It was hard for me to figure out how to censor this video, as I wanted to protect identities but still talk about this issue. The people whose identities aren’t blurred are those posted without malicious intent and who have already been exposed to 100,000+ viewers. If I felt that showing them would expose them to even more people than they already were/if the poster seemed to have sinister intent, their faces were blurred.
I had a seizure in a grocery store a few months ago. Instead of being worried about my health when I woke up, I was actually panicking because “what if someone recorded me?” I genuinely hate it here
I'm disabled and I'm terrified I'm gonna end up on the internet as "look at this drunk loser" because I tend to stumble and trip. I'm not drunk, I'm disabled. I'm sorry this is a feeling we both have
Did no one help you?!?!? I've slapped a phone out of someone's hand for doing that, then demanded they call 911. I was an employee though so it was my job to help.
As an epileptic, this is a HUGE source of anxiety for me. The last thing I want is someone recording me going through a medical emergency in a public place.
I recently had a seizure, thankfully not in public but , the worry i get if i did have a seizure in public or if i had to go in a wheelchair because im too sick to walk that someone would start to film me and or make fun of me . I have social anxiety so i already freak out because of the thought of people judging me non the less people filming me and judging me .
Best way to avoid the "negative" audience: be a normal fucking human being, get a normal job, don't bother complete strangers, and be anonymous online. I think I've got it mastered to a T. To the point where I don't have Twitter, don't have insta, don't have twitch, and only post to Facebook every couple months to interact with family I avoid in real life and snapchat so that I can speak to family without giving them my phone number. Most of my extended family only know what my daughter looks like as a newborn, since that's the only picture I ever posted of her.
I’m worried for all the Gen z kids who don’t have main character syndrome. Dealing with these “influencers” in your social circles must be a nightmare.
@@Amanda-xx7sj I’m lucky enough to not have had to deal with this too much but I do have a story where I was 14 in the girls change room and one of the girls who was directly across from me was clearly taking pictures, I assumed of herself and I hope so but I’m not sure. I was literally in my underwear and very uncomfortable with what was going on. From then on I was one of the only girls who used a shower stall to change clothes. At least if she was taking pics in my direction it was like 7 years ago and I obviously changed a lot since then so people wouldn’t recognize my body and it was likely for Snapchat but still (for clarification I’m one to the oldest gen Zs I think,I’m 21.)
as a planet fitness employee, recording anywhere (even taking selfies) in the locker room would get you banned, account canceled, and potentially get the cops called
Yeah the right to record in public only applies to places where privacy is assumed to not exist right? I'm 99% certain that there is an expectation of privacy in a locker room, right?
I know a bunch of girls who used to do it back in middle school for gym, and I always thought it was really weird but didn't say anything because I was scared so I just changed fast and left😢
@@Kuro7KageGMLocker rooms, bathrooms and bedrooms. If there is an expectation of privacy than filming in said area is a crime. There can be exceptions in some cases, if your bedroom is also an office or a personal bathroom if everyone who uses that bathroom knows about the camera.
I feel this fear SO intensely and I hate hate hate living with the knowledge that I am more likely than not already on the internet in the background of somebodies renaissance fair/theme park/college vlog or whatever, I think if anyone specifically zoomed in on me or god forbid approached me for the sake of social media I would genuinely throw up.
I suspect the lady at IHOP was probably being loud or dancing prior to that video. I'm sure the girl wasn't staring over one small dance. She probably caught her attention way before the food came to the table.
I’m willing to bet she was playing music. Dude I swear if I hear music from somebody filming something, that and it being loud or played multiple times, I’d give them a shit-eating glare too, that’s annoying as HELL.
The lady in the iHop video absolutely was minding her own business, she didn't get up, or say anything. She just had a reaction to someone being obnoxious.
THISSS!!! They’re such snowflakes istg, if they came up to you and threatened to off your family that’s reasonable But she just gave a look, ALL OF US do it.
Honestly like I would've laughed at her ass. The lady in the video was just reacting the way I feel like most people would. If someone's dancing in public they get looked at weird. Tiktokers need to understand that they deserve to be judged sometimes 😭
15:03 this reminds me of when people would record old people eating alone at a restaurant and say something like “the poor man has to eat alone this is so sad” LIKE JUST LET THE PERSON EAT
I had a classmate in 5th grade who took a selfie of her and all the people behind her (including me) during a fire drill. She asked if she could post my face on her social media and when I said no, she didn’t post it. An 11 year-old classmate asked for permission to post me, just goes to show how delusional some of these GROWN influencers are.
Honestly mad respect to your classmate, a lot of 11 years old would have done it anyway. Not even to be an asshole or intentionally disrespectful, but just because at 11 you're like "eh it's probably fine," since it's hard to conceptualize what immortalizing your image for millions of people really means. Props to her parents, honestly.
When I was 12 a new student arrived at school and immediately informed any friends she made that she couldn't have her face on social media. Everyone respected that, no questions asked. Turns out she was a foster kid who needed to stay hidden from an abusive family member, posting her face could have ruined her life. Again, we were 12 and didn't know the context, we just respected her wishes. If kids this young can understand that adults can too.
@@hnicholethere were these people in my year 6 class who would post videos of themselves HUMILIATING KIDS at SCHOOL WHILE WEARING THE SCHOOL UNIFORM without permission. I didnt have TikTok ( i wasnt allowed) so i never knew if i had been unknowingly posted online..
A group of influencers filmed me while I was at work two years ago and when I asked them not to film me they were really nasty about it and posted the video to their TikTok where people were calling me a bitch and said if I didn’t want to be on camera I should have stayed at home. I understand you can film in public, but when someone is actively telling you NOT to film them…just fucking don’t!
I'm old enough to remember a time where the vast majority of people were embarrassed to be seen taking selfies in public, let alone entire videos. I miss that brief period of time...
Fortunately In my country its incredibly odd to see people even holding their phone out in public and we don't have to worry about ending up on the Internet against our will
I'm from that time and I still feel weird taking a selfie infact unless it's a picture of me and another person I'd never take a selfie in public it just feels cringe.
I'm disabled and I'm TERRIFIED of being filmed in public. I use mobility aides as-needed and people generally tend to assume im "faking" a connective tissue disorder because some of my days are better than others. I'm terrified of being filmed because people rip disabled people to shreds online if they don't fit a specific image.
Same! I'm 19, can walk and use a rollator for chronic fatigue so I don't fit the picture at all. Really scary On a side note I once met a lady who works in the backoffice for the rollator company and she was super pleased to see a young person using it :)
Same here. I'm 17 and go to a public high school, and I've been relentlessly bullied my entire school experience. I started using a cane recently (two years ago now) due to some chronic joint pain that popped up over Covid, and people around me at school have been terribly mean about it. This isn't a vent; just saying you're not alone. If you're dealing with these issues at school, know that in most states in the US it's illegal to record in public schools, and you can press charges or go to the school board.
i’m autistic and also have tics when i’m anxious and the fuckin amount of ppl who record me because i’m an adult who carrie’s a stuffed animal or tic unintentionally it’s ticking disgusting
when i was in high school a girl walking in front of me in the hallway took a selfie, realized that i was in the background of it, said “oh, sorry” and took the selfie again without me in it. i didn’t even ask her to. amazing how easy it is and how that minor of a skill is lost on these people.
I'm feeling like it's about to start happening. Like if you have a certain amount of followers and post videos regularly are you not considered a film maker? I'm pretty tf sure you are. Maybe not a good one but yeah
It actually already is a thing. @lavenderandcambridge, as a filmmaker you well know you wouldn’t be able to simply set up a tripod, lights, audio gear and then record a talent at IHOP. Same goes for recording with a smartphone for a purpose of putting it on social media platforms, especially if you are “an influencer” whose content generates substantial profits for you and/or the platform. While general public thinks of malls, restaurants, and shops as “Public” due to logic of “being in public”, those spaces are not really public. They’re private businesses. The moment you step into those private premises, you are subject to their rules, and can’t hide behind First Amendment argument, if they tell you to stop recording. You may record in private spaces, only if it’s to report on breaking news events, or for private off-line consumption. If you’re recording for Social Media, even if you’re not monetized yourself, those social sites are monetizing your content, hence what you put out is for-profit-commercial-activity, which absolutely requires a recording permit from private business to film/photograph on their property. Influencers have been just getting away with it… for now. I’ve already seen some trendy coffeeshops and restaurants, put out signs asking to not record other patrons - they’re still cool with you taking a picture of the food you ordered. Do you remember a trend of photo/video shoots on active train tracks a number of years ago? Well… a number of photographers/videographers have eventually received court summons and had to pay large fines, because unless you’re crossing tracks at a designated crossing, walking on or taking pics/vids on active train tracks, is considered trespassing and is illegal, not to mention it’s very dangerous. They’ve incriminated themselves by putting the evidence online 😂 Besides these already existing private business rules, I’m actually most concerned with how influencers are spoiling various places for anyone else who may want to enjoy them. Even some local municipalities are already prohibiting what’s perceived as commercial activity in their city and state parks. You can’t take a picture of a friend, because the park in the background gets recognized on Insta and you may get contacted by the city with citation for shooting commercially without a permit.
As someone with autism, and probably schizoid personality disorder too, this has always been reality to me. Strangers often come up to me and say mean things just because they notice that I’m different.
Just be constantly aware of your looks and appearances and behaviour and focus on how people perceive you and overthink about yourself and every single micro-action you do! It's that simple :D ! /s
@Yourfavnextdoorartist1 You have zero say in how people react to you if you go out in public and make a spectacle of yourself. And making them part of your content just because they happen to be their is incredibly scummy. If she didn't like the fact that someone in the background happened to not look thrilled for her, she could just as easily filmed another video more zoomed in without catching bystanders in the shot. Clearly she thought trying to shame her would make for better content. It's entirely the tiktokers fault
Klikbeet, a Dutch sketch-channel has a "BN-er video" (BN-ers are known Dutch people) in which they organise a tourbus with the celebrities looking at "average people." (OBN, onbekende Nederlander, an unknown Dutchie.) The sketch is quite over the top ofourse, with some of the celebrities asking if they can feed them raisinbread on the Safari, one of them brought a gun along (It is not that kindof Safari, they warn him) and them wearing mouthmasks to protect them against all the bacteria on the cheap stuff that poor people own. It is Dutch, it is called "OBN'er tour | Klikbeet" and who knows, maybe it is even funny without subtitles. It is all fake ofcourse, just a comedy sketch, the celebrities are also poking fun at the paparazzi. They kick off a minor celebrity in the beginning (that they claim is not famous enough to be on it) so I would start the video around 1 minute.
It's pretty common for people who make no effort to make fun of people who do. It's their way of compensating for a lack of talent (i.e. passion + hard work).
@inkygloves5197 I know but they call us weird when us cosplayer when we film in public tend to get permission from the people around us or find a spot with little to no people around so we don't upset anyone or break things that belong to others
@@Murder_and_Manga fr the only exception is when there are protesters. then its fair game/j cosplayers are so respectful and nice the nicest people I've ever met are cosplayers
In middle school I was filmed by another girl in the locker room. She was suspended for a few days and I was informed the videos and pictures (that I didn’t know existed) were deleted. I had an even bigger fear of being in public and being perceived after that. Let’s not film or take pics of people without their consent, okay?
@@jackiele8311 they were laughing in a group behind a phone, so I assume to make fun of the fat girl who hated getting undressed in front of people. I wouldn't know any other reason they would.
Oof, I feel you, I'm overweight and I wear swimming shoes, some classmates and a girl who had sa'ed me in the past just happened to be at the same public pool while I was there with my mom, I got on the plank to dive and then after the weekend there was a video circulating all around school of me in my one piece swimsuit diving on the plank with derogatory comments edited into the video. I didn't even know because I didn't have a phone at the time, a classmate told me, I found the girl who sa'ed me who participated in the video and yelled my heart out at her. We later had a conference in school about the illegal actions of filming someone without their consent and the video was allegedly taken down.
@artlygalkd3502 Thank you! So are you! I'm sorry, I didn't mean to vent so much, it just felt nice knowing I wasn't the only kid that got treated badly like this by their classmates
As someone who works in customer service one of my worst fears is that I have to enforce a policy and someone decides to whip out their camera and record me, throw it on the Internet and create this false narrative that I’m an awful human being for just doing my job. It terrifies me to no end.
YES. Edit: Especially because the subjects of these videos get doxxed by people who think harassing others is productive. It might not even be you. Like that American man who got doxxed and harassed because he looked like the (British) guy who was caught on video graffitiing the colosseum.
Someone did that to one of my coworkers and the manager. I wouldn't worry about it too much though because a lot of people who do that kind of thing blow it way out of proportion and just end up making themselves look stupid, and the audience knows it.
Retail is wild man. At my old job I went from bagger, to cashier, and finally to front end manager within about three years. Within that time we had: - Multiple instances of people banging on the front doors after hours, including a drunk chick that ended up needing police involvement and employees to be let out the back doors instead, for safety reasons - I was asked to do a carry-out (help customers bring groceries to their car) specifically to *scout the license plate of a suspicious vehicle,* and - Someone try to shoplift three bottles of booze *inside his pants.*
It's not even judgement, she's not saying or calling her anything. She just looked over and instinctually cringed....just like I would have...... Imagine Ryan Gosling in his prime doing something so cringey embarrassing it turns you off completely. She's not Rysn Godling obviously, but she has a great chest...and what she did she might as well be Warwick Davis from Leprechaun
remember the ladies that made fun of that influencer woman who was filming them without their consent in a seat that wasn't hers? they have my full support. Don't care if they were "mean". fuck that lady. even if they were being rude, she posted it thereby justifying their concerns and annoyances.
There was literally an influencer who was mad because she got in legal trouble for recording a couple on the train without their consent (yes, in Japan)
This is also the same case in Austria. I wish the U.S. had better privacy laws in general. The citizens being the product for 99% of what is being sold there is the problem that is causing this kind of a culture.
Same in Germany, we had several talks in school lecturing us in detail about our rights. How even our parents uploading pictures of us online without our consent was something we could fight legally. I'm surprised it's not more common elsewhere because once you consider yourself in this situation it becomes a no-brainer to not allow people to photograph you.
"grandpa was mad for no reason" after filming in the locker room. in the UK, its actually illegal to record within locker rooms, period, and can be (and actually is) used in court. companies can get shut down, and people can be sued and data protection laws in the UK prevent you from posting those videos/pics, and failing to follow suit give grounds for a lawsuit. and in some cases can lead to account termination on various platforms like instagram and facebook. people who actually get upset about being told not to film are just the worst. at least here, we can straighten them out a little. "im not filming you" shouldnt matter, the fact that he was filming AT ALL would be grounds for legal action here.
As a teenager I feel so embarrassed by these annoying teen influencers, because they’re not only making annoyances, they’re giving people yet more excuses to shit on teenagers and Gen Z Also your Kirby plushie is adorable
Honestly same, I’m in 19 rn and I don’t know how old these people are in these clips, but man it feels like they weren’t raised by anything BUT the internet. Like, my parents were good enough to imprint laws of common fucking sense into my brain, even with my ADHD often making me stand out sometimes. Lookin back at how many outbursts I had in high school, I feel so lucky it wasn’t recorded or spread
Yeah I'm 16 and I don't have social media except yt and Pinterest, I'm so glad my parents didn't let me have instagram and stuff when I was younger! So damaging...
