The Influencer APOCALYPSE

*distant rattling sound of millions of tripods being adjusted* Dear God.
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[funkyfrogbait]

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.

[FadedThreadsAndFeelingDead]

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.

[alltheallofme]

“Don’t put on a show if you can’t handle the audience” is such a raw fucking line

[Tffan]

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

[trstmeimadctr]

recording in a locker room is a crime almost everywhere

[Amanda-xxsj]

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.

[MaximeChose]

The constant fear of being filmed and posted without my knowledge is actually horrible. This shouldn’t be a thing..

[moth.leaf.]

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.

[Blob-tfgi]

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

[AikoInnit]

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.

[Disthron]

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.

[j.j.]

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...

[jayjohnsonPS]

Best line in this whole video, “This isn’t a movie set and your not the director”

[kura]

Influencers go out in public to film but are surprised when the public is there

[rinkagamine]

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.

[naylizbeth]

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.

[HENTAIsamus]

"Influencers and the term itself are a mistake."
Hayao Miyazaki, somewhere in his foretress of solitude.

[sapiwette]

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.

[EdwardianRainbow]

As a filmmaker, I think we should force influencers to get film permits and force everyone in their video to sign off on it.

[TheSleepyGayArtist]

As a teenager, I feel so embarrassed about teen “influencers”