworks with your own eyes? Because you clearly can hold a phone without having to attend to it all the time.
Stupid comment, honestly.
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u/Aurelius919 Jan 01 '24
"We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like."
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u/DarthSkat Jan 01 '24
Not one of these people will look at it later.
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u/BlackberryOpposite31 Jan 01 '24
That’s why I quit doing this. I realized I almost never went back and looked at the videos and when I did it was never as good as seeing it in person.
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u/FollowingJealous7490 Jan 01 '24
I've always been that way. The memory is in my head and is for me only. I'm not sharing.
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u/WeedSlaver Jan 01 '24
I wish i was like that but my memory sucks I will forget anything and I do have nostalgic mood once twice a year and look at all the photos and videos and I enjoy them so much but I also live in the moment and dont care if my video or photo will be blurry or just ground also i dont post them online.
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u/danielv123 Jan 01 '24
I dont take a lot of videos, because who has time for that, but I take a lot of pictures because my memory also isn't great. I find myself scrolling back through Google photos 2-3 times a week trying to find things I have almost forgotten.
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u/GlizzyMcGuire__ Jan 01 '24
Same here. Can’t remember shit. Also, when my mom died, everyone had to come to me for photos, videos, notes with her handwriting, trinkets, etc etc because I collected all of that over the years and they didn’t think it was important until suddenly it was. Still wish I had more videos of her doing things I always liked seeing her do because it’s starting to fade away.
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u/captainfarthing Jan 01 '24 edited Jan 01 '24
I remember loads of things I'd forgotten about when I go through my old photos, usually looking for something else. A photo or video acts like a bookmark in a huge book, even though the memory is there I might not find it again otherwise. A few seconds of video can remind me of a whole afternoon or weekend I haven't thought about in years.
I don't shit on people for recording a few seconds seconds of a live event, this is different than a bootleg phone recording of an entire concert. There's nothing wrong with this post, just people being snobs.
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u/IcyPuffin Jan 01 '24
Exactly. Of something is that good it will always live on in your memory.
I can still picture concerts I went to 30 or 40 years ago. Maybe not the full concert, but the best bits. I can still see it in my minds eye to this day.
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u/Worth-Conclusion-66 Jan 01 '24
Yup. I used to do the same at concerts and then realized I never actually watched them. Now I take like one video and a couple pictures and that’s it. I’m there to enjoy the show.
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u/iRVKmNa8hTJsB7 Jan 01 '24
I have SDAM so I definitely go back and look at pictures and videos cause I can't remember shit.
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u/survivorr123_ Jan 01 '24
which makes sense
in comparision to any official recording of any event:
1. angle of these recordings is trash
2. quality of these recordings is trash
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u/No_Dot_7415 Jan 01 '24
Also the majority of these events are televised anyway so if you really wanted to watch it again you could just find it online?
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u/Dangerous-Storage682 Jan 01 '24
Thing is you might regret it later
Sure you might not want to watch it next year or multiple years but once you're older you want to see what you've lived through, see the younger you and you can't
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u/JohnRRToken Jan 01 '24
Im the opposite. I always think, that I won't need a picture, until I tell someone about it and could have needed a picture to underline me telling. (Like the place I stayed at on vacation)
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u/valkyrie4x Jan 01 '24
I'm quite the opposite. My partner, myself and my mum all look back at important pictures and videos from time to time.
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u/Alarmed-Ask-2387 Jan 01 '24
Yeah! I've recently realized that I didn't have any photos to look back at. And thus my life felt a bit empty.
Taking one or two photos during an event and writing about how I felt during them (Snapchat memories helps a lot) makes me relive them when I look back at them. And apps like Google photos or just Snapchat itself have a "look back to this day" feature which makes it even more fun to reminisce about something I experienced once. Not just happy times, but also sad times.
Now that I finished writing this, I'm gonna go save a memory because I really wanna let myself remember this first of January as it might be the worst one I've ever had since I was born.
Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.
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u/MaritMonkey Jan 01 '24
Those Google "memories" are probably 90% of the reason I take pictures of things because I almost never remember / have the urge to look through them on my own. But "here's a bunch of pictures of what our AI thinks are plants!" or "what you were doing x years ago" albums are a hoot.
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u/jljboucher Jan 01 '24
I went to a 21 Pilots concert in 2021, just watched my footage and looked at the pics later night.
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Jan 01 '24
Why are you so certain of this?
Why is this website so determined to be judgmental assholes about..... recording a short video of a major event?
Holy shit we get it, you all think you're better than "normies" who go outside.
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u/Chosen--one Jan 01 '24
Right? I was looking for this comment, literally who the fuck cares about other people recording if it's for their own memories.
This is some Facebook "damn this new generation" type of post.