Tbh I feel SO bad for you guys. I’m a millennial and I literally had a conversation last night with a friend I’ve known for decades who was basically my partner in crime all through high school. We were talking about how thankful we were social media wasn’t in our pockets or this huge thing like it is now. It was a big new thing with most of us, but you literally couldn’t be addicted to it because it was tethered to usually a single location in your house. We couldn’t put every single immature thought or embarrassing photo or activity online, and going viral was like an extremely rare concept, it only existed really for certain funny UA-cam videos, and even then it might be like 30k people and that was the biggest it’d get. It’s scary how in like a single decade this has completely consumed nearly an entire generation. And it’s getting so much worse for Gen Alpha. We got the best of both worlds, got to have MySpace and Facebook (before it sucked) and early Snapchat Twitter and Insta before they became horrible, and got to have our privacy and anonymity. I feel really bad your generation truly, you guys are basically expected to be addicted to social media and be kind of mindless wanna be influencers. I personally don’t feel that way because I know every individual is different. I try not to judge even when I see kids doing things to record in public, because I know teenagers go through phases and you’re in that weird in between phase of not realllly an adult but not realllly a kid so you’re trying to figure out your lives. That is totally normally! It’s just becoming harder not to judge when I see 3 kids with their parents at a homegoods and they’re making some way too overly sexy dance tik tok in the pillow aisle. Like you’re 12 wtf! Honestly you guys all staying away from social media for the most part will do SO much for your mental health in the long run trust me.
My old teacher used to actually lecture us on how illegal and dumb this is. 60 kids in one classroom while a bald Middle Aged man lectures us on the importance of people privacy and online identity’s, the fun part is it actually worked.
It's not illegal to record people in public spaces, it's specifically illegal in certain places such as schools though. It's actually illegal to post a video of a school brawl online not because you're posting a video of people fighting, but because you're posting a video of school kids in school without the consent of the parents.
And for a while it _seemed_ like the people most determined to publicly display what horrific human beings they are were the ones refusing to cover their faces.
i always think of that video that went viral on twitter where the dude tapped someone on the shoulder and shoved a mic in their face and they got startled and starting crying and everyone made fun of them for crying only to learn they were like deaf/autistic and has sensory/contamination issues with being touched and they was so traumatized by the random hate that their sister had to make a video explaining that they were deaf like?! we live in hell bruh...
Even worse was the comments accusing her of being racist when she was literally just having a meltdown over having ocd and sensory problems from a complete stranger touching her without her consent. The guy himself was pretty chill about removing the video or editing her out if I remember? But he shouldn’t have uploaded her in the first place and I hope he learns from this.
A thing like this happened in Spain, a guy was trying to razor random people, one guy threw the razor to the floor and "broke it", the influencer went mad and tried to throw the razor to the guy It fell into an old lady, I think she had minor damages
the person who got tapped on the shoulder in that video acc uses they/them pronouns! just an fyi, i’m sure you had no ill intentions and just didn’t know
@@duh6599 influencers fighting with razors now? Throwing them into old women? Time to stop this madness. Sue tiktok for the razor damage let vinnie the pooh cash up for his evil deeds.
My anxiety about being filmed without my knowledge is magnified by the fact that I'm fat. There are entire video compilations dedicated to laughing at people that look like me just for daring to exist in public spaces. Especially if we're unlucky enough to be clumsy on camera and then we're put into "fail" compilations. Knowing I might one day open social media to see my face plastered everywhere and find myself on the receiving end of vicious harassment makes me want to never step foot outside again.
100% agree, I came to the comments to say this. As someone who is fat, I'm terrified of going into a walmart because of shit like "People of Walmart" which is just 90% fat people trying to buy milk and bread. They made a coloring book about us to mock us, for no goddamn reason.
genuinely especially because i like restaurants and sometimes I go to them by myself. and i don't use tiktok so i wouldnt even be able to say anything or do anything if i went viral for being the cringefail fattie when i just wanted to eat my dang shrimp or w/e
Same, I may not be a fat person but I am sure as hell not an attractive one. Once, there was three girls in the hallway of my school filming a tiktok. There were no adults around and so they couldn't stop them from recording. I was heading to lunch and they were blocking the only way there, especially because there was a crowd behind them while they filmed the badly choreographed dance. The only gap between them was the one between them, and the camera. I don't know what I was thinking so I walked in front of it. Now I am worried that a video of three basic white blonde girls and a group of annoying high schoolers has posted a video called "Rude person interrupts us while we're doing a dance *emotional* *gone wrong* *not clickbait*" I'm now scared for my life considering my side angle isn't very flattering and my posture is that of a discord moderater. Yayyy
In Germany it is illegal to film otherd unless they gave consent or they are in a crowd and thus don't stick out. This has so far prevented the worst of this over here. There are people, who think this rule is overbearing and goes against their individual freedom, but I love it because it protects the freedom of everyone around the one individual with a camera and a tik tok obsession. And it protects the individual with the camera from getting slapped in the face and get their camera thrown into a river by a pissed on, not-consenting video subject
At the gym I accidentally walked infront of this one big lady her phone, when I noticed I turned around to apologize to her but she just gave me a smile and said accidents can happen, I gave her a compliment about the amount of weights she could lift and we both went on with our day, it's not that hard to be nice but I guess not everyone has that knowledge 🤷♀️
I'm not surprised that it's coming to this! Unfortunately, another fear to come may be that some customers will see those restaurants as "sus" just because they aren't allowed to go influencer-mode there. Shows how messed-up it is that people can't tell the difference between journalistic integrity and living in a Big Brother society/police-state.
@@Scarshadow666 The problem is that influencers are not journalists. They just want free stuff. And they make a scene when they don't get it. I worked at a restaurant that did a influencer night just so they wouldn't keep trying to get freebies after. The only one that brought people in after that night was a guy that ran a vegetarian/vegan blog
I was just thinking that gyms and restaurants and other public places should start posting signs that people recording there must have a recording license (or pay a serious fine). If movie studios have to pay for a recording license to film in different locations, these supposed "influencers" also should have to pay the same recording license.
as an autistic person who spent my whole childhood constantly worrying about being rude or weird for simply existing, people knowingly and willingly recording others in public without permission and then not realizing how rude and entitled they're being is insulting on a personal level
My sibling is autistic and people in their school unashamedly just used to photograph them and put them on their snap story with little captions like “they never say hi” or whatever. Firstly, the caption is unfunny, and, secondly, they don’t say hi because you’re rude to them and take pictures of them without consent. I’ve also had people do the same to me. Fucking sucks.
So true! I'm also autistic, and I used to be called weird for getting lost in my head, either not talking at all or never shutting up, etc. and yet here these people are being weirder than I ever was and just... not even realising?
I’m not diagnosed with autism but I’ve struggled with mental health throughout my life and have the similar ongoing fear and paranoia. I will never forget being homeless and unable to move my car, this lady started screaming at me to move it (the brakes were not properly working). I begged her to stop raising her voice bc I can’t process while people are yelling at me, but the yelling continued so I started recording because I like being able to understand situations, even if I can’t process them in the moment (also was scared for my life lol). I told her I struggle with really bad PTSD and can’t have this conversation while she’s yelling at me. She whipped out her camera and told me “maybe you need to go back to therapy if your PTSD is this bad!” It was my last week with my therapist, I had to leave the program as my family was moving away and I couldn’t afford the services on my own. That comment was the one that finally broke me and I shut down, couldn’t use my phone or speak or properly breathe. I forever am afraid of her uploading this video of me hyperventilating and sobbing on the internet, it’s made me scared to have any sort of publicity as I’m afraid she’s going to post one of the most humiliating and terrifying moments of my life. I wish people were more considerate, as I still have a fear of going outside and being recorded to this day, and it truly gets in the way of everything. I’m scared to exist in a workplace and I’m scared to exist outside of one. This common lack of courtesy affects so many people :/
True, I really despise this kind of people. The only time I came even close to posting someone else's photo was when I shared the screenshot of their tiktok page to spread awareness, as she and her bf were harassing his ex and their child, with insults, physical attacks and vandalism, they were absolutely monstrous.
Because of influencers, I now have a phobia of public spaces bc I'm scared to be seen in someone's video without my consent - or even worse : being filmed and mocked by strangers. Doesn't help that I'm autistic and sometimes stim or do weird things without thinking about it. I'm legit terrified of the thought of being recorded while I stim and then mocked by strangers online.
Same. I use to go to the gym until the flux of phones/ tripods got memberships. I use to leave my house and actually try to enjoy it despite my social anxiety. Now I’m over cautious, always store pick up, and attempt to work out in my living room
Yea and wasn’t there a thing where a person with autism got their headphones taken off them for tiktok content and started crying because they needed them for sensory reasons and then tiktok made fun of them. The internet is sad
This video showed the two sides to the (problematic) influencers of today. The “I went into a public space, and the public had the indecency to be there too 😡” and then the “I went into a public space, and there were people who didn’t want to be in my video/recorded 😡”
@@Diogenes_ofSinopeI don't think there's a problem with feeling like the main character, but they tend to forget that the main character doesn't act like a twat unless they have a specific arc that resolves that. It's their perspective, it's their life, but the problem is when they don't see how you can't be mad at others for you not being their main character.
@@toxihex876 Main character syndrome is defined as people acting very self absorbed and anti social ways that make interacting with them an absolute pain in the backside. I don't mean people who just care about themselves in a responsible way.
@@Diogenes_ofSinope nah I get it, I just don't like that it's called that. Also, decent people in general are already way more respectful than they should be, because to us it's unfathomable how so many people can be that inadequate without seeing it as inadequacy, so we feel like there's something wrong with us. It's commonly accepted to shame people who think the problem is in others as if it's extremely hard to notice that is the case, and day in and day out we're told we aren't perfect either so we shouldn't point out obvious flaws in dire need of addressing. I think being more disrespectful and standing your ground when someone crosses even the mildest boundaries, regardless of how kindly they try to ask you if they can, should be something normal. You are your own main character, that's not the problem, the problem is being oblivious to when others should or shouldn't be okay with it. For example, people call taking a picture of something and being in the frame "main character syndrome", when people just want to capture a moment with themselves in it because it's their memory. Imagine looking through old photos and reminiscing of the good times you had there and instead of a younger, happy you, there's just some monument there.
@@toxihex876 I think I mostly agree with that. Especially the last part. It seems to be a trend on the internet to turn normal definitions of words into their stupidest or most meaningless version. Depending on what you think is a mild boundary I also agree you should be protective of them. But if it's something like "my boundary is that you shouldn't walk into my frame in a public gym", that's not a real boundary.
They're not even claiming to be influencers, they're just people who post things online and then y'all interact with them, giving them followers and likes and views. If you want to disincentivize this shit then stop following, liking, watching, or subscribing to these people. It's not like they chose to have thousands of followers.
my lowest moment that i regret to this day is the picture of a substitute with a bad wig i took and sent to another student when i was 17. I regret it to this day because she did not deserve to be treated like that and was a just sweet lady doing her job. i cant IMAGINE living your life like this without thinking about it at all, taking pictures of strangers on the bus and shit. that was considered ✨bullying ✨ and ✨illegal ✨ when i was growing up! seems like the people who did that type of bullying never grew out of it, to me.
Agreed like these people post something controversial and then when people have conflicting opinions they’re just like “pls im a child” or posting multi paragraph essays about why they’re right to win an argument against a 10 year old Like theres a reason kids aren’t allowed on social media, because they(most likely) can’t handle an audience
@@Ztmysolos I don't agree that content creators "deserve" to be death threatened, no one deserves that and no one should do that. But I agree that content creators should understand, that they're not safe from everything only because they're "influencers", and they have responsibility for their own actions.
@@froggycolouring I've seen opposite situations, too. When adults bullied and mocked children on Internet, but when they were caught on action, they posted stuff like: "Oh, I'm innocent, I'm just teaching this little shit some discipline!" or "Boohoo, it's an adult site if you can't handle adult conversations then leave it lol :D". Trust me, some adults are so entitled to their age, they think they can abuse a child and get away with nothing, both on Internet and irl.
@@Ztmysolosi was agreeing untill you said death threats, a little bit of hate and criticism is expected but death threats are way way out of the line, you know people get reported to the police irl for doing things like this ☠️ like no
It's weird, I thought it would have never been allowed in the first place, like in Australia you were not allowed to film or take photos at public swimming pools for child safety, yet instead of nipping it in the but early at gyms, it's gonna be a tough job to take what feels now like a right to film , taken away. But like mobiles in highschool. We weren't allowed walkmans, diskmans and mp3s in the 90s and early 2000s, I have no idea why they decided to say stuff it and let kids bring mobiles to school for last 10years. Now some states are trying to ban them but it's proven so hard to undo a bad habit. The lack of long term vision for some industries.
Seriously, if you want that exclusivity in a gym, then either rent out the whole gym...or own one yourself. If you're broke like everyone else then go be acting like a millionaire... That's really pathetic. Or, as today's kids would say, "Cringe". 😅
There is only one time it should be okay. People who have coaches for powerlifting that want to see their form, sometimes need them to film it and send it.
100% agree with this. A lot of these "influencers" do really stupid and irresponsible shit just to get a Tik Tok to go viral. Making them pay for a permit and insurance would put the restraints on some of these idiots, at the very least.
I'm so dang glad posting pictures/videos of others without their explicit consent is illegal in my country, INCLUDING public places. This shit is insane!!
9:38 Something I immediately thought of here (and continued to think for the entire rest of the video) is that some people don't want to be recorded because of legitimate safety reasons. Stalkers exist. If you record and post someone publicly like that, it can be a lot worse than them "just" feeling uncomfortable. Especially if they explicitly ask you not to, there could be a legitimate reason, and to post them anyway just to spite them means that you could be the reason they get hurt.
the grossest thing is japan didn't even do the shutter bc of people taking normal pics of random people. japan AND korea did it bc of a serious upskirt pic problem. disgusting.
My 13 year old niece tried to pull out her phone and record two women arguing recently. I told her I'd take that phone away permanently. Recording bad behavior is even more classless than the bad behavior.
It’s starting to make a lot of sense why we used to treat kids like second class citizens. Their brains are underdeveloped and therefore they are dumb. We all were there at one point. It’s fine. But now adays people pretend their little moron kids are geniuses that can do no wrong. That’s why we are here now. Kids have absolutely no respect. If I stepped out of line my parents made me really regret it. Now parents can’t even spank their kids or it’s abuse. I don’t have kids and probably never will, so who am I to say what’s right? I’m sure being hit as a kid fucked me up in ways, but at least I respected my elders.
A friend in her 50s found a backpack at a park. No one was nearby, so she opened it to look for an ID to hopefully return it to its rightful owner. Out of nowhere, a group of teenage girls get in her face with their cameras yelling at her filming her and asking what she’s doing. She was trying to do the right thing. I hate it here.
this is exactly why im glad i live in a country without many influencers that record publicly and even if they do record publicly its usually made fun of
This is the moment when you call on them police officer and say you though the backpack had a bomb, idk if it will stop them but it will definetly scared them
Imagine if she had just been like “Oh, I’m not gonna get dressed up, just going to go to the diner as is“ and then got posted for millions to see. Imo you just shouldn’t film other people, especially at that specific angle where it’s clearly a subfocus
@@OfficerZlock thanks for confirming you use multiple accounts to spam lol I had my suspicions. That's why Adam gets your stuff deleted, cuz it's better, right? Lmao
Not only do Japanese phones have an audible shutter; it’s also common practice to blur out random people’s faces when posting online. Respecting one another is key. If not, at least get their consent. Edit: thanks for the 2k likes!
I noticed that East Asians in general are strict when it comes to this. They always blur people's faces that has nothing to do with their content or/and blur it as sign of respect to their privacy.
Another "stop posting strangers" video showed a woman who got deported from Japan for photographing strangers and posting them with a mocking caption. They were literally just sitting there on the train. I wish all these braindead content "creators" would face equally harsh consequences.
