What do you say when people ask you to move so they can take a photo? Not because you're standing between them and the camera but because you're standing in a place they want to take a perfect shot for their socials?

[Wreckshaw]

I have never encountered this before but I had it several times today. I am on holiday and went to a very nice place for a day trip. I've been there before a few years ago and people didn't act like this then. Obviously people took photos - I take photos too. But this was different. There were small groups of two or three people in various places who were repeatedly posing, over a prolonged period, and repeatedly taking pictures - I assume for socials. When I was in the areas, they asked me to move "because it's a photo taking spot". One guy said I was "in the way" and I pointed out that I wasn't and he was perfectly free to take whatever photos he wanted just as I was free to go about my business. I was pretty taken aback to be honest and couldn't think of a better response. I'll probably just go for "fuck off, you're chatting shit" next time, but what do other people say when they encounter this vapid bullcrap?

People are too entitled to feel embarrassed anymore...the decline in society is sad and infuriating to see.
I was on the train last weekend and the amount of young people who were sat with their feet on seats....on a busy train!
You see people with bags on bus seats just because they don't want anyone to sit next to them....on a public bus!
I can't stand it 😒

That’s ridiculously entitled!

A complete non response is always interesting and v frustrating for the cheeky article who asked you to move.

I was overly accommodating last year to a couple of people dressed up to the nines hovering near my table outside the very pretty and highly Instagrammable Biscuiteers in Victoria (Eccleston Yards). I asked if they wanted to use the table to take their photograph and picked up my cup of tea in one hand and cake in the other and moved out of the way.

They then proceeded to set up a tripod and take photos from different angles and poses at which point, after a few minutes of this, I said "well I think that should do it" and sat down again.

The mildly-famous cherry blossom in Greenwich Park is just about to open and shortly it will be swarmed with blossom-hunting influencers dressed in pink, and tourists, jostling for the best shot.

Jo

I was in Cornwall last year with my dd. She had parked me on the beach front in looe in my wheelchair while she went to get us ice creams. A fella just walked over, undid my break and wheeled me out the way. Not a word said from him. I was saying “wtf are you doing”. He carried on snapping his pics. My dd gave him the dressing down of his life lol. Some people have the cheek of the devil.

This is absolute nonsense. They don't own the space, and there's no such thing as a "photo-taking spot", it's a public space. It's outrageous for them to imply you are in the way. Stand your ground, refuse to move and just do your own thing.

Was in Rio a few years back and went to see the Christ the Redeemer statue. Full of women (it’s never men) posing with outstretched arms. One guy was lying full length on the ground to take the photo. “Never mind Jesus, look at meeeeeee!”

That is disgusting.

@Showerflowers Blimey that is really shocking. I'm sorry. What is wrong with some people? Pity you couldn't report him for assault or something.

I watched this happen once last summer (I was sitting on a bench a bit over while DH and DCs were walking around) a tourist asked a family to move from the scenic viewpoint so she could film it. We live in NI and the “aye dead on” whilst completely ignoring her thereafter until finished didn’t seem to be the response she was hoping for.

I live near the Beatles zebra crossing. All f'ing day long there are tourists walking and stopping for a photo. It's super annoying as a driver.

I was recently travelling solo in a part of the world where it's common to hire tour guides. I'd been to that region a fair amount in the past. This time the guides seemed to think that their job was to take photos of me. I had to be very clear that this was not what I wanted and I'd hired them for their knowledge (which they did have, but it seems that most people now are not interested in that).

This has never happened to me. If it did, if the person asked me politely and there was plenty of space for me to continue what I was doing/looking at without inconvenience, then I would. If they were rude, entitled or expecting me to leave a spot I'd chosen to stand in that wasn't hogging more space than was fair, I would simply ignore them or point out that I will move on when I'm ready.

It's tricky in London, there can be tons of tourists taking photos, and I'm just trying to get to a meeting. I try and stay out of the shot, but there are so many sometimes, it's impossible.

It would depend on the context - if I was just standing there for a moment, I'd move. If I were in the middle of a picnic with my family, they can fuck off.

Ignore them and feign not understanding them.

DH and I were on holiday recently and came across this a few times.

One place we were at, there was a certain spot where people were taking photos holding out their hands to make it look like they were holding this rock in the background. It was chaos, I thought a brawl was going to kick off. Lots of pushing and shoving. DH and I moved round the beach a bit and took a cheesy selfie with the same rock, just not the same angle

I get it a lot at home too, I live in a holiday area and we have a big event once a year in my town. There’s always someone asking you to move so they can take their perfect photo. Lots of the bars and restaurants put out these kind of photo opportunity props and you end up not being able to walk down the high street without getting in the way of someone’s photo. Most people accept it will happen, but you get the odd one who expects the world to come to a halt while they faff and pose for 15 minutes.

@KimberleyClark wow! That’s actually one of the most bonkers dangerous places in Rome to do that!!!

😱I am completely shocked someone would do this, as if you were an object. Good for your daughter.

I think I would class that as assault.

That is awful! I would have been shouting at him definitely. Some people just don't care!

It really is.

Ive had the opposite where we told some young adults to stop posing and taking stupid modelling style at Auschwitz in Poland and to have some respect.

I don’t wait for people to take photos anymore, I’m sick of it. The entitlement of people has got ridiculous. The worst is when they stand on a path or in a doorway expecting everyone behind them to just wait

Get my phone, point it at them and loudly say “And here we have a influencer in the wild, watch as these parasites majestically stomp around like they own the place, whilst onlookers think what a fucking knob”.