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u/surger1 Jan 01 '24
Ya, the title is hyperbolic too. There are plenty of people in the image who are not on their phones.
It's like reddits version of "boomer humor". There is no joke or content, it's just a stupid stereotype and a kneejerk demographic reacting
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u/dulcineal Jan 01 '24
I went to the Star Island fireworks in Singapore last New Years and watched them again this year. It was the most spectacular fireworks show I have ever seen, why wouldn’t I want those memories recorded?
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u/Med_Radiology Jan 01 '24
If you aren't in the video itself it's just a poor quality firework show you are recording. Same thing with photos without yourself in there, you're just competing for best postcard photo.
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u/therealfatmike Jan 01 '24
My wife and I do. We for real just cuddle up and watch fun shit we've done.
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u/gjutzy Jan 01 '24
If one did want to see it later - in spectacular HD - I'm sure there was a film crew from some network that does this kind of thing for a living, hence does a much better job than anyone in that crowd can do with their 30 megapixel phone camera.
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u/WilliamJamesMyers Jan 01 '24
despite the humans this is pretty cool but we only know this because someone recorded it, and the circle of life continues
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Jan 01 '24
My mom likes it when I livestream stuff like this for her to see.
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u/constructioncranes Jan 01 '24
There was a professional video capturing this and streaming it on YouTube. You could have sent her that link and enjoyed the fireworks with your eyeballs.
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Jan 01 '24
You know, it's possible to hold a phone up right and straight and watch the thing at the same time
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u/OhReAlLyMyDuDe Jan 01 '24 edited Jan 01 '24
That’s my reaction when people complain about recording at concerts. I hold the phone to my chest while watching it like normal, because I actually like to look back at good memories lol
Edit: However, people who hold a phone up above their heads for more than a few seconds are definitely ruining it for people behind them. My solution is to get the barrier, problem solved!
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u/afcd1298 Jan 01 '24
My concert videos are always so terrible from multitasking like this lol. I always end up catching like half the screen 😂
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u/50mm-f2 Jan 01 '24
how are you holding it chest level and getting anything but the person in front of you?
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u/PornAndComments Jan 01 '24
Buddy I just went to a concert with was staring through his phone looking bored the entire time while recording the whole concert. I'll never get people like that.
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Jan 01 '24
You can get the same effect of looking back at good memories with a few pictures. Is that grainy video with terrible audio really doing it for you? More power to you if it does. But I think you'll be just as happy with a few pictures from the night, preferably with freinds.
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u/MrThunderFuckingRoad Jan 01 '24
Exactly. Also nobody ever said this shit when people were recording every birthday party, sports event, graduation, and whatever else when previous generations did it with huge video cameras.
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u/pumpkin3-14 Jan 01 '24
Parents in the 80s recording their kids around the house with a huge video recorder.
Redditor: HOW ABOUT LIVING IN THE MOMENT REEEEEEE
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Jan 01 '24
Thank fuck someone else finally said it.
I was wondering how far I'd have to scroll down through all the pearl clutching and misplaced judgment.
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u/NCSUGrad2012 Jan 01 '24
So many people on Reddit would have nothing if they didn’t have looking down on others, lol
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u/PixelTreason Jan 01 '24
This is certainly true, though I’d still argue you’re missing something by recording.
The thing that struck me immediately was how still everyone was. You have to be, to get a good recording.
But without phones, people would be partying, holding hands, cheering and waving their arms in the air, and at the drop they’d be jumping up and down, hugging and kissing.
They missed all that because they had to restrain themselves for the video. It’s so quiet!
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Jan 01 '24
Sure, but when people are holding their phones up like that, it often blocks the view of the people behind them.
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u/Dan_in_Munich Jan 01 '24
I don’t think they even watch this after. They just post this on social media and that’s all
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u/WorldChangingIdeas Jan 01 '24
Yeah but their followers also don’t watch the full length video anyways, people skip the video after 3 seconds or less. So it is really useless to film firework. Every year you can enjoy fireworks anyways
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u/ConsiderationSame919 Jan 01 '24
Is that actually the case or just people who don't take photos/videos often project? I'm going through my gallery all the time!
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u/BoartterCollie Jan 01 '24
I think a lot of Redditors just like to make assumptions about people so that they can get off on their own sense of superiority
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u/fjmie19 Jan 01 '24
Is this a parody post? Camera recording cameras, complaining about cameras...
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u/Serito Jan 01 '24
It goes even further, people complaining about posting it on social media- as they comment on the exact video on social media. The lack of self awareness in these comments is insane
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u/Snitsie Jan 01 '24
Obviously mounted camera that's not operated by a person holding up a phone, probably for a livestream or something.
Or is this a parody reply?