Can't go anywhere without being filmed. It's as if the world had turned into one giant Airbnb Bedroom. I have very strong socialphobia and havent left my home in 15 years now. Seeing what's going on outside makes me think I'll never leave my home again. Influencers just became insufferable. I might be a exception but I'm certain there's many people affected by those ever filming influencers.
I work at a haunted house and the amount of kids who come through filming themselves being assholes and screaming at performers is sickening. There's always been hecklers but its just getting worse and worse as this behavior becomes normalized.
Man, that hurts to hear as an ex haunter...like you said, you'd get the occasional dudebro who would act up to show off to their girlfriend, but I'd be livid if someone came through filming, especially because you know they'd have their phone lights on to 'get a good shot.' 🤬
Yeah man, same. And I've worked in a scare house on and off for a decade. This year is easily the worst. I've had people screeching homophobic stuff at me totally unprompted while filming. And higher ups rarely take actors fears seriously.
A haunted corn maze in my area had to shut down two years in a row because little punks were recording themselves attacking the actors in the maze and beating them half senseless. Just for views and clicks. Makes my blood boil that these little bastards get away with this crap.
I like how in both cases of people ACTUALLY asking for permission, they near on actually just made a friend out of it. People like and respect consideration, who would've thought.
I already have an anxiety disorder, the fact that going into public places is now a risk of being filmed, photographed, pranked, or otherwise harassed by so called influencers has made me teeter on the edge of genuine agoraphobia. Thankfully, it hasn't gotten to that extreme for me yet, but I've definitely gotten close here and there.
There was this case where two prank channel girls were almost executed because they killed Kim jong un's brother through a prank without realizing. The guys who made the channel were actually assassins in disguise who made the girls believe they'll be getting paid for "harmless pranks" and ran a legit channel for a while. They'd analyse the people around to see who they could prank without getting beaten up or sent to jail, and awkward looking people were on the top of the list. Actual prank channels actually do that and it's sickening. It's already awkward enough to have to navigate through people's inadequacy on a daily basis when someone stops you to hit on you or to scam you for money when you don't know if it's a scam. I don't even have agoraphobia and I hate going outside.
I was targeted by my school peers recording me without my permission to try and prove that I was faking a chronic pain illness. One where I didn't always need assistance but sometimes do. The entire school relentlessly bullied me for six months until I just stopped using the supports to alleviate my pain. I only found out why through a friend because i refuse to get social media. This type of stuff that some people find funny, makes me sick. Because "exposing me" to a public account did nothing to hurt them and has made living my life harder tenfold.
Honestly I am so glad, that it is illegal in Germany to film others without their consent unless they are in a large crowd and don't stick out (like wide angle shot of the viewers at a concert or sports game). So I can still walk in public without being scared all the time of stumbling over some prankster and then having my face plastered all over social media
YES!! I already came across people filming in public areas without permission of others a couple of times and someone ALWAYS came up to them and talked to them about it I hope this is a trend that never comes over here and if it does I hope German people will continue to have an issue with it :')
I mean even then peopel can record genuine happiness but like there's better ways of doing it honestly. or record at different angles so that you aren't recording people
Influencers are one of the many many many things that makes living and working in NYC absolute HELL. I work in a tourist hotspot. If I had a dollar for every camera shoved in my face while doing my JOB, I wouldn’t have student loans anymore. The only influence these people have on me and my coworkers is the influence to RUN AWAY.
Worse, you literally CAN'T run away when it happens, unless your job has an understanding manager and a backroom to bolt towards. I did the tourist based gigs and god, I feel so bad for you, I would have snapped on someone the first time it happened.
@@Magpiebard I worked food service in a tourist hot spot and I would have 100% walked away if someone pulled a camera on me at work. I'm getting paid $16 an hour this isn't onlyfans. Chances are in my favor that I wouldn't face repercussion because nobody wants to work in this industry anyways.
i wish influencers were also more aware that some people CAN'T be filmed and posted online for their own SAFETY. there are stalkers who can find their victims because some overly-entitled influencer thought they'd get their 15 minutes of fame by zooming in on those people.
Yeah, never thought about that but my mum is one of those people. She left an abusive ex behind when we moved provinces (who only re-entered our lives so my brother could meet his father when he was 12). As soon as I told my mum that he put his hands on me and my brother (I was 8 and saw him beat the shit out of my brother so he threatened me by holding me up by my throat) she and my dad told him to never come back, we took our names out of the phone book, moved provinces and my mum always made sure to use a nickname variant of her real name so he couldn't track us down again. We try to keep a low profile online considering this guy has a history of stalking and domestic violence against his own children (and me who is not his child), past girlfriends (like my mum) and his current wife (who was his case worker btw). He made one attempt to contact us since then through my mum's family but they are tight lipped at least. I'm sure some people are also under witness protection and getting outed online is probably the last thing they need. But hey, they got the views right?..
They don't care and apparently the law doesn't care either because they make it completely legal and their excuse is "you're in public, you have no expectation of privacy". Not that I am okay with it. I am just appalled that they don't care.
@@vanessab2392 My thoughts as well! People making those kinds of statements probably make them from a place of privilege, being able to have a public image displayed and assuming everyone else can handle it like they can. At some point, they're the same people that are going to have to realize tabloid "journalists" that don't let a celeb take a sh*t in peace aren't only ones with the power to publicly harass people anymore... 0_0
This is a good point. The museum where I work occasionally has members of the press on site for special events, and we have a system where guests who can't be on film for safety reasons are issued a "special guest" tag on a lanyard to wear, so the photographers know to avoid them. It hasn't happened often, but a few times.
I found your channel by accident and am thankful I did. You are funny, sarcastic, witty and smart. I agree with this video wholeheartedly. Keep up the great content!
having photos or videos taken of me in public w/o my knowledge is genuinely my worst nightmare. being neurodivergent means i move and behave in ways that people find "weird" or "sketchy", and every time i go into a public place there's the nagging thought that i might be put online and mocked for just existing in a place with other people in it. i hope one day people outgrow this because it's fucking exhausting trying to mask harder in order to not risk people making fun of me.
exactly. at this point these videos just seem like more of an excuse to be ableist without consequence. like… it’s terrifying to think that i could get filmed because i’m autistic and visibly queer. and you’re absolutely right-masking is exhausting enough… this is really the last thing we need 😭
While shopping in Walmart last week, an elderly man became overheated and started slumping over in his scooter, on the verge of fainting. I remember holding him up with frozen peas on his neck as I yelled for someone to get help, just to look around and see five or more people recording on their phones rather than calling emergency services. It’s disgusting.
That’s really concerning, that man could’ve died and people were just filming it. If I was witnessing that shit I’d use my phone to call authorities so this man could get help. I guess basic human decency isn’t the norm which is really concerning. I love the internet at times like for memes and the ability to connect with everyone, especially family or friends who live far away from me but I don’t like the internet when people are trying to get even a small molecule of clout by harassing people, especially Minimum wage workers trying to do their job.
I think the issue with all of these influencers struggling so hard in public is because they can’t curate that space like the do with their followers. People in public are giving them genuine reactions to their cringe behavior and they can’t handle it.
Yup. They're used to being called amazing for putting on an outfit or making toast on camera. So, people reacting honestly to weird stuff they're doing or walking through their shot because they're in the way of life puts a pinprick in those overinflated egos.
Not to mention, when you’re on the set of a legitimate production, the team has the ability to block off certain spaces to alert everyone that they’re filming in that spot. You can’t just put down a tripod and expect everyone within 10 feet to respect that tripod, lol.
For the gym videos, I'm glad you included a couple clips of people asking "hey is it okay.." because honestly it's easy to forget that reasonable people still exist.
I honestly think gyms should have it in their membership contracts that if you are going to record you must get the verbal consent of everyone in the frame, have specific areas or times you can record in or just ban recording in gyms altogether.
"She was just happy for her pancakes, leave her alone. You’re all so miserable nowadays" no. She wasnt "happy for her pancakes" she was pretanding to be happy for her pancakes so she would go viral on tiktok. There's a difference.
Ok and even then that's not really the issue😅 but ik for a fact she reshot that shi and had the volume up loud enough to annoy anybody in close proximity 😭
Thank you for this. I'm absolutely Team Scowling Girl. Yes, because I would be rolling my eyes if I saw someone dancing like that at a restaurant (it is cringey as shit), but also because I would be annoyed to be filmed without my consent. If you're going to film people in public you can't get angry when they don't behave the way you want.
@@inacattExactly. I think people have forgotten that reactions/emotions are natural 🥹 I feel like culture these days in the US have made to treat others like props, due to our individualistic and bubbled-in behaviors. It’s sad tbh.
I'm kinda tied on this on. I mean, sure it was cringe but should we really be judging people for cringe? Idk it just feels wrong especially since the cringe was just a little dance. Maybe I'm not seeing it in the right way, I'm sorry.
This reminds me of the time back in middle school all of the girls went to change in the locker room. While we were all changing these two girls started filming a TikTok and dancing. YOU COULD SEE EVERYONE IN THE BACKGROUND. As soon as I saw them recording my friends and I just dropped to the floor and hid from the camera. I don’t remember if they got any consequence from that video but looking back and realizing how serious the situation really was is disturbing. But the amount of entitlement and no self awareness these people have is disgusting.
NO BECAUSE I went through the same thing, but the girls were filming for Snapchat. Then the swimming unit came where we had to be completely naked to change, and I decided that I wasn’t going to change in the locker room anymore
MIDDLE SCHOOL??? Dude that is so dangerous on so many levels, not only is it a changing room but one with other children present- I'm sure they probably didn't fully comprehend the risk involved but if that got posted that shit would be insanely dangerous to everyone in the video
@@Silvermoonwolf At least in my school, there was always a teacher in each locker room making sure no one was fighting and stuff, but she was never in the girl's locker room to stop these things from happening
Similar situation in secondary, was part of the art/makeup crew for one year in the drama club. Some whacko decided to take a photo of herself in the girls locker room as soon as someone was changing IN FULL VIEW BTW and it lead to a whole drama of one poor girl getting essentially a raunchy pic taken of her in just her bra and underwear for costume change (her face was blurred tho 'tehe' {fuck that snake, was a friend, but that was the past}), and the whacko kept trying to change her story coz she 'didnt notice wah wah'
i cant even take a photo with my best friend who i see irl like ~5 times a year max when we're alone in the privacy of our fucking homes without feeling weird (i gave up), i cant even use the word "selfie" without feeling like ass... i feel u so bad 🤘😭
@@lillith-kagariI barely see my best friend once a year yet I never had a freakin selfie with her in the last 9 years… I mean I love her to bits and pieces and frankly she’s the only person I could call friend. But I don’t need to have a picture with her to let anyone know we’re best friends. But yes, I too feel ashamed to take a selfie in public 😅
I think the waiter just thought “oh special needs fair enough” That would be where my brain would go in that situation. Not that I’m criticising the disabled just meant I would chalk that behaviour up to that and would move on.
Judging by how the arms come out of frame at an awkward angle instead of the ‘waiter’ being right up at the table, I assume they had a friend get up to reenact it specifically for the video. Maybe they even did this multiple times and that’s why the woman was already watching. Just annoying behavior.
The funny thing is, since she recorded at a booth, the camera angle could have been straight at her and no innocent bystanders would be in view. She could have even cropped the frame to get a sliver of aisle to emphasize that she is seated at a booth and the worst thing that could happen is seeing an elbow, a leg or a passerby for a second, in view. This critique is on point about how other people are being treated like props because the content creators really believe that they are THE STAR of the show and they can do whatever they want in a business or public location.
Omg thank you so much for this! I've been watching your videos for a few months and this is the one that made me subscribe. You're just becoming more and more relevant and I'm here for it!!
Not only is it an ethical concern about filming people in the gym, it’s a safety concern. Most people chose a place near there they live. You have no idea what’s going on in their life, there could be plenty of reasons why they don’t want it to be publicised where they live.
This is actually a very legit thing and why Police cant just release cctv footage or show the public. If you ever went into a shopping centre and asked to check footage of some guy who just shop lifted or backed into your car etc, you will be told to give your insurance details instead. The reason is because you might actually have orchestrated the entire thing to pull a robbery and yes it really does happen to banks and jewellery stores. The worst ones are child predators and kidnappers/sex offenders who try to access the footage to locate a space to perform their dirty deed.
Can we also point out that the lady at IHOP literally didn't do... anything? That person didn't go up to the influencer and harass them, or yell at them. All she did was look at this random person dancing weirdly, have a "negative" facial expression, then go back to eating her meal. Like... again, what did she do?
@@BeingVeganllcif someone doesn’t even care to avoid filming you while you just want peace and quiet to eat your pancakes, then I think it’s her business. And like she said, a staged performance, overdoing her moves, literally screaming “HERE I AM! LOOK AT ME!” will make anyone look. And whatever their reaction should be expected. This is the real world. The people criticizing her heavily seems like they’ve never touched grass
You are the best. The one who is clearly saying facts about common sense. Especially when you were talking about gym, I could feel you cause I'm scared of being recorded in that state and I really want to go to the gym, but I feel anxious every time.
@lillypharaoh5945 That is exactly their logic. Ive litterally seen them say that about countries that legalize child marriage and shit. The absolutely would
I should also mention that there are actually not as many “public spaces”. Restaurants, gyms, malls and stores are often PRIVATELY OWNED. This why they can deny service to certain folks (see the “No shirt, no shoes, no service” signs and the “No Pets” except for service animals). You can ask a manager or security to basically tell these influencers to stop or leave. You’re not a Karen for not wanting to deal with an influencer.
@@SummerSun-sg3wfRight It's called invasion of privacy. You can do what you want in public but that doesn't mean others can't have an opinion on you and your stupid actions. Just because got upset because one single person gave you a weird glance doesn't mean you should punish them by exposing them on the internet. People will say she should mind her own business, which I slightly agree but at the same time if someone is constantly being rowdy right next to my table while I'm eating of course I'm going to look and be a bit judgmental. The only people I don't usually care is if it's parents with their children because children will be children. Grown adults need to be aware and considerate of other people space and privacy.
As someone who ended up in the crosshairs of a social media influencer who regularly posts pictures and encourages her followers to harass and dox them, this video is on point. They’ve made my life miserable for months and I’m planning on legal action
A lot of people talk about how lockdown affected young kids' abilities to tell what's appropriate to do in public, and I think that applies to teens/young adults too; we're so used to being in our own personal bubble away from others that we can't see them as anything but a prop or a hinderance now. So now my biggest fear is going on TikTok and seeing myself as an unwilling participant in something I didn't want to be in, for the same reasons said in the video.
I don't think we should give these people excuses to hide behind. Like, teens who were teens during Corona aren't socially inept because they didn't get to interact during Corona. They were humans interacting with humans and learning what's proper for at least a decade before Corona. If they unlearned ten years of "functioning in society 101" in two or three years, that's not normal. I'm saying this as someone who was a teen during that time and has autism to boot. (Mentioning that because apparently we "don't understand other people" and "have little empathy") I still know that filming others without consent is fucking weird. They should, too.
@@joethewolf3750 (this is a very small side note from a fellow autistic person) I don't remember where I read it but I'm pretty sure I've seen several sources claiming it's actually the opposite; we (autistic people) tend to have more empathy than others have by default. It's related to how we often form quick attachments to inanimate objects like how I named my stress ball lol.
@@travelingbard6161 oh I know, I'm definitely empathatic to a fault but the stereotype is still that we just don't get allistic people, mainly due to lack of empathy and less because their behavior is just illogical to us. I believe, like many symptoms, this is on a spectrum and both extremes (so more and less empathy than average) are a symptom of autism. But I don't have a source for that either.
