r/SipsTea • • Aug 30 '26

SMH Intentionally blocking photoshoot

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u/hoenndex Aug 30 '26

Could this be an example of a misunderstanding? The lady is looking mostly downwards, didn't even take a look at the younger lady. She wants to go down but stops, and moves to the side, letting a bunch of people walk by before she too descends. The whole thing is at most 30 seconds long. She seems to notice the camera but i have doubts if she understood what the young lady was trying to do. As soon as the people cross, she goes down and exits the video frame. If this was malicious, wouldn't she have stayed longer in the path of the camera? Also, it doesn't seem like the young lady says anything, so how is the old woman supposed to know?

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u/BlueFeathered1 Aug 30 '26

Shhh, don't want to suggest context that would possibly invalidate hating on an older person here.

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u/Puzzled_Board_6813 Aug 30 '26

Tbh the narrative proposed makes me think “fair play; these people that turn the world into their photo/streaming opportunity are obnoxious”

In fairness, the lady that’s setting up a pose (using video) doesn’t act obnoxiously beyond taking over that space

ETA: Maybe the ambiguity in how it can be viewed is deliberate, and we’re buying into engagement bait - what a world we live in

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u/BlueFeathered1 Aug 30 '26

It is ambiguous, which I guess makes it especially clever engagement bait.

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u/Squonk_Idonk1273 29d ago

Yeah how dare people want to capture good photos as memories but are there alone and thus must improvise, screw them!