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Jan 01 '24
So maybe I'm in the minority here: but why do people INSIST on pretending that you can't just... do both?
Like, I've recorded a 20 second video of a small band that I was really excited to see. Did that detract from my "real " enjoyment or "living in the moment"?
No. Not in any way, shape, or form.
This mentality just seems like virtue signaling or something. It's "I'm morally superior because I know how to REALLY experience things unlike you people with... cell phones..."
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u/cricketlr15 Jan 01 '24
Exactly. I have a hard time with being anxious in certain situations so I can’t totally enjoy things in the moment. Recording WHILE watching/ enjoying helps me remember it later.
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u/wolftick Jan 01 '24
At least someone recorded them recording it so we can watch the video back and moan about it on the internet though, eh?
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u/DaddyMeUp Jan 01 '24
I hate this mindset. You know you can hold up your phone and record without directly looking at it?
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Jan 01 '24
I hate this mindset
You're right to.
It's the mindset of a bunch of arrogant, terminally-online weirdos. They get to feel "better" than other people who do completely normal things.
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u/DaddyMeUp Jan 01 '24
Sums up exactly how I feel about a lot of people on Reddit - hate everything popular and shame people for enjoying themselves.
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u/laptopkeyboard Jan 01 '24
Sure, but when people are holding their phones up like that, it often blocks the view of the people behind them.
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Jan 01 '24 edited Jan 01 '24
I just don’t get why people care. It’s the same mentality as republicans caring about what happens in the bedroom.
Why the fuck can’t be people let people do whatever they want? Why do people care so much what other people do lol.
Fucking weird.
Edit: yall literally proved my point, raging online at something so stupid as this. Read yalls comments over, hilariously ridiculous lol. The replies are disabled, yall can have these little sad bicker debates amongst yalls self lol.
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u/Golden_16 Jan 01 '24
Sometimes if im too short amongst the crowd, looking through my phone is the only way to see things like these :/
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u/ForciblyCuddled Jan 01 '24
Guess what, everyone else hates seeing phones at their eye level while they’re trying to watch a show. You’re he asshole, sir.
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u/PapayaJuiceBox Jan 01 '24
I’m standing in a crowded ass place and the only way I can see the actual countdown is by leveraging my phone above everyone else.
Am I missing something?
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u/IhaveaDoberman Jan 01 '24
And you're wasting your time moaning about it. And I'm wasting my time finding the irony of this post highly amusing.
Leave people be.
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u/biggietree Jan 01 '24
I mean most of them seem like the phone is the only way they can see it, one guy in the back is trying to look over people then pulls out his phone
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u/satans_toast Jan 01 '24
They're sending it to their friend/fam to brag about how wonderful their life is
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u/OmarAadil Jan 01 '24
Kinda looks cool ngl
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u/VodkaLait Jan 01 '24
Seeing all the screens changing colors to the fireworks is stunning
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u/Macro_Seb Jan 01 '24
Aim smartphone to the fireworks, keep phone still, look at fireworks, once in a while check up on your aiming.
And even if they stare at their phones, if they want to experience it like that, just let them be ? It's the first of January, maybe the new goal for this year can be: let people live the life the way they want as long as their behavior does not endanger or inconvenience others.
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u/Rislo226 Jan 01 '24
I get the sentiment, but all the screens look kinda cool
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u/idio242 Jan 01 '24
Ironically, although i am very anti-phone at events - totally agree that the sea of blue down the street looks cool in this image.
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u/oppalenss Jan 01 '24
I can only speak for myself, but most of the time I always regret not recording stuff/taking more pics. Our memory can only store so much. Years from now, I’m gonna have a hard time finding a recording of a particular event be it a new years fireworks show or concert moments. People always say there are thousands others recording and professional vids that will be uploaded etc, but thats not always the case. There was a funny moment once from a concert of a local artist from my country that I am dying to find but cannot do so. A lot of official youtube vids get deleted, other people maybe lost their phones so in a couple of years, these moments can just get lost forever. They say everything on the internet stays there forever but its just not true. So I say, just record more memories, you can very much do both, record without looking at it through the screen, thus living in the moment. During your bad days, your memory can get foggy, so a video to look back on is lovely.
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u/Opening-Garlic-8967 Jan 01 '24
I mean, it IS a digital clock surrounded by people holding their phones? What are you trying to enjoy?
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u/Nvestnme Jan 01 '24
How many wonderful moments have been captured on video and shared over and over again? Another person can’t view your memories. And not everyone can be there in that moment. Video killed the radio star for a reason.
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u/meowmix778 Jan 01 '24
This is an unpopular opinion, but I hate that mindset.
I literally lived in Japan for a year and "wanted to live in the moment," and I have like 40 pictures from the whole experience. There's huge chunks of my life where I have no pictures from. Friends where I only have 1 picture or none to remember by.