Replying to the original comment now, I partially agree but I also think, as an autistic person who has grown up *mostly* on the Internet, (I got unfiltered internet access around age eight in the US where you can easily lie about your age on just about any site and kept that Internet access for the rest of my life up to now - eleven years on the eighteenth), I also just didn't have many friends in school. What I've noticed very strongly in myself is, despite my empathy, I don't know how to act in public and I get really shy to talk to people because I get really passionate about things and can get too excited about things the other person doesn't care about so I don't know how to talk to people and I *really* don't know how to move my body through space correctly. Despite the fact that not everyone is autistic, I do think a lot of people are in similar-ish circumstances with their upbringings. Additionally, influencers with large follower counts adapt to certain amounts of fame and don't seem to know how to process it in a healthy way. A lot of these people are young and what people forget to realize about young people is that your brain is still physically developing to even be capable of solid critical thinking skills. That doesn't excuse their lack of empathy but it does explain why they're making bad decisions for attention. They live on the internet and the internet has different rules than the real world. On the internet, they're the center of their own little bubble, meaning they have so many eyes on them. As teenagers and very young adults still developing critical thinking skills, they process their bubble in a way that allows them to transpose it on the world and they accidentally begin seeing themselves as the main character, able to do whatever they want because the world revolves around them. It's their social media bubble and whatever it touches, in their eyes, is also theirs. If we show up in the background of their bubble, we've entered their space even if we were there first. I do think the quarantines have impacted that, by some amount, giving people time at home to become more comfortable with being "cringe" - something with good and bad results for society at large - and, also, driving more people to want to become influencers for various reasons. Since social media disconnects you from the real world so much, it makes sense why this generation is acting this way. It does seem like empathy is on a downward trend while apathy or even egotistical behavior is on an upward spiral. Hopefully as the internet becomes older and older, people start to understand how to use it better.
I was filmed by a teenage girl once while I was at work in a restaurant. She was goofing around with her friends and they were being annoying and trashing their table, but when she filmed me (I was behind the register helping customers), I just got angry at the respectless behaviour, and I got scared because I don't want my face on the internet (apparently it's hard for people nowadays to realise that some people actually do not want their face all over the internet). I felt horrible for having to ask her to delete the video but I did it anyway and it baffles me that I was the one feeling horrible, while she was the one that should've felt ashamed for her respectless and mindless behaviour. It scares me and makes me angry that social media and influencers endorse this kind of behaviour in people, especially young children and teenagers.
That’s super crappy they were making a mess, that they wouldn’t have to clean up and doing it to get a reaction. I totally feel you. On all my social media accounts, I only have about 2 pics of myself, that way my friends know it is me but I’m reducing how much of my likeness is out there. With AI, data scraping, and weirdos, that is important to me. Also, a couple months back I went to the coffee shop near my house at 6am. I decided to wear my pajamas and get ready when I got back because I’m usually the only one there at that time. These 14 year olds come in and stand right in front of me and start Instagram live streaming themselves dancing. The coffee shop is 3 floors, I think I was the only one there. I asked if they could give me some space and stop filming. They gave me butthole face but moved to the other room. When they left, the barista quietly said those girls go to her daughters school and drive her crazy.
Yes, in Japan the camera installed on phones must make a shutter sound, but as they used to say “There’s an app for that” and there are countless shutter silencer apps.
filming for extended periods of time in the middle of a crosswalk full stop tbh... I was in tokyo and this influencer stopped in the middle of a busy crosswalk in front of me, elderly pedestrians and waiting traffic to film their travel tiktok?? the entitlement
Very cool of us as a society to essentially create a state of surveillance where you constantly have to be wary of being recorded all for nothing but likes on silly apps.
Forget the government spying on us; the real fear is being accidentally doxxed or degraded by millions just from some kid filming you in the background of their shitty 30-second dance
i find it so interesting that people think they have the right to film people. i've literally seen me and my friend on other peoples tiktok making fun of us (they live in our area). he was so upset by it and it breaks my heart.
@@multifandomperson8703 we did! they were taken down but now every time we go out together he gets really scared and worried. we did show the videos to our local police and such, it's better now but it's sad to see how worked up he gets.
The girl in the subway grinds my gears every time. You can’t expect anyone to not walk in front of your camera; people got places to go and things to do…
@@DoritoBot9000 this, or stole it or used it as a distraction to find your stuff and steal it when you're not looking among other scenarios tbh, some people would be that bold
The fact that “ civilization “ was brought into the picture when that lady was literally standing from what I assume a very busy walkway for people to, you know, WALK through, and being in their way just for some “ aesthetic “ pics. Like lady cmon now. UR being the uncivilized one.
I was at Target the other day and there was a kid, probably college age, minding his business and doing his job. Two girls, about his age, were giggling and taking pictures of him. When he looked in their direction, they giggled and one of them gasped, "He looked at you!" They were being super obvious and super oblivious. His crime? Being tall and albino.
Some girls did the same to my bf while he went grocery shopping for us. He has a very noticeable limp and scar up his forearm after a car accident earlier this year and he's very insecure about both of them, on top of the fact that he has social anxiety and doesn't like to be recorded at all. I wish I'd went with him because he came home distraught and paranoid about it because they followed him around the whole store. People should really mind their business, like don't they have lives too?
Yeah. I mean, people have been doing the looking and giggling thing for a long time now, (not to say it isn't bad, just to be clear!) but the filming adds another extra layer of sh!t.
Something similar happened to me, I was eating dinner with my boyfriend and best friend and looked up and saw these girls taking pictures of me. They stopped when I finally noticed and they saw me look directly at their screen to see myself on it. It’s degrading when people are so quick to take pictures to laugh at you, it ruined my night. All because someone looks different they think it’s ok to point and laugh
Karen went from "someone with an unreasonable request" to "Ew a woman is angry? Ugh!!!" Literally just another shitty way to judge women for having emotions, similar to what the term hysteria was used for. I hate it. I've heard stories of mothers panicking over their children's safety and getting called "Karen", it's so gross and weird that the Internet comes up with new terms to shame women like at least once per year.
@@shayerahol6434Karen actually went from "white woman weaponizing her privilege to send authority to kill/arrest Black people" such as the cases of Black people existing in public spaces or the historical case of Emmett Till.... to "unreasonable white women having tantrums against customer service workers", to "white women who have tantrums", to "anyone who complains to any capacity". THAT is the true and sad progression.
I hate it when an influencer is shoving a camera in someone’s face and asking unnecessary questions, and when the person asks for them to go away, the influencer makes fun of them. The reason why we say “touch grass” is because some people forget what personal space is
@@Bunny-pg8rfidk why but I thought “touch grass” was ppl telling others to smoke weed and chill out, but it also makes a lot of sense that it would mean to go outside 😭
@@Bunny-pg8rf yeeeeeah exactly I have no idea how "touching grass" would make someone aware of ANOTHER person's personal space haha was this loss in translation from millennials to zoomers or whatever they're called
A simple way to avoid those types is to actually just walk away from them, and not shout at them or give then any type of reaction unless they get too close. I've had weirdos follow me in public before (not filming.) When they get closer to me I yell I DON'T KNOW YOU and you would be surprised what an effective deterrent it is to these creeps. I can't help but think of Bobby from King of the Hill tho. Lol.
I have agoraphobia, I've been working with my therapist to unlearn the idea that everyone's watching me or wants to do harm. Recently we've switched tactics, because that's no longer an irrational fear.
It was hard for me to figure out how to censor this video, as I wanted to protect identities but still talk about this issue. The people whose identities aren’t blurred are those posted without malicious intent and who have already been exposed to 100,000+ viewers. If I felt that showing them would expose them to even more people than they already were/if the poster seemed to have sinister intent, their faces were blurred.
FIRSTT YAYY
It's okay but damn the thumbnail scared me
Aww dude thanks for working so hard on this video 😎👍👍
You work so hard on your videos!
That was so thoughtful of you, but you’re fine, we aren’t gonna come at you for that 😂
I had a seizure in a grocery store a few months ago. Instead of being worried about my health when I woke up, I was actually panicking because “what if someone recorded me?”
I genuinely hate it here
I'm disabled and I'm terrified I'm gonna end up on the internet as "look at this drunk loser" because I tend to stumble and trip. I'm not drunk, I'm disabled. I'm sorry this is a feeling we both have
Did no one help you?!?!? I've slapped a phone out of someone's hand for doing that, then demanded they call 911. I was an employee though so it was my job to help.
I’ve had a panic attack in a public place and unfortunately can relate- not the same thing but I thought I should share.
As an epileptic, this is a HUGE source of anxiety for me. The last thing I want is someone recording me going through a medical emergency in a public place.
I recently had a seizure, thankfully not in public but , the worry i get if i did have a seizure in public or if i had to go in a wheelchair because im too sick to walk that someone would start to film me and or make fun of me . I have social anxiety so i already freak out because of the thought of people judging me non the less people filming me and judging me .
“Don’t put on a show if you can’t handle the audience” is such a raw fucking line
100% agreed
This. This was the line & all we need to say to someone exhibiting this kind of weirdo behavior.
real shit
Best way to avoid the "negative" audience: be a normal fucking human being, get a normal job, don't bother complete strangers, and be anonymous online. I think I've got it mastered to a T. To the point where I don't have Twitter, don't have insta, don't have twitch, and only post to Facebook every couple months to interact with family I avoid in real life and snapchat so that I can speak to family without giving them my phone number. Most of my extended family only know what my daughter looks like as a newborn, since that's the only picture I ever posted of her.
@@lunaballunaYou'll still get a negative audience somewhere
I’m worried for all the Gen z kids who don’t have main character syndrome. Dealing with these “influencers” in your social circles must be a nightmare.
Believe me.. it is
Literally why I'm very careful with who I'm friends with, none of my friends are allowed to post me online
@@Amanda-xx7sj I’m lucky enough to not have had to deal with this too much but I do have a story where I was 14 in the girls change room and one of the girls who was directly across from me was clearly taking pictures, I assumed of herself and I hope so but I’m not sure. I was literally in my underwear and very uncomfortable with what was going on. From then on I was one of the only girls who used a shower stall to change clothes. At least if she was taking pics in my direction it was like 7 years ago and I obviously changed a lot since then so people wouldn’t recognize my body and it was likely for Snapchat but still (for clarification I’m one to the oldest gen Zs I think,I’m 21.)
As an introverted gen-z entity, I have main character syndrome but backwards
I'm a early gen Z adult (20 yrs old) and this is me
recording in a locker room is a crime almost everywhere
as a planet fitness employee, recording anywhere (even taking selfies) in the locker room would get you banned, account canceled, and potentially get the cops called
Let's test this theory.
Pulls out whole ass book and starts reading it in shower.
Yeah the right to record in public only applies to places where privacy is assumed to not exist right? I'm 99% certain that there is an expectation of privacy in a locker room, right?
I know a bunch of girls who used to do it back in middle school for gym, and I always thought it was really weird but didn't say anything because I was scared so I just changed fast and left😢
@@Kuro7KageGMLocker rooms, bathrooms and bedrooms. If there is an expectation of privacy than filming in said area is a crime. There can be exceptions in some cases, if your bedroom is also an office or a personal bathroom if everyone who uses that bathroom knows about the camera.
The constant fear of being filmed and posted without my knowledge is actually horrible. This shouldn’t be a thing..
I feel this fear SO intensely and I hate hate hate living with the knowledge that I am more likely than not already on the internet in the background of somebodies renaissance fair/theme park/college vlog or whatever, I think if anyone specifically zoomed in on me or god forbid approached me for the sake of social media I would genuinely throw up.
RIGHT!! It is such a scary thing to think about
The idea of having my face on a strangers phone scares me.
I’m just going to start wearing a mask and sunglasses everywhere I go.
@@beedroiij8459i feel like if that ever happens to me i should flip them off and tell them to kts
I suspect the lady at IHOP was probably being loud or dancing prior to that video. I'm sure the girl wasn't staring over one small dance. She probably caught her attention way before the food came to the table.
Probably rehearse or did a few takes before the final cut was posted.
wtf??@ville__
@@buberrycrunchthey're a spam account, I've seen them in a million videos, i would just ignore it
@@15oClockexactly
I’m willing to bet she was playing music. Dude I swear if I hear music from somebody filming something, that and it being loud or played multiple times, I’d give them a shit-eating glare too, that’s annoying as HELL.
The lady in the iHop video absolutely was minding her own business, she didn't get up, or say anything. She just had a reaction to someone being obnoxious.
THISSS!!! They’re such snowflakes istg, if they came up to you and threatened to off your family that’s reasonable
But she just gave a look, ALL OF US do it.
@@crispychichennah I would’ve too. Cuz tf is that cringe ass shit, you doing way too much for some IHOP pancakes
@@narcisis4147 they’re not even good in the first place like 😭
Honestly like I would've laughed at her ass. The lady in the video was just reacting the way I feel like most people would. If someone's dancing in public they get looked at weird. Tiktokers need to understand that they deserve to be judged sometimes 😭
@@FlatAssTruther they need to be hit with that reality check cause they’re pushing way too hard to stir things up 😭😭
15:03 this reminds me of when people would record old people eating alone at a restaurant and say something like “the poor man has to eat alone this is so sad” LIKE JUST LET THE PERSON EAT
Yeah i don't get that. Ppl eat alone all the time, like we need nutrition? Literally what the hell is sad abt that
Honestly eating alone in a restaurant sounds lovely
The best part is them pretending to not be soulless little shits by talking about how bad they feel for the person they're CLEARLY mocking
Exactly! Some people WANT to eat ALONE!
I had a classmate in 5th grade who took a selfie of her and all the people behind her (including me) during a fire drill. She asked if she could post my face on her social media and when I said no, she didn’t post it. An 11 year-old classmate asked for permission to post me, just goes to show how delusional some of these GROWN influencers are.
Honestly mad respect to your classmate, a lot of 11 years old would have done it anyway. Not even to be an asshole or intentionally disrespectful, but just because at 11 you're like "eh it's probably fine," since it's hard to conceptualize what immortalizing your image for millions of people really means. Props to her parents, honestly.
When I was 12 a new student arrived at school and immediately informed any friends she made that she couldn't have her face on social media. Everyone respected that, no questions asked. Turns out she was a foster kid who needed to stay hidden from an abusive family member, posting her face could have ruined her life. Again, we were 12 and didn't know the context, we just respected her wishes. If kids this young can understand that adults can too.
real, because a few times my best friends and friends have asked me the same thing and they actually are nice and blur my face or somethng.
@@hnicholethere were these people in my year 6 class who would post videos of themselves HUMILIATING KIDS at SCHOOL WHILE WEARING THE SCHOOL UNIFORM without permission. I didnt have TikTok ( i wasnt allowed) so i never knew if i had been unknowingly posted online..
A group of influencers filmed me while I was at work two years ago and when I asked them not to film me they were really nasty about it and posted the video to their TikTok where people were calling me a bitch and said if I didn’t want to be on camera I should have stayed at home. I understand you can film in public, but when someone is actively telling you NOT to film them…just fucking don’t!
I'm old enough to remember a time where the vast majority of people were embarrassed to be seen taking selfies in public, let alone entire videos. I miss that brief period of time...
Fortunately In my country its incredibly odd to see people even holding their phone out in public and we don't have to worry about ending up on the Internet against our will
I still hate being seen taking selfies in public unless I'm with a friend.
And hearing your own voice😂
@@zest7063what country are you from? (Only if you’re comfortable answering :) !!!)
I'm from that time and I still feel weird taking a selfie infact unless it's a picture of me and another person I'd never take a selfie in public it just feels cringe.
I'm disabled and I'm TERRIFIED of being filmed in public. I use mobility aides as-needed and people generally tend to assume im "faking" a connective tissue disorder because some of my days are better than others. I'm terrified of being filmed because people rip disabled people to shreds online if they don't fit a specific image.
