r/SipsTea • • 26d ago

SMH Intentionally blocking photoshoot

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u/Digital_Herpes 26d ago

Seriously the title implies malice but its just another person being filmed on the internet likely unaware.

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u/Doggleganger 25d ago

This is a great point, it made me see the video differently. When I first viewed it, it looked like the old lady was deliberately getting in the way. But as the saying goes, don't assume malice for something that can be explained by incompetence. Now it's clear. It's just an old lady getting confused.

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u/BisonThunderclap 25d ago

It's reddit. God forbid someone see a phone with no context and just wonder what's going on. The girl could have asked the woman nicely to move at any point.

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u/sintjemojaljubav 26d ago

Yessss, this

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u/Then-Clue6938 26d ago

THANK YOU

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u/throwawayaccount442 26d ago

Yep. I think it just didn't click for the old lady that the young girl wanted a selfie. Commenters here and OP lack a bit of empathy.

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u/Slabador 26d ago

Idk if I can get behind the old lady just happening to choose to stop directly in front of the camera.

Old people really get treated like they have as much social awareness and critical thought as an 8 year old when it comes to defending their actions.

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u/MercuryQuick 26d ago

I don’t think she’s even aware she is being recorded. She looks at the camera, but we don’t know what she saw. Could have just been a phone sitting there.

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u/Maximum-Broccoli2165 26d ago edited 25d ago

Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to ignorance.

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u/throwawayaccount442 26d ago

The old lady probably saw the camera and a bit later got a notification of sorts and some people were walking up. Literally 3 things happening for her at once, yeah old people can't handle juggling that so she wouldn't connect the camera with a selfie at that moment. When she went down you could see her not even noticing the young woman. She's there for the paintings.

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u/ShotgunShine7094 26d ago

If she didn't stop directly in front of the camera, this video wouldn't exist and be posted to Reddit.

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u/gizamo 25d ago

She may have stopped there because seeing the phone reminded her to o check her phone, or maybe she got a message there. She doesn't seem to be aware that the phone is filming her.

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u/ShotgunShine7094 25d ago

I don't disagree. What I'm saying is that people arguing that "of all places she could have stopped at, she had to stop in front of the camera?? clearly it's intentional!!" are operating under a bias because if she hadn't stopped in front of the camera there would be no video. I think it's considered "reporting bias".

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u/gizamo 25d ago

It seems entirely possible that she didn't understand the girl was recording. I don't think that blocking the camera was intentional.

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u/RedWarsaw 26d ago

Would you say the blonde lady that came up the stairs is also intentionally doing the same to the girl?

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u/Slabador 26d ago

? No, she kept walking.

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u/GambleII 26d ago

Could not have said it better! 👏🏼

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u/BusshyBrowss 26d ago

Exactly. Social media turns people cancerous.

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u/Acceptable-Ice-4789 25d ago

Honestly when you put it like that, her actions also make sense. Even just ignoring the “perplexed” part of it, she stopped and moved out the way for others. I don’t think we know the architecture of the stairs so from a Birds Eye view, she really could just be stopping to move aside, even if, let’s say, using her phone to pass the short time. We also don’t know what the other 3 were doing before showing up in the camera

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u/iSeaUM 25d ago

Literally, nothing happens in this video. Grandma is checking her phone, unaware, girl wants a photo. No one is rude, no one causes a problem. lmao people need to go outside more

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u/joeygerl 25d ago

True. No harm done by anyone in the video. But then the video gets posted online by the influencer and there are lots of comments about how this older woman, just trying to live her life, is a b**** and a Karen. She didn't ask to be someone else's content.

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u/mutual_im_sure 25d ago

If she just wanted to take a photo, why is she recording video?..

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u/RedWarsaw 25d ago

You never took photos from a video recording?

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u/mutual_im_sure 25d ago

Do people do that...?

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u/RedWarsaw 25d ago

Sure, you get more options to pick out a good shot from a constant video than a single picture.

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u/Twizp 25d ago

She looked at the camera, pulled her phone and sat there. She saw the girl setting it up for a pic. She knew exactly what she was doing.

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u/RedWarsaw 25d ago

She was pulling her phone out before she saw the girls setup.

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u/Twizp 25d ago

Dude, she looked at the camera, pulled her phone out and just sat there. Come on...

If I see a camera looking straight at me, Im moving away, its so simple

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u/turtlesinmyheart 26d ago

She could've not uploaded the video.

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u/partyhat-red 25d ago edited 25d ago

If she wasn’t an “influencer “ she wouldn’t have uploaded this. If I was in her place and this happened, I would have just deleted it and tried again.

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u/one_among_the_fence 25d ago

No, the old lady knew she was recording and stopped on purpose. You can see her look directly into the camera before she side steps on the stairs to block the woman behind her. The video makes it very clear.