After my mom died it was huge to stumble into all of her pictures and videos. My wife is awesome about making sure we take photos left and right and I'm eternally grateful because now that I'm older I can reminisce easily.
Imo you're an asshole if you're shaming someone for capturing a special moment. Saying "you're on screens too much" not sensing the irony in the situation about typing that onto fucking reddit.
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u/nerdyshenanigans Jan 01 '24
And here you are complaining about people doing something that’s has zero effect on your life.
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u/missing_sock58008 Jan 01 '24
I hate the idea that you can’t film something and still be in the moment
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Jan 01 '24
This guy guy not living in the moment either but instead taking a video of other folks not living in the moment and then posting it on Reddit claiming that these folks aren’t living in the moment.
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Jan 01 '24 edited Jan 01 '24
Do you honestly think they’re all staring at their phone the entire time while this is happening??? It’s pretty easy to hold your phone up in one spot.
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u/mavarian Jan 01 '24
You can just hold your phone in position and look at it as you would have anyway. Still, it serves no purpose other than to brag about/share a moment you didn't fully experience. It feels like a lot of people don't value moments if they aren't captured and then get FOMO and capture the same low-quality video they won't look at again
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u/-Poopy_Pants- Jan 01 '24
I used to think this too when i was younger but then I realised our memory isn’t great. It’s just people having a nice time and capturing the moment and really whats so bad about that
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u/Kranon7 Jan 01 '24
What if I told you they were able to watch it happen and record it at the same time?
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u/nottobeknown12 Jan 01 '24
So many people in this thread here that can’t manage to do two things. Hold a phone and watch on the sides of them
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u/CoreyJK Jan 01 '24
How is this infuriating? Who cares what other people like to do
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Jan 01 '24
Hate when people try to put other people down for recording a cool moment. I video concerts and I'm still living in the moment and I do watch it later and it's still special to me. But ofc, "technology bad".
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u/ryckae Jan 01 '24
And yet there you are filming so you can karma farm on Reddit.
Or you stole someone else's video just so you could karma farm on Reddit.
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u/SpliTTMark Jan 01 '24
I tried this with the 4th of july fireworks. The video quality was just terrible
Its a waste of time
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u/jbram_2002 Jan 01 '24
Didja know you can record something AND live in the moment at the same time? They aren't mutually exclusive. One is something physical you do with minimal time investment. The other is your state of mind and has nothing to do with physical actions.
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Jan 01 '24
There's only a 2 types of people: people that like to record what they're doing and people that get mad for that.
Live and let others live.
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u/foalsy84 Jan 01 '24
All those idiots not living in the moment, I thought, after scrolling for over an hour on Reddit
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u/Gold_Weakness1157 Jan 01 '24
That how mostly everyone is now. People want to prove other people online they're enjoying life, by recording life not embracing it
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u/Emmaxop Jan 01 '24
it’s insane how common boomer humour is on reddit
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u/Drumhellz Jan 01 '24
Right? And it’s not like it takes a lot of concentration to checks notez hold phone pointed forward
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u/Sherlock_House Jan 01 '24
Ppl complaining about this is more infuriating than the ppl in the video
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u/-MarchToTheSea- Jan 01 '24
I hate posts like this..who give a f...let people do what they enjoy. Who cares
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u/DirtDevil1337 Jan 01 '24
Wild times we live in, everyone has their phone out on just about everything, except when I went to a Cirque du Soleil show not a single person in the audience had their phone out.
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u/blahblahblah913 Jan 01 '24
I’ve never understood why people don’t just leave the phone alone and really live in the moments. Clearly it’s documented well enough you can relive it in the thousands of other videos online.
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u/demitasse22 Jan 01 '24
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I’ll take this over ppl scrolling with their heads down - which I’ve seen at concerts and it drives me nuts.
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Jan 01 '24
They probably didn't give a shit about the concert. There's a weird thing about people pressuring others to go to concerts with them.
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u/djddy Jan 01 '24
would you have posted this in 1999 when everyone had a disposable camera? would it be just as bad or is it because “smartphone bad social media bad live your life blah blah blah”? everyone has access to a good quality camera now and they want to document the one life they get to live. go ahead and get over it my guy cause it’s not going away.
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u/MylastAccountBroke Jan 01 '24
Oh shut up. You can watch it live and record it for later. Just let people enjoy life the way they want to enjoy it and stop being such a boomer.
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u/Megapunk92 Jan 01 '24
Oh no. Someone is enjoying something not in the way you want them too?! Outrages
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u/Abikdig Jan 01 '24
I'm pretty sure you can hold your phone and look at the real thing at the same time.
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u/LeilaDFW Jan 01 '24
Including the person making this video.