Same! I'm 19, can walk and use a rollator for chronic fatigue so I don't fit the picture at all. Really scary
On a side note I once met a lady who works in the backoffice for the rollator company and she was super pleased to see a young person using it :)
Same here. I'm 17 and go to a public high school, and I've been relentlessly bullied my entire school experience. I started using a cane recently (two years ago now) due to some chronic joint pain that popped up over Covid, and people around me at school have been terribly mean about it. This isn't a vent; just saying you're not alone. If you're dealing with these issues at school, know that in most states in the US it's illegal to record in public schools, and you can press charges or go to the school board.
Connective tissue disorder gang!!!! Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome?
i’m autistic and also have tics when i’m anxious and the fuckin amount of ppl who record me because i’m an adult who carrie’s a stuffed animal or tic unintentionally it’s ticking disgusting
ok so don't go outside then
Cope in ur house
when i was in high school a girl walking in front of me in the hallway took a selfie, realized that i was in the background of it, said “oh, sorry” and took the selfie again without me in it. i didn’t even ask her to. amazing how easy it is and how that minor of a skill is lost on these people.
As a filmmaker, I think we should force influencers to get film permits and force everyone in their video to sign off on it.
I'm feeling like it's about to start happening. Like if you have a certain amount of followers and post videos regularly are you not considered a film maker? I'm pretty tf sure you are. Maybe not a good one but yeah
Absolutely
Why do only filmmakers have to do this and not the crazy obsessive narcissistic out of control "influencers"?
Nah cuz fr
It actually already is a thing. @lavenderandcambridge, as a filmmaker you well know you wouldn’t be able to simply set up a tripod, lights, audio gear and then record a talent at IHOP. Same goes for recording with a smartphone for a purpose of putting it on social media platforms, especially if you are “an influencer” whose content generates substantial profits for you and/or the platform. While general public thinks of malls, restaurants, and shops as “Public” due to logic of “being in public”, those spaces are not really public. They’re private businesses. The moment you step into those private premises, you are subject to their rules, and can’t hide behind First Amendment argument, if they tell you to stop recording. You may record in private spaces, only if it’s to report on breaking news events, or for private off-line consumption. If you’re recording for Social Media, even if you’re not monetized yourself, those social sites are monetizing your content, hence what you put out is for-profit-commercial-activity, which absolutely requires a recording permit from private business to film/photograph on their property. Influencers have been just getting away with it… for now.
I’ve already seen some trendy coffeeshops and restaurants, put out signs asking to not record other patrons - they’re still cool with you taking a picture of the food you ordered.
Do you remember a trend of photo/video shoots on active train tracks a number of years ago? Well… a number of photographers/videographers have eventually received court summons and had to pay large fines, because unless you’re crossing tracks at a designated crossing, walking on or taking pics/vids on active train tracks, is considered trespassing and is illegal, not to mention it’s very dangerous. They’ve incriminated themselves by putting the evidence online 😂
Besides these already existing private business rules, I’m actually most concerned with how influencers are spoiling various places for anyone else who may want to enjoy them. Even some local municipalities are already prohibiting what’s perceived as commercial activity in their city and state parks. You can’t take a picture of a friend, because the park in the background gets recognized on Insta and you may get contacted by the city with citation for shooting commercially without a permit.
Congratulations to influencers for doing what people with social anxiety have been paranoid about for years! /s
My therapists work just went down the drain as my irrational fear is now rational.
this is so real!!! (they are all laughing at me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! arent they!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Seriously.
As someone with autism, and probably schizoid personality disorder too, this has always been reality to me. Strangers often come up to me and say mean things just because they notice that I’m different.
Just be constantly aware of your looks and appearances and behaviour and focus on how people perceive you and overthink about yourself and every single micro-action you do! It's that simple :D ! /s
“Don’t put on a show if you can’t handle an audience.” Yes! Very well said! 😮💨 We live in crazy times.
I mean the girl was a snob so maybe she shouldn’t have been looking if she didn’t want to be in the show 🤷♀️
@@Hazeleyes_JJstbf its NOT ok to, even if she was looking, to post another video with said woman who didnt consent being the centre of attention.
@Yourfavnextdoorartist1 You have zero say in how people react to you if you go out in public and make a spectacle of yourself. And making them part of your content just because they happen to be their is incredibly scummy.
If she didn't like the fact that someone in the background happened to not look thrilled for her, she could just as easily filmed another video more zoomed in without catching bystanders in the shot. Clearly she thought trying to shame her would make for better content. It's entirely the tiktokers fault
@@Hazeleyes_JJsI would react the same way to an openly obnoxious narcissist.
don't you hate it when you're in public and the public is there
8:02 the fact that she called it "filming in the wild" instead of just "filming in public" as if us non influencers are animals 💀
Klikbeet, a Dutch sketch-channel has a "BN-er video" (BN-ers are known Dutch people) in which they organise a tourbus with the celebrities looking at "average people." (OBN, onbekende Nederlander, an unknown Dutchie.)
The sketch is quite over the top ofourse, with some of the celebrities asking if they can feed them raisinbread on the Safari, one of them brought a gun along (It is not that kindof Safari, they warn him) and them wearing mouthmasks to protect them against all the bacteria on the cheap stuff that poor people own.
It is Dutch, it is called "OBN'er tour | Klikbeet" and who knows, maybe it is even funny without subtitles. It is all fake ofcourse, just a comedy sketch, the celebrities are also poking fun at the paparazzi. They kick off a minor celebrity in the beginning (that they claim is not famous enough to be on it) so I would start the video around 1 minute.
As a teenager, I feel so embarrassed about teen “influencers”
no fr i cant defend them anymore
SAME
Same here
I feel embarrassed to be associated with you.
same
And people say cosplayers are cringe when cosplay creators and cosplayers in general are a lot nicer and considerate compared to these 'influencers'
It's pretty common for people who make no effort to make fun of people who do. It's their way of compensating for a lack of talent (i.e. passion + hard work).
this with furries too. and basically everything else
@inkygloves5197 I know but they call us weird when us cosplayer when we film in public tend to get permission from the people around us or find a spot with little to no people around so we don't upset anyone or break things that belong to others
Frrrr
@@Murder_and_Manga fr the only exception is when there are protesters. then its fair game/j cosplayers are so respectful and nice the nicest people I've ever met are cosplayers
Influencers go out in public to film but are surprised when the public is there
And more surprised when those citizens in public don't want to be filmed, or have their own natural human responses to them.
REAL.
More like they expect the public to be walking props. There to look pretty and yield to you, and nothing else
I think they just forget what outside is, and that it's people-y.
Yea how dare public being in public right!!!
In middle school I was filmed by another girl in the locker room. She was suspended for a few days and I was informed the videos and pictures (that I didn’t know existed) were deleted.
I had an even bigger fear of being in public and being perceived after that.
Let’s not film or take pics of people without their consent, okay?
Do you know why she filmed you?
@@jackiele8311 they were laughing in a group behind a phone, so I assume to make fun of the fat girl who hated getting undressed in front of people. I wouldn't know any other reason they would.
Oof, I feel you, I'm overweight and I wear swimming shoes, some classmates and a girl who had sa'ed me in the past just happened to be at the same public pool while I was there with my mom, I got on the plank to dive and then after the weekend there was a video circulating all around school of me in my one piece swimsuit diving on the plank with derogatory comments edited into the video. I didn't even know because I didn't have a phone at the time, a classmate told me, I found the girl who sa'ed me who participated in the video and yelled my heart out at her.
We later had a conference in school about the illegal actions of filming someone without their consent and the video was allegedly taken down.
@@corahtheskeleton8062 I’m so sorry. You’re beautiful!
@artlygalkd3502 Thank you! So are you! I'm sorry, I didn't mean to vent so much, it just felt nice knowing I wasn't the only kid that got treated badly like this by their classmates
As someone who works in customer service one of my worst fears is that I have to enforce a policy and someone decides to whip out their camera and record me, throw it on the Internet and create this false narrative that I’m an awful human being for just doing my job. It terrifies me to no end.
YES. Edit: Especially because the subjects of these videos get doxxed by people who think harassing others is productive. It might not even be you. Like that American man who got doxxed and harassed because he looked like the (British) guy who was caught on video graffitiing the colosseum.
Someone did that to one of my coworkers and the manager. I wouldn't worry about it too much though because a lot of people who do that kind of thing blow it way out of proportion and just end up making themselves look stupid, and the audience knows it.
Retail is wild man. At my old job I went from bagger, to cashier, and finally to front end manager within about three years. Within that time we had:
- Multiple instances of people banging on the front doors after hours, including a drunk chick that ended up needing police involvement and employees to be let out the back doors instead, for safety reasons
- I was asked to do a carry-out (help customers bring groceries to their car) specifically to *scout the license plate of a suspicious vehicle,* and
- Someone try to shoplift three bottles of booze *inside his pants.*
ok so don't go outside then
Cope in ur house
@@kindauncoolfound the annoying wannabe influencer
The “judgey” woman at ihop has my full support
It's not even judgement, she's not saying or calling her anything. She just looked over and instinctually cringed....just like I would have......
Imagine Ryan Gosling in his prime doing something so cringey embarrassing it turns you off completely. She's not Rysn Godling obviously, but she has a great chest...and what she did she might as well be Warwick Davis from Leprechaun
I'm on her side too.
remember the ladies that made fun of that influencer woman who was filming them without their consent in a seat that wasn't hers? they have my full support. Don't care if they were "mean". fuck that lady. even if they were being rude, she posted it thereby justifying their concerns and annoyances.
*jugdy 😊✅
Yes. I would do the same. And probably say something loud enough for her to hear.
Fun fact: you can get in serious legal trouble in Japan for uploading a picture or video of a person in public without their consent
There was literally an influencer who was mad because she got in legal trouble for recording a couple on the train without their consent (yes, in Japan)
This is also the same case in Austria. I wish the U.S. had better privacy laws in general. The citizens being the product for 99% of what is being sold there is the problem that is causing this kind of a culture.
Same in Germany, we had several talks in school lecturing us in detail about our rights. How even our parents uploading pictures of us online without our consent was something we could fight legally. I'm surprised it's not more common elsewhere because once you consider yourself in this situation it becomes a no-brainer to not allow people to photograph you.
Pretty sure it's the same in France, where you can easily get sued for filming someone without their consent.
But... I'm pretty sure if that was a law in the US, it would be abused to prevent people from filming the police.
"grandpa was mad for no reason" after filming in the locker room.
in the UK, its actually illegal to record within locker rooms, period, and can be (and actually is) used in court.
companies can get shut down, and people can be sued and data protection laws in the UK prevent you from posting those videos/pics, and failing to follow suit give grounds for a lawsuit. and in some cases can lead to account termination on various platforms like instagram and facebook.
people who actually get upset about being told not to film are just the worst. at least here, we can straighten them out a little. "im not filming you" shouldnt matter, the fact that he was filming AT ALL would be grounds for legal action here.
As a teenager I feel so embarrassed by these annoying teen influencers, because they’re not only making annoyances, they’re giving people yet more excuses to shit on teenagers and Gen Z
Also your Kirby plushie is adorable
Honestly same, I’m in 19 rn and I don’t know how old these people are in these clips, but man it feels like they weren’t raised by anything BUT the internet. Like, my parents were good enough to imprint laws of common fucking sense into my brain, even with my ADHD often making me stand out sometimes. Lookin back at how many outbursts I had in high school, I feel so lucky it wasn’t recorded or spread
Don't be embarrassed about others. You're not near them, you're not even with them
I feel the exact same way! These people give us such a bad image when not all of us are like them
Yeah I'm 16 and I don't have social media except yt and Pinterest, I'm so glad my parents didn't let me have instagram and stuff when I was younger! So damaging...
Tbh I feel SO bad for you guys. I’m a millennial and I literally had a conversation last night with a friend I’ve known for decades who was basically my partner in crime all through high school. We were talking about how thankful we were social media wasn’t in our pockets or this huge thing like it is now. It was a big new thing with most of us, but you literally couldn’t be addicted to it because it was tethered to usually a single location in your house. We couldn’t put every single immature thought or embarrassing photo or activity online, and going viral was like an extremely rare concept, it only existed really for certain funny UA-cam videos, and even then it might be like 30k people and that was the biggest it’d get. It’s scary how in like a single decade this has completely consumed nearly an entire generation. And it’s getting so much worse for Gen Alpha.
We got the best of both worlds, got to have MySpace and Facebook (before it sucked) and early Snapchat Twitter and Insta before they became horrible, and got to have our privacy and anonymity.
I feel really bad your generation truly, you guys are basically expected to be addicted to social media and be kind of mindless wanna be influencers. I personally don’t feel that way because I know every individual is different. I try not to judge even when I see kids doing things to record in public, because I know teenagers go through phases and you’re in that weird in between phase of not realllly an adult but not realllly a kid so you’re trying to figure out your lives. That is totally normally!
It’s just becoming harder not to judge when I see 3 kids with their parents at a homegoods and they’re making some way too overly sexy dance tik tok in the pillow aisle. Like you’re 12 wtf!
Honestly you guys all staying away from social media for the most part will do SO much for your mental health in the long run trust me.
My old teacher used to actually lecture us on how illegal and dumb this is. 60 kids in one classroom while a bald Middle Aged man lectures us on the importance of people privacy and online identity’s, the fun part is it actually worked.
It's not illegal to record people in public spaces, it's specifically illegal in certain places such as schools though. It's actually illegal to post a video of a school brawl online not because you're posting a video of people fighting, but because you're posting a video of school kids in school without the consent of the parents.
lol the funniest part of this is the capitalization of “Middle Aged”. It made me picture this set in the Middle Ages lol
@@heyits_katYe Olde English Teacher
Good for him
@@floofzykitty5072I understand that, but where’s the human decency?
They call it "Tik Tok" because that's the sound of bystanders' patience running down.
Exactly!
This was very clever lmao
"Don't put on the show, if you can't handle the audience"
Bars.
Gonna use that.
This is one reason everyone wearing masks for a couple years in public was a blessing. Anonymity was regained for a lot of people.
And for a while it _seemed_ like the people most determined to publicly display what horrific human beings they are were the ones refusing to cover their faces.
@@milescorporosus4058😂
Get another booster😂
😂
A blessed psy ops 😂
@philyeary8809 classic conservative cope
@@philyeary8809you are a joke. Get some help, and re-evaluate your life.
i always think of that video that went viral on twitter where the dude tapped someone on the shoulder and shoved a mic in their face and they got startled and starting crying and everyone made fun of them for crying only to learn they were like deaf/autistic and has sensory/contamination issues with being touched and they was so traumatized by the random hate that their sister had to make a video explaining that they were deaf like?! we live in hell bruh...
Even worse was the comments accusing her of being racist when she was literally just having a meltdown over having ocd and sensory problems from a complete stranger touching her without her consent. The guy himself was pretty chill about removing the video or editing her out if I remember? But he shouldn’t have uploaded her in the first place and I hope he learns from this.
A thing like this happened in Spain, a guy was trying to razor random people, one guy threw the razor to the floor and "broke it", the influencer went mad and tried to throw the razor to the guy
It fell into an old lady, I think she had minor damages
the person who got tapped on the shoulder in that video acc uses they/them pronouns! just an fyi, i’m sure you had no ill intentions and just didn’t know
@@duh6599 influencers fighting with razors now? Throwing them into old women? Time to stop this madness. Sue tiktok for the razor damage let vinnie the pooh cash up for his evil deeds.
@@duh6599INFLUENCER??! That cuts ppl?
My anxiety about being filmed without my knowledge is magnified by the fact that I'm fat. There are entire video compilations dedicated to laughing at people that look like me just for daring to exist in public spaces. Especially if we're unlucky enough to be clumsy on camera and then we're put into "fail" compilations. Knowing I might one day open social media to see my face plastered everywhere and find myself on the receiving end of vicious harassment makes me want to never step foot outside again.
100% agree, I came to the comments to say this. As someone who is fat, I'm terrified of going into a walmart because of shit like "People of Walmart" which is just 90% fat people trying to buy milk and bread. They made a coloring book about us to mock us, for no goddamn reason.
No cause same, especially going out to eat.
genuinely especially because i like restaurants and sometimes I go to them by myself. and i don't use tiktok so i wouldnt even be able to say anything or do anything if i went viral for being the cringefail fattie when i just wanted to eat my dang shrimp or w/e
Same, I may not be a fat person but I am sure as hell not an attractive one. Once, there was three girls in the hallway of my school filming a tiktok. There were no adults around and so they couldn't stop them from recording. I was heading to lunch and they were blocking the only way there, especially because there was a crowd behind them while they filmed the badly choreographed dance. The only gap between them was the one between them, and the camera. I don't know what I was thinking so I walked in front of it. Now I am worried that a video of three basic white blonde girls and a group of annoying high schoolers has posted a video called "Rude person interrupts us while we're doing a dance *emotional* *gone wrong* *not clickbait*"
I'm now scared for my life considering my side angle isn't very flattering and my posture is that of a discord moderater. Yayyy
In Germany it is illegal to film otherd unless they gave consent or they are in a crowd and thus don't stick out. This has so far prevented the worst of this over here. There are people, who think this rule is overbearing and goes against their individual freedom, but I love it because it protects the freedom of everyone around the one individual with a camera and a tik tok obsession. And it protects the individual with the camera from getting slapped in the face and get their camera thrown into a river by a pissed on, not-consenting video subject
At the gym I accidentally walked infront of this one big lady her phone, when I noticed I turned around to apologize to her but she just gave me a smile and said accidents can happen, I gave her a compliment about the amount of weights she could lift and we both went on with our day, it's not that hard to be nice but I guess not everyone has that knowledge 🤷♀️
Restaurants are starting to put signs up, no influencers and no cameras. A step in the right direction
Please we need more of those 😭😭
I'm not surprised that it's coming to this! Unfortunately, another fear to come may be that some customers will see those restaurants as "sus" just because they aren't allowed to go influencer-mode there. Shows how messed-up it is that people can't tell the difference between journalistic integrity and living in a Big Brother society/police-state.
@@Scarshadow666 The problem is that influencers are not journalists. They just want free stuff. And they make a scene when they don't get it. I worked at a restaurant that did a influencer night just so they wouldn't keep trying to get freebies after. The only one that brought people in after that night was a guy that ran a vegetarian/vegan blog
Are we talking about influencers, or journalistic integrity? Because they don't belong in the same sentence. @@Scarshadow666
I was just thinking that gyms and restaurants and other public places should start posting signs that people recording there must have a recording license (or pay a serious fine). If movie studios have to pay for a recording license to film in different locations, these supposed "influencers" also should have to pay the same recording license.
as an autistic person who spent my whole childhood constantly worrying about being rude or weird for simply existing, people knowingly and willingly recording others in public without permission and then not realizing how rude and entitled they're being is insulting on a personal level
My sibling is autistic and people in their school unashamedly just used to photograph them and put them on their snap story with little captions like “they never say hi” or whatever. Firstly, the caption is unfunny, and, secondly, they don’t say hi because you’re rude to them and take pictures of them without consent. I’ve also had people do the same to me. Fucking sucks.
So true! I'm also autistic, and I used to be called weird for getting lost in my head, either not talking at all or never shutting up, etc. and yet here these people are being weirder than I ever was and just... not even realising?
I’m not diagnosed with autism but I’ve struggled with mental health throughout my life and have the similar ongoing fear and paranoia. I will never forget being homeless and unable to move my car, this lady started screaming at me to move it (the brakes were not properly working). I begged her to stop raising her voice bc I can’t process while people are yelling at me, but the yelling continued so I started recording because I like being able to understand situations, even if I can’t process them in the moment (also was scared for my life lol). I told her I struggle with really bad PTSD and can’t have this conversation while she’s yelling at me. She whipped out her camera and told me “maybe you need to go back to therapy if your PTSD is this bad!” It was my last week with my therapist, I had to leave the program as my family was moving away and I couldn’t afford the services on my own. That comment was the one that finally broke me and I shut down, couldn’t use my phone or speak or properly breathe. I forever am afraid of her uploading this video of me hyperventilating and sobbing on the internet, it’s made me scared to have any sort of publicity as I’m afraid she’s going to post one of the most humiliating and terrifying moments of my life. I wish people were more considerate, as I still have a fear of going outside and being recorded to this day, and it truly gets in the way of everything. I’m scared to exist in a workplace and I’m scared to exist outside of one. This common lack of courtesy affects so many people :/
True, I really despise this kind of people. The only time I came even close to posting someone else's photo was when I shared the screenshot of their tiktok page to spread awareness, as she and her bf were harassing his ex and their child, with insults, physical attacks and vandalism, they were absolutely monstrous.
Im sure I'm autistic but I can't be diagnosed- I just have to struggle and be misunderstood my entire life.
Because of influencers, I now have a phobia of public spaces bc I'm scared to be seen in someone's video without my consent - or even worse : being filmed and mocked by strangers. Doesn't help that I'm autistic and sometimes stim or do weird things without thinking about it. I'm legit terrified of the thought of being recorded while I stim and then mocked by strangers online.
Yeah this recent influx of influencers post-covid has made my agoraphobia millions of times worse. Im with you on this.
I get you.
Same. I use to go to the gym until the flux of phones/ tripods got memberships. I use to leave my house and actually try to enjoy it despite my social anxiety. Now I’m over cautious, always store pick up, and attempt to work out in my living room
Same, I’m autistic too but I say f**k em! Do what you wanna do! >:)
Yea and wasn’t there a thing where a person with autism got their headphones taken off them for tiktok content and started crying because they needed them for sensory reasons and then tiktok made fun of them. The internet is sad
That girl, filming herself on The Underground, was incredibly lucky not to have been shoved into the path of an incoming train
This video showed the two sides to the (problematic) influencers of today. The “I went into a public space, and the public had the indecency to be there too 😡” and then the “I went into a public space, and there were people who didn’t want to be in my video/recorded 😡”
Classic main character L
@@Diogenes_ofSinopeI don't think there's a problem with feeling like the main character, but they tend to forget that the main character doesn't act like a twat unless they have a specific arc that resolves that. It's their perspective, it's their life, but the problem is when they don't see how you can't be mad at others for you not being their main character.
@@toxihex876 Main character syndrome is defined as people acting very self absorbed and anti social ways that make interacting with them an absolute pain in the backside.
I don't mean people who just care about themselves in a responsible way.
@@Diogenes_ofSinope nah I get it, I just don't like that it's called that. Also, decent people in general are already way more respectful than they should be, because to us it's unfathomable how so many people can be that inadequate without seeing it as inadequacy, so we feel like there's something wrong with us. It's commonly accepted to shame people who think the problem is in others as if it's extremely hard to notice that is the case, and day in and day out we're told we aren't perfect either so we shouldn't point out obvious flaws in dire need of addressing. I think being more disrespectful and standing your ground when someone crosses even the mildest boundaries, regardless of how kindly they try to ask you if they can, should be something normal. You are your own main character, that's not the problem, the problem is being oblivious to when others should or shouldn't be okay with it. For example, people call taking a picture of something and being in the frame "main character syndrome", when people just want to capture a moment with themselves in it because it's their memory. Imagine looking through old photos and reminiscing of the good times you had there and instead of a younger, happy you, there's just some monument there.
@@toxihex876 I think I mostly agree with that. Especially the last part. It seems to be a trend on the internet to turn normal definitions of words into their stupidest or most meaningless version.
Depending on what you think is a mild boundary I also agree you should be protective of them. But if it's something like "my boundary is that you shouldn't walk into my frame in a public gym", that's not a real boundary.
The internet is genuinely a dumpster fire
In the middle of hell covered in gasoline
@@Ghost-Tea yes
Especially if you know what happened on the polish internet
Fr
I guarantee this is not what the researchers in CERN, Switzerland imagined would become the future of their creation.
Calling them "influencers" is giving way too much credit. They're clowns. They do stupid actions for people to point and laugh at.
Hey! Don't bring clowns down to that level! They're more like cicadas, screaming for attention and bothering everyone around them.
They're not even claiming to be influencers, they're just people who post things online and then y'all interact with them, giving them followers and likes and views. If you want to disincentivize this shit then stop following, liking, watching, or subscribing to these people. It's not like they chose to have thousands of followers.
Influence has a good connotation but by definition isn’t good or bad. Technically they are influencers and are great at it and that’s the problem.
@@Cometsarecoolnot even cicadas bro, just shit.
Just literal piles of human feces are what these people are.
that’s an insult to clowns
my lowest moment that i regret to this day is the picture of a substitute with a bad wig i took and sent to another student when i was 17. I regret it to this day because she did not deserve to be treated like that and was a just sweet lady doing her job. i cant IMAGINE living your life like this without thinking about it at all, taking pictures of strangers on the bus and shit. that was considered ✨bullying ✨ and ✨illegal ✨ when i was growing up! seems like the people who did that type of bullying never grew out of it, to me.
“Don’t put on a show if you can’t handle an audience.” Literally everyone needs to hear this.
Fr fr I cant stand people saying “Im GeTtInG dEaTh ThReAtS” thats to be expected and if you can’t handle hate then go quit
Agreed like these people post something controversial and then when people have conflicting opinions they’re just like “pls im a child” or posting multi paragraph essays about why they’re right to win an argument against a 10 year old
Like theres a reason kids aren’t allowed on social media, because they(most likely) can’t handle an audience
@@Ztmysolos I don't agree that content creators "deserve" to be death threatened, no one deserves that and no one should do that. But I agree that content creators should understand, that they're not safe from everything only because they're "influencers", and they have responsibility for their own actions.
@@froggycolouring I've seen opposite situations, too. When adults bullied and mocked children on Internet, but when they were caught on action, they posted stuff like: "Oh, I'm innocent, I'm just teaching this little shit some discipline!" or "Boohoo, it's an adult site if you can't handle adult conversations then leave it lol :D". Trust me, some adults are so entitled to their age, they think they can abuse a child and get away with nothing, both on Internet and irl.
@@Ztmysolosi was agreeing untill you said death threats, a little bit of hate and criticism is expected but death threats are way way out of the line, you know people get reported to the police irl for doing things like this ☠️ like no
I'm so glad more and more gyms are forbidding people from filming inside. Hopefully more places will follow suit.
I never heard them start allowing it, it wasn't before. At least not where I live.
It's weird, I thought it would have never been allowed in the first place, like in Australia you were not allowed to film or take photos at public swimming pools for child safety, yet instead of nipping it in the but early at gyms, it's gonna be a tough job to take what feels now like a right to film , taken away. But like mobiles in highschool. We weren't allowed walkmans, diskmans and mp3s in the 90s and early 2000s, I have no idea why they decided to say stuff it and let kids bring mobiles to school for last 10years. Now some states are trying to ban them but it's proven so hard to undo a bad habit. The lack of long term vision for some industries.
They don't need to forbid people from doing that, they need to forbid fe males from doing that. Men are not the problem, they are the vic tums.
Seriously, if you want that exclusivity in a gym, then either rent out the whole gym...or own one yourself.
If you're broke like everyone else then go be acting like a millionaire... That's really pathetic. Or, as today's kids would say, "Cringe". 😅
There is only one time it should be okay. People who have coaches for powerlifting that want to see their form, sometimes need them to film it and send it.
If Hollywood has to be permitted and pay for filming in public, so should influencers! At least then they would be justified in their smug faces.
100% agree with this. A lot of these "influencers" do really stupid and irresponsible shit just to get a Tik Tok to go viral. Making them pay for a permit and insurance would put the restraints on some of these idiots, at the very least.
I'm so dang glad posting pictures/videos of others without their explicit consent is illegal in my country, INCLUDING public places. This shit is insane!!
@@gentlechaos5911 what country do you live in
@@kitty79er Germany
Especially how they think they’re bc celebrities. They think they’re all and a bag of chips
9:38 Something I immediately thought of here (and continued to think for the entire rest of the video) is that some people don't want to be recorded because of legitimate safety reasons. Stalkers exist. If you record and post someone publicly like that, it can be a lot worse than them "just" feeling uncomfortable. Especially if they explicitly ask you not to, there could be a legitimate reason, and to post them anyway just to spite them means that you could be the reason they get hurt.
I’m autistic so it already takes a lot of energy to go to public spaces, if I found out I was posted publicly like that I would almost definitely cry
Same here ): I swear as time goes on "normal people" behaviour is making it worse and worse for neurodivergent people
POEEEE
fr, i would literally be so upset if someone posted me online
@@Sigmaology YES POE :D FELLOW BSD FAN I ASSUME?
@@TinSoldier7 exactly, and they’re shaming nd people into thinking that that type of stuff should be normalized and we’re just sensitive
the grossest thing is japan didn't even do the shutter bc of people taking normal pics of random people. japan AND korea did it bc of a serious upskirt pic problem. disgusting.
Japan and Korea are so similar for their crime case against women
@@jirou6228 my brother told me is that women don’t have much justice there when bad things happen to them it’s so disgusting and sad. 😔
My 13 year old niece tried to pull out her phone and record two women arguing recently. I told her I'd take that phone away permanently. Recording bad behavior is even more classless than the bad behavior.
the only time you should record bad behavior is if said behavior is a crime (harrassment, police violence, etc. not shoplifting tho.)
It’s starting to make a lot of sense why we used to treat kids like second class citizens. Their brains are underdeveloped and therefore they are dumb. We all were there at one point. It’s fine. But now adays people pretend their little moron kids are geniuses that can do no wrong. That’s why we are here now. Kids have absolutely no respect. If I stepped out of line my parents made me really regret it. Now parents can’t even spank their kids or it’s abuse. I don’t have kids and probably never will, so who am I to say what’s right? I’m sure being hit as a kid fucked me up in ways, but at least I respected my elders.
Why not shoplifting? @@sophitiaofhyrule
Good parenting right there
Awesome! Good job the way you handled that. More kids need parents like you. Discipline and self control is seriously lacking in this day and age.
It's interesting that these influences don't have enough self awareness to realize THEY are the creepy ones
A friend in her 50s found a backpack at a park. No one was nearby, so she opened it to look for an ID to hopefully return it to its rightful owner. Out of nowhere, a group of teenage girls get in her face with their cameras yelling at her filming her and asking what she’s doing. She was trying to do the right thing. I hate it here.
What the hell ? Oh god...
this is exactly why im glad i live in a country without many influencers that record publicly and even if they do record publicly its usually made fun of
@@nuIlsky same, i live in a country where this type of behaviour would be immediatly shunned down.
Love this reply, I sometimes hate it here too.
This is the moment when you call on them police officer and say you though the backpack had a bomb, idk if it will stop them but it will definetly scared them
Imagine if she had just been like “Oh, I’m not gonna get dressed up, just going to go to the diner as is“ and then got posted for millions to see. Imo you just shouldn’t film other people, especially at that specific angle where it’s clearly a subfocus
@ville__you spam across dozens of videos instead of having healthy hobbies plz get a grip
If she was at all worried about privacy she wouldn’t have stared for a whole minute lmao take some responsibility and go back to your business
Yall r some messed up ppl in this reply ya bunch of ah's
@@OfficerZlock thanks for confirming you use multiple accounts to spam lol I had my suspicions. That's why Adam gets your stuff deleted, cuz it's better, right? Lmao
@@nailinthefashionDon't reply to bots it makes them harder to be taken down when reported.
Not only do Japanese phones have an audible shutter; it’s also common practice to blur out random people’s faces when posting online. Respecting one another is key. If not, at least get their consent.
Edit: thanks for the 2k likes!
Yeah cause of perverts
I noticed that East Asians in general are strict when it comes to this. They always blur people's faces that has nothing to do with their content or/and blur it as sign of respect to their privacy.
But they also have a huge problem w/ hidden cameras and perverts filming in public bathrooms.
Another "stop posting strangers" video showed a woman who got deported from Japan for photographing strangers and posting them with a mocking caption. They were literally just sitting there on the train. I wish all these braindead content "creators" would face equally harsh consequences.
Facts I know the laws and it is illegal to record random people without their consent to being recorded
Can't go anywhere without being filmed. It's as if the world had turned into one giant Airbnb Bedroom. I have very strong socialphobia and havent left my home in 15 years now. Seeing what's going on outside makes me think I'll never leave my home again. Influencers just became insufferable. I might be a exception but I'm certain there's many people affected by those ever filming influencers.
I work at a haunted house and the amount of kids who come through filming themselves being assholes and screaming at performers is sickening. There's always been hecklers but its just getting worse and worse as this behavior becomes normalized.
That's a tough but fun job, whatta load. I'm sorry people are making it lame.
Man, that hurts to hear as an ex haunter...like you said, you'd get the occasional dudebro who would act up to show off to their girlfriend, but I'd be livid if someone came through filming, especially because you know they'd have their phone lights on to 'get a good shot.' 🤬
Yeah man, same. And I've worked in a scare house on and off for a decade. This year is easily the worst. I've had people screeching homophobic stuff at me totally unprompted while filming. And higher ups rarely take actors fears seriously.
@@ShesquatchPineyit CAN be fun... but it's high risk, high skill and often low pay. It's just disrespectful fuckd who are the icing on the turdcake.
A haunted corn maze in my area had to shut down two years in a row because little punks were recording themselves attacking the actors in the maze and beating them half senseless. Just for views and clicks. Makes my blood boil that these little bastards get away with this crap.
I like how in both cases of people ACTUALLY asking for permission, they near on actually just made a friend out of it. People like and respect consideration, who would've thought.
Oh god that is so insane what the heck that is so insane! 😨
Literally
I already have an anxiety disorder, the fact that going into public places is now a risk of being filmed, photographed, pranked, or otherwise harassed by so called influencers has made me teeter on the edge of genuine agoraphobia. Thankfully, it hasn't gotten to that extreme for me yet, but I've definitely gotten close here and there.
Hey man I've been there. Don't stop going out even when it's hard because the more you stay in, the harder it gets to go out
Dude, I stopped going out for 3 years, and that sucks
Keep it up!!! I swear to God just keep pushing, it's gonna be OK
Same I’m glad I’m my country it is not that bad but still i look around me when I’m in public
I feel you. I can't hide my emotions on my face. So I'm a walking target.
There was this case where two prank channel girls were almost executed because they killed Kim jong un's brother through a prank without realizing. The guys who made the channel were actually assassins in disguise who made the girls believe they'll be getting paid for "harmless pranks" and ran a legit channel for a while. They'd analyse the people around to see who they could prank without getting beaten up or sent to jail, and awkward looking people were on the top of the list. Actual prank channels actually do that and it's sickening. It's already awkward enough to have to navigate through people's inadequacy on a daily basis when someone stops you to hit on you or to scam you for money when you don't know if it's a scam. I don't even have agoraphobia and I hate going outside.
14:24 Oi oi! What's this? Negative self image? We'll have none of that!
I was targeted by my school peers recording me without my permission to try and prove that I was faking a chronic pain illness. One where I didn't always need assistance but sometimes do. The entire school relentlessly bullied me for six months until I just stopped using the supports to alleviate my pain. I only found out why through a friend because i refuse to get social media. This type of stuff that some people find funny, makes me sick. Because "exposing me" to a public account did nothing to hurt them and has made living my life harder tenfold.
jfc thats awful. literally no self awareness and no empathy. thank god its stopped, and i hope your far away from those people.
im so sorry you had to go through that. i hope things are better for you now
If it were me, i would slap them with papers proving it
@user-dp9ky9io3t I did get them in trouble. But it was a school so ya know.
reason #5288943 why my kids wont be going to public school
Honestly I am so glad, that it is illegal in Germany to film others without their consent unless they are in a large crowd and don't stick out (like wide angle shot of the viewers at a concert or sports game). So I can still walk in public without being scared all the time of stumbling over some prankster and then having my face plastered all over social media
As a fellow german, yes.
i love this law so muchhhhhhhhhhh
Looking to leave America due to safety reasons and was looking into Germany, really glad to know that exists so cool !
YES!! I already came across people filming in public areas without permission of others a couple of times and someone ALWAYS came up to them and talked to them about it
I hope this is a trend that never comes over here and if it does I hope German people will continue to have an issue with it :')
Same in France. I cant even imagine it being legal, its so upsetting
if that woman was innocently expressing happiness she wouldn’t of recorded it
I mean even then peopel can record genuine happiness but like there's better ways of doing it honestly. or record at different angles so that you aren't recording people
@NotVille_i think its the ihop girl
Innocently?
Ahahahah, sure.. Looks at those jugs!
How funny we are still trying to make it make sense 🤣
It's about the "dancing" pancake girl.
Idk why, but I just found Funky's statement of "Y'all just gotta learn how to behave" funny because it sounds like they're scolding children lol
That’s because they are. People who treat others like this are self-centered children, no matter what age.
I am floored by the number of influencers that don't seem to understand the concept of a PUBLIC. SPACE. Being for people other than themselves.
It's called main character syndrome.
Influencers are one of the many many many things that makes living and working in NYC absolute HELL. I work in a tourist hotspot. If I had a dollar for every camera shoved in my face while doing my JOB, I wouldn’t have student loans anymore. The only influence these people have on me and my coworkers is the influence
to RUN AWAY.
Thank you for highlighting this issue. God. It makes me so heated.
WELL SAID QUEEN/KING
Worse, you literally CAN'T run away when it happens, unless your job has an understanding manager and a backroom to bolt towards. I did the tourist based gigs and god, I feel so bad for you, I would have snapped on someone the first time it happened.
@@Wribread83 for neutrality or ambiguity, use "PRESTIGED MONARCH"
@@Magpiebard I worked food service in a tourist hot spot and I would have 100% walked away if someone pulled a camera on me at work. I'm getting paid $16 an hour this isn't onlyfans. Chances are in my favor that I wouldn't face repercussion because nobody wants to work in this industry anyways.
i wish influencers were also more aware that some people CAN'T be filmed and posted online for their own SAFETY. there are stalkers who can find their victims because some overly-entitled influencer thought they'd get their 15 minutes of fame by zooming in on those people.
Yeah, never thought about that but my mum is one of those people. She left an abusive ex behind when we moved provinces (who only re-entered our lives so my brother could meet his father when he was 12). As soon as I told my mum that he put his hands on me and my brother (I was 8 and saw him beat the shit out of my brother so he threatened me by holding me up by my throat) she and my dad told him to never come back, we took our names out of the phone book, moved provinces and my mum always made sure to use a nickname variant of her real name so he couldn't track us down again. We try to keep a low profile online considering this guy has a history of stalking and domestic violence against his own children (and me who is not his child), past girlfriends (like my mum) and his current wife (who was his case worker btw). He made one attempt to contact us since then through my mum's family but they are tight lipped at least. I'm sure some people are also under witness protection and getting outed online is probably the last thing they need. But hey, they got the views right?..
They don't care and apparently the law doesn't care either because they make it completely legal and their excuse is "you're in public, you have no expectation of privacy". Not that I am okay with it. I am just appalled that they don't care.
@@vanessab2392
My thoughts as well! People making those kinds of statements probably make them from a place of privilege, being able to have a public image displayed and assuming everyone else can handle it like they can.
At some point, they're the same people that are going to have to realize tabloid "journalists" that don't let a celeb take a sh*t in peace aren't only ones with the power to publicly harass people anymore... 0_0
This is a good point. The museum where I work occasionally has members of the press on site for special events, and we have a system where guests who can't be on film for safety reasons are issued a "special guest" tag on a lanyard to wear, so the photographers know to avoid them. It hasn't happened often, but a few times.
Some people even have protected identities for different reasons too, and can't be on social media what so ever.
I found your channel by accident and am thankful I did. You are funny, sarcastic, witty and smart. I agree with this video wholeheartedly.
Keep up the great content!
having photos or videos taken of me in public w/o my knowledge is genuinely my worst nightmare. being neurodivergent means i move and behave in ways that people find "weird" or "sketchy", and every time i go into a public place there's the nagging thought that i might be put online and mocked for just existing in a place with other people in it. i hope one day people outgrow this because it's fucking exhausting trying to mask harder in order to not risk people making fun of me.
exactly. at this point these videos just seem like more of an excuse to be ableist without consequence.
like… it’s terrifying to think that i could get filmed because i’m autistic and visibly queer. and you’re absolutely right-masking is exhausting enough… this is really the last thing we need 😭
It’s also illegal!
literally same!! im terrified someone will tecord me when i'm about to have/having a meltdown
ur so real for this i absolutely relate . that being said thank u for the new fear 😭
I've actually had photos taken of me in public, because I was cosplaying a character. I can confirm it wasn't fun
While shopping in Walmart last week, an elderly man became overheated and started slumping over in his scooter, on the verge of fainting. I remember holding him up with frozen peas on his neck as I yelled for someone to get help, just to look around and see five or more people recording on their phones rather than calling emergency services. It’s disgusting.
That’s wild! I’m so sorry! And I’m glad you jumped into help!
That’s terrifying
That’s really concerning, that man could’ve died and people were just filming it. If I was witnessing that shit I’d use my phone to call authorities so this man could get help. I guess basic human decency isn’t the norm which is really concerning. I love the internet at times like for memes and the ability to connect with everyone, especially family or friends who live far away from me but I don’t like the internet when people are trying to get even a small molecule of clout by harassing people, especially Minimum wage workers trying to do their job.
Wow is this true? Wtf
Probably also something to do with the bystander affect
I think the issue with all of these influencers struggling so hard in public is because they can’t curate that space like the do with their followers. People in public are giving them genuine reactions to their cringe behavior and they can’t handle it.
Yup. They're used to being called amazing for putting on an outfit or making toast on camera. So, people reacting honestly to weird stuff they're doing or walking through their shot because they're in the way of life puts a pinprick in those overinflated egos.
Not to mention, when you’re on the set of a legitimate production, the team has the ability to block off certain spaces to alert everyone that they’re filming in that spot. You can’t just put down a tripod and expect everyone within 10 feet to respect that tripod, lol.
THIS RIGHT HERE
Exactly this.
For the gym videos, I'm glad you included a couple clips of people asking "hey is it okay.." because honestly it's easy to forget that reasonable people still exist.
I honestly think gyms should have it in their membership contracts that if you are going to record you must get the verbal consent of everyone in the frame, have specific areas or times you can record in or just ban recording in gyms altogether.
Omg yes, I hate being recorded and 90% of the time they record the video and leave
My local independent gym has signs up saying you need to ask at the desk if you want to film or even facetime in there, it's really good to see
Totally agree!
This!!!
I think that people who record in locker rooms and bathrooms should be on some sort of sex offender registry.
"She was just happy for her pancakes, leave her alone. You’re all so miserable nowadays" no. She wasnt "happy for her pancakes" she was pretanding to be happy for her pancakes so she would go viral on tiktok. There's a difference.
EXACTLY
FOR REALLL
Ok and even then that's not really the issue😅 but ik for a fact she reshot that shi and had the volume up loud enough to annoy anybody in close proximity 😭
And also not giving a care about the people in the background who may not wanna be filmed at 7:30 in the morning at an IHOP
She was just giving her an easily ignorable side eye
Thank you for this. I'm absolutely Team Scowling Girl. Yes, because I would be rolling my eyes if I saw someone dancing like that at a restaurant (it is cringey as shit), but also because I would be annoyed to be filmed without my consent. If you're going to film people in public you can't get angry when they don't behave the way you want.
If I saw this I'd be scowling and trying to figure out if I need to leave because they may be violent because clearly, they are on something!
She wasn't even being rude or disruptive to the lady doing the weird pancake dance
@@inacattExactly. I think people have forgotten that reactions/emotions are natural 🥹 I feel like culture these days in the US have made to treat others like props, due to our individualistic and bubbled-in behaviors. It’s sad tbh.
Same honestly, she's acting like a kid in a terrible attempt to relate to kids
I'm kinda tied on this on. I mean, sure it was cringe but should we really be judging people for cringe? Idk it just feels wrong especially since the cringe was just a little dance. Maybe I'm not seeing it in the right way, I'm sorry.
I love how your videos are a perfect combination of entertaining, bringing awareness to social issues and inspiring better ways all at the same time 🥰
This reminds me of the time back in middle school all of the girls went to change in the locker room. While we were all changing these two girls started filming a TikTok and dancing. YOU COULD SEE EVERYONE IN THE BACKGROUND. As soon as I saw them recording my friends and I just dropped to the floor and hid from the camera. I don’t remember if they got any consequence from that video but looking back and realizing how serious the situation really was is disturbing. But the amount of entitlement and no self awareness these people have is disgusting.
NO BECAUSE I went through the same thing, but the girls were filming for Snapchat. Then the swimming unit came where we had to be completely naked to change, and I decided that I wasn’t going to change in the locker room anymore
MIDDLE SCHOOL??? Dude that is so dangerous on so many levels, not only is it a changing room but one with other children present- I'm sure they probably didn't fully comprehend the risk involved but if that got posted that shit would be insanely dangerous to everyone in the video
@@Silvermoonwolf At least in my school, there was always a teacher in each locker room making sure no one was fighting and stuff, but she was never in the girl's locker room to stop these things from happening
I'm pretty sure that legally qualifies as child porn, to film nude CHILDREN. Even if the ones doing it are children themselves.
Similar situation in secondary, was part of the art/makeup crew for one year in the drama club. Some whacko decided to take a photo of herself in the girls locker room as soon as someone was changing IN FULL VIEW BTW and it lead to a whole drama of one poor girl getting essentially a raunchy pic taken of her in just her bra and underwear for costume change (her face was blurred tho 'tehe' {fuck that snake, was a friend, but that was the past}), and the whacko kept trying to change her story coz she 'didnt notice wah wah'
I feel so embarrassed even taking a single selfie in public. These people are so shameless
i cant even take a photo with my best friend who i see irl like ~5 times a year max when we're alone in the privacy of our fucking homes without feeling weird (i gave up), i cant even use the word "selfie" without feeling like ass... i feel u so bad 🤘😭
same
#metoo
@@lillith-kagariI barely see my best friend once a year yet I never had a freakin selfie with her in the last 9 years… I mean I love her to bits and pieces and frankly she’s the only person I could call friend. But I don’t need to have a picture with her to let anyone know we’re best friends. But yes, I too feel ashamed to take a selfie in public 😅
Me too honestly
imagine how weirded out that waiter was when they came over and saw a grown ass woman dancing over a plate of pancakes recording
no fr they completely forgot to thank the person who supposedly made them happy lmfao..
I think the waiter just thought “oh special needs fair enough”
That would be where my brain would go in that situation. Not that I’m criticising the disabled just meant I would chalk that behaviour up to that and would move on.
Judging by how the arms come out of frame at an awkward angle instead of the ‘waiter’ being right up at the table, I assume they had a friend get up to reenact it specifically for the video. Maybe they even did this multiple times and that’s why the woman was already watching. Just annoying behavior.
@@Im.A1ex Worse to imagine, she asked the poor underpaid waiter to redo the shot until she got the "right one".
The funny thing is, since she recorded at a booth, the camera angle could have been straight at her and no innocent bystanders would be in view. She could have even cropped the frame to get a sliver of aisle to emphasize that she is seated at a booth and the worst thing that could happen is seeing an elbow, a leg or a passerby for a second, in view. This critique is on point about how other people are being treated like props because the content creators really believe that they are THE STAR of the show and they can do whatever they want in a business or public location.
Omg thank you so much for this! I've been watching your videos for a few months and this is the one that made me subscribe. You're just becoming more and more relevant and I'm here for it!!
"this MF reading a WHOLE ASS BOOK ON THE BUSS😭" what was he supposed to do? Cut it in half?
the person recording was probablt shocked it didnt have subway surfers and cs surf on it
@@Kerm_ie LMAO
The poster's most interactions with a book is probably him seeing others read it when they rarely glance over at others from their self aggrandizing
@@HierophanticRose lol
lmao public transport is the one place where im bored enough to read like wtf is so weird about that
Not only is it an ethical concern about filming people in the gym, it’s a safety concern. Most people chose a place near there they live. You have no idea what’s going on in their life, there could be plenty of reasons why they don’t want it to be publicised where they live.
This is actually a very legit thing and why Police cant just release cctv footage or show the public.
If you ever went into a shopping centre and asked to check footage of some guy who just shop lifted or backed into your car etc, you will be told to give your insurance details instead.
The reason is because you might actually have orchestrated the entire thing to pull a robbery and yes it really does happen to banks and jewellery stores.
The worst ones are child predators and kidnappers/sex offenders who try to access the footage to locate a space to perform their dirty deed.
excellent point!
I came here to comment this exact thing
THIS
Can we also point out that the lady at IHOP literally didn't do... anything? That person didn't go up to the influencer and harass them, or yell at them. All she did was look at this random person dancing weirdly, have a "negative" facial expression, then go back to eating her meal.
Like... again, what did she do?
She didn’t mine her business
@@BeingVeganllc Shes the star of the second video. How is this not her buisness all of a sudden? 😂😂
@@BeingVeganllcif someone doesn’t even care to avoid filming you while you just want peace and quiet to eat your pancakes, then I think it’s her business. And like she said, a staged performance, overdoing her moves, literally screaming “HERE I AM! LOOK AT ME!” will make anyone look. And whatever their reaction should be expected. This is the real world. The people criticizing her heavily seems like they’ve never touched grass
@@BeingVeganllc how is someone recording you none of your business. Also it's "mind", not mine
So you're telling me that you've NEVER paid attention to what other people around you are doing?@@BeingVeganllc
You are the best.
The one who is clearly saying facts about common sense.
Especially when you were talking about gym, I could feel you cause I'm scared of being recorded in that state and I really want to go to the gym, but I feel anxious every time.
People that think “just because something isn’t strictly illegal,” that somehow makes it socially acceptable in all contexts are just the worst…
Makes you wonder what else they'd do if it was "technically not illegal" like what if 16 is the legal age in your country are you marrying a child?
@lillypharaoh5945 That is exactly their logic. Ive litterally seen them say that about countries that legalize child marriage and shit. The absolutely would
I should also mention that there are actually not as many “public spaces”.
Restaurants, gyms, malls and stores are often PRIVATELY OWNED. This why they can deny service to certain folks (see the “No shirt, no shoes, no service” signs and the “No Pets” except for service animals).
You can ask a manager or security to basically tell these influencers to stop or leave.
You’re not a Karen for not wanting to deal with an influencer.
That woman at the IHOP bruised the influencer's ego by not playing along with her video, so the influencer made a joke out of her.
Like that pretty popular girl that isn’t praised by someone thus she targets the individual and has her friends/white knights bully u.
Because people don't want to be recorded in public
The psuedo-influencer made a joke of herself.
I'm more interested in her than the dancing clown.
@@SummerSun-sg3wfRight It's called invasion of privacy. You can do what you want in public but that doesn't mean others can't have an opinion on you and your stupid actions. Just because got upset because one single person gave you a weird glance doesn't mean you should punish them by exposing them on the internet. People will say she should mind her own business, which I slightly agree but at the same time if someone is constantly being rowdy right next to my table while I'm eating of course I'm going to look and be a bit judgmental. The only people I don't usually care is if it's parents with their children because children will be children. Grown adults need to be aware and considerate of other people space and privacy.
Just found you today and I've been hooked. Watching video after video. Yeah ur sarcasm is unparalleled and I'm loving it.
As someone who ended up in the crosshairs of a social media influencer who regularly posts pictures and encourages her followers to harass and dox them, this video is on point. They’ve made my life miserable for months and I’m planning on legal action
I hope you win your case. Hug.
Good luck in your case. Take her every penny and show no mercy.
I hope you win your case.
Good luck with your case
Sue
A lot of people talk about how lockdown affected young kids' abilities to tell what's appropriate to do in public, and I think that applies to teens/young adults too; we're so used to being in our own personal bubble away from others that we can't see them as anything but a prop or a hinderance now. So now my biggest fear is going on TikTok and seeing myself as an unwilling participant in something I didn't want to be in, for the same reasons said in the video.
i feel like this went on before covid just got way worse since.
I don't think we should give these people excuses to hide behind. Like, teens who were teens during Corona aren't socially inept because they didn't get to interact during Corona. They were humans interacting with humans and learning what's proper for at least a decade before Corona. If they unlearned ten years of "functioning in society 101" in two or three years, that's not normal. I'm saying this as someone who was a teen during that time and has autism to boot. (Mentioning that because apparently we "don't understand other people" and "have little empathy") I still know that filming others without consent is fucking weird. They should, too.
@@joethewolf3750
(this is a very small side note from a fellow autistic person)
I don't remember where I read it but I'm pretty sure I've seen several sources claiming it's actually the opposite; we (autistic people) tend to have more empathy than others have by default. It's related to how we often form quick attachments to inanimate objects like how I named my stress ball lol.
@@travelingbard6161 oh I know, I'm definitely empathatic to a fault but the stereotype is still that we just don't get allistic people, mainly due to lack of empathy and less because their behavior is just illogical to us.
I believe, like many symptoms, this is on a spectrum and both extremes (so more and less empathy than average) are a symptom of autism. But I don't have a source for that either.
Replying to the original comment now,
I partially agree but I also think, as an autistic person who has grown up *mostly* on the Internet, (I got unfiltered internet access around age eight in the US where you can easily lie about your age on just about any site and kept that Internet access for the rest of my life up to now - eleven years on the eighteenth), I also just didn't have many friends in school.
What I've noticed very strongly in myself is, despite my empathy, I don't know how to act in public and I get really shy to talk to people because I get really passionate about things and can get too excited about things the other person doesn't care about so I don't know how to talk to people and I *really* don't know how to move my body through space correctly.
Despite the fact that not everyone is autistic, I do think a lot of people are in similar-ish circumstances with their upbringings. Additionally, influencers with large follower counts adapt to certain amounts of fame and don't seem to know how to process it in a healthy way.
A lot of these people are young and what people forget to realize about young people is that your brain is still physically developing to even be capable of solid critical thinking skills. That doesn't excuse their lack of empathy but it does explain why they're making bad decisions for attention.
They live on the internet and the internet has different rules than the real world. On the internet, they're the center of their own little bubble, meaning they have so many eyes on them. As teenagers and very young adults still developing critical thinking skills, they process their bubble in a way that allows them to transpose it on the world and they accidentally begin seeing themselves as the main character, able to do whatever they want because the world revolves around them. It's their social media bubble and whatever it touches, in their eyes, is also theirs. If we show up in the background of their bubble, we've entered their space even if we were there first.
I do think the quarantines have impacted that, by some amount, giving people time at home to become more comfortable with being "cringe" - something with good and bad results for society at large - and, also, driving more people to want to become influencers for various reasons.
Since social media disconnects you from the real world so much, it makes sense why this generation is acting this way. It does seem like empathy is on a downward trend while apathy or even egotistical behavior is on an upward spiral. Hopefully as the internet becomes older and older, people start to understand how to use it better.
I was filmed by a teenage girl once while I was at work in a restaurant. She was goofing around with her friends and they were being annoying and trashing their table, but when she filmed me (I was behind the register helping customers), I just got angry at the respectless behaviour, and I got scared because I don't want my face on the internet (apparently it's hard for people nowadays to realise that some people actually do not want their face all over the internet). I felt horrible for having to ask her to delete the video but I did it anyway and it baffles me that I was the one feeling horrible, while she was the one that should've felt ashamed for her respectless and mindless behaviour. It scares me and makes me angry that social media and influencers endorse this kind of behaviour in people, especially young children and teenagers.
That’s super crappy they were making a mess, that they wouldn’t have to clean up and doing it to get a reaction.
I totally feel you. On all my social media accounts, I only have about 2 pics of myself, that way my friends know it is me but I’m reducing how much of my likeness is out there. With AI, data scraping, and weirdos, that is important to me.
Also, a couple months back I went to the coffee shop near my house at 6am. I decided to wear my pajamas and get ready when I got back because I’m usually the only one there at that time.
These 14 year olds come in and stand right in front of me and start Instagram live streaming themselves dancing. The coffee shop is 3 floors, I think I was the only one there. I asked if they could give me some space and stop filming. They gave me butthole face but moved to the other room.
When they left, the barista quietly said those girls go to her daughters school and drive her crazy.
I’m sorry you had to deal with that. I hope that doesn’t happen again.
Your famous well done
Even if they deleted it they could have recovered it from their recently deleted
Yes, in Japan the camera installed on phones must make a shutter sound, but as they used to say “There’s an app for that” and there are countless shutter silencer apps.
“Girlie-pop, you were throwing it back at the Sam’s Club; that is not the correct club to be doing that in.” 😂👌
Another rule for recording outside: If you're going to "dance" In the middle of a crosswalk, don't expect traffic to slow down.
Expect them to speed up and do humanity a favor
I love the quotes around dance. That is exactly right. "Dance"
filming for extended periods of time in the middle of a crosswalk full stop tbh... I was in tokyo and this influencer stopped in the middle of a busy crosswalk in front of me, elderly pedestrians and waiting traffic to film their travel tiktok?? the entitlement
good riddance
@@jammity3917 I would just push her and walk 😆
Very cool of us as a society to essentially create a state of surveillance where you constantly have to be wary of being recorded all for nothing but likes on silly apps.
Forget the government spying on us; the real fear is being accidentally doxxed or degraded by millions just from some kid filming you in the background of their shitty 30-second dance
lmao tin foilers paranoid about the surveillance state when its been influencers the whole time for the past years
We planned for war, we planned for nukes. We didn't plan for 13 year olds with iPhones.
Why are we living in a Black Mirror episode dude 😂😂😂
@@iamnemoo The surveillance state doesn't even have to do anything now because influencers are happy to narc on you themselves to get a few likes.
Baudrillard panopticon, look it up!
I have SOOO much respect for the influencers that ask people if they want to be in the background of a video. They make me feel safer. :]
i find it so interesting that people think they have the right to film people. i've literally seen me and my friend on other peoples tiktok making fun of us (they live in our area). he was so upset by it and it breaks my heart.
I mean, using your picture without your consent is illegal pretty much everywhere. Have you tried reporting the videos?
@@multifandomperson8703 we did! they were taken down but now every time we go out together he gets really scared and worried. we did show the videos to our local police and such, it's better now but it's sad to see how worked up he gets.
@@attaboy_murphy Sorry that happened mate. But y'all did everything right, well done
@@multifandomperson8703no, it isnt. You have no expectation of privacy in public places in the US.
@@multifandomperson8703 thank you!
The girl in the subway grinds my gears every time. You can’t expect anyone to not walk in front of your camera; people got places to go and things to do…
The crazy thing is the person who tweeted that is not the girl in the video she has a different account
She should count herself lucky no one pushed her setup out of the way
@@DoritoBot9000 this, or stole it or used it as a distraction to find your stuff and steal it when you're not looking among other scenarios tbh, some people would be that bold
The fact that “ civilization “ was brought into the picture when that lady was literally standing from what I assume a very busy walkway for people to, you know, WALK through, and being in their way just for some “ aesthetic “ pics. Like lady cmon now. UR being the uncivilized one.
I was at Target the other day and there was a kid, probably college age, minding his business and doing his job. Two girls, about his age, were giggling and taking pictures of him. When he looked in their direction, they giggled and one of them gasped, "He looked at you!" They were being super obvious and super oblivious. His crime? Being tall and albino.
Jfc people are fucking creeps
Some girls did the same to my bf while he went grocery shopping for us. He has a very noticeable limp and scar up his forearm after a car accident earlier this year and he's very insecure about both of them, on top of the fact that he has social anxiety and doesn't like to be recorded at all. I wish I'd went with him because he came home distraught and paranoid about it because they followed him around the whole store. People should really mind their business, like don't they have lives too?
Yeah. I mean, people have been doing the looking and giggling thing for a long time now, (not to say it isn't bad, just to be clear!) but the filming adds another extra layer of sh!t.
Something similar happened to me, I was eating dinner with my boyfriend and best friend and looked up and saw these girls taking pictures of me. They stopped when I finally noticed and they saw me look directly at their screen to see myself on it. It’s degrading when people are so quick to take pictures to laugh at you, it ruined my night. All because someone looks different they think it’s ok to point and laugh
Our youth is basically turning into the stereotypical Chinese tourists lmao
“You just going to walk away?!”
Me starts sprinting away as fast as I could 😂😂😂
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Stopped taking “Karen” seriously after a family’s father called me one after I asked him to please tell his kids to stop throwing rocks at ducks LOL
Karen went from "someone with an unreasonable request" to
"Ew a woman is angry? Ugh!!!" Literally just another shitty way to judge women for having emotions, similar to what the term hysteria was used for.
I hate it. I've heard stories of mothers panicking over their children's safety and getting called "Karen", it's so gross and weird that the Internet comes up with new terms to shame women like at least once per year.
@@shayerahol6434 I know it's insane.
Who the fuck is like, "Y'know what I want to do today? Throw rocks at ducks"
@@shayerahol6434Karen actually went from "white woman weaponizing her privilege to send authority to kill/arrest Black people" such as the cases of Black people existing in public spaces or the historical case of Emmett Till.... to "unreasonable white women having tantrums against customer service workers", to "white women who have tantrums", to "anyone who complains to any capacity". THAT is the true and sad progression.
@@shayerahol6434 Well said, that's exactly what "Karen" is. I'm tired of seeing and hearing it, our society is becoming more and more pathetic.
I hate it when an influencer is shoving a camera in someone’s face and asking unnecessary questions, and when the person asks for them to go away, the influencer makes fun of them. The reason why we say “touch grass” is because some people forget what personal space is
"touch grass" is for chronically online people, it's a saying meant to be like "go outside for once",
so i think you misunderstood that.
@@Bunny-pg8rfidk why but I thought “touch grass” was ppl telling others to smoke weed and chill out, but it also makes a lot of sense that it would mean to go outside 😭
@@Bunny-pg8rf yeeeeeah exactly I have no idea how "touching grass" would make someone aware of ANOTHER person's personal space haha was this loss in translation from millennials to zoomers or whatever they're called
I don’t think u know what “touch grass” means.
A simple way to avoid those types is to actually just walk away from them, and not shout at them or give then any type of reaction unless they get too close. I've had weirdos follow me in public before (not filming.) When they get closer to me I yell I DON'T KNOW YOU and you would be surprised what an effective deterrent it is to these creeps. I can't help but think of Bobby from King of the Hill tho. Lol.
I have agoraphobia, I've been working with my therapist to unlearn the idea that everyone's watching me or wants to do harm. Recently we've switched tactics, because that's no longer an irrational fear.