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?

Seriously? How did you read the op and have that as your takeaway of what was being asked???

I’d tell them to fuck off

I see this all the time and it’s getting worse

Plus people hogging things for ages is part of the issue, as they don’t move on and let other people have a go. DP and I had to queue up with small kids to get a photo with Paddington bear at Paddington station as a small group of 40 something adults spent 20 mins taking individual and group photos with all the described social media poses with the bear statue.. whilst the kids just stood and waited and we took one photo that took 30 seconds. They are small kids they just wanted a photo with the bear. But we had to stand and watch a bunch of fully grown adults prance around looking ridiculous.

We went to another city on a trip and there was a viewing platform and people would just stand on it for ages and ages messing around with photos so no one else could look at the view it’s so rude. They aren’t even looking at the view and you have to stand their patiently waiting for them whilst they look ridiculous

My favourite is the Trevi fountain and watching people get hauled off by the police and security guards for being completely disrespectful and even getting into the fountain (or letting kids in it). We just sat and watched them all get a high pitched whistle and forcibly removed 😂

This is what I do if someone or something is in a photo, I just get my iPhone to remove them in the clear up function!

Tell them to get up early if they wish to avoid crowds. Or just ignore.

I was in Hamley's with my then 5 year old looking at a huge Lego statue of Hagrid when a group of 3 or 4 teenagers came over wanting a photo. One of them shouted "can someone get this kid out of the way?". I pointed out that it was a toy shop, for children, and they were extremely rude. Luckily she did look shamefaced but I was really cross. The next day in The Natural History Museum we couldn't get near anything in the dinosaur area because everyone was standing, with their backs to the exhibits, having a photo taken. Heaven forbid we should read the information board and look at the dinosaurs.

I just remembered in Paris in 2023 I went with DD and we went to a cafe near the Eiffel Tower and we witnessed a girl doing a photoshoot (with an iPhone) on a zebra crossing for a full half an hour. She held up all the traffic people were going mad. I still have this video as I was so fascinated I was going to try to find out who she was 😂

I don't say anything, because it's never happened.

I would very likely just move out of the way though. Why wouldn't you?

I can't envisage someone politely saying 'could you move aside please so I can take this specific photo I want' and me telling them 'no I'm staying where I am!'

At the Sagrada Familia with my elderly (and, at the time, frail) mum. In the time I’d stepped away to take the photo I turned round to find a tour guide had moved her (hands on tops of arms) so his group of tourists could get their photos.I marched back over - shuffled her back in to place and announced loudly (in my best school girl Spanglish) that she had as much right to stand there as everybody else. Oooh the looks I got, but you don’t manhandle anyone out of the way , especially not my mum!!

I find this kind of behaviour so depressing. People taking a photo of something to tick it off their list and post it on instagram without engaging with it in any sense.

I was recently at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam - big art museum with Rembrandts, Vermeers etc. The number of people who pushed to the front at the most famous paintings, took a photo, then immediately went away without actually looking at the painting with their eyes was depressing.

I mean - if you’re not into art that’s fine, don’t bother going. But if you are going to take the trouble to be in the same room as a Rembrandt painting, at least look at it!

I went to university in a touristy city and live in London, and if I stopped to let people take photos I'd never get anything done. I expect exactly the same level of consideration (ie none) from people living in the places where I go on holiday. I'm actually happy to take a photo of a couple if I'm on holiday and they are too, simply because it's such a novelty that they're relaxed enough to let a stranger do it!

People taking endless photos in galleries and museums irks me. The collection has already been catalogued! Are you really going to scroll through the entire Uffizi on your phone any time soon?

Same here. I'll happily stay out of the way for someone to take a holiday snap.

I wouldn't put up with someone rudely telling me to move while I was looking at the view myself so they can spend ages faffing about though.

I wonder who’s going to look at all these photos and videos? Although, given the absolute rubbish my seven-year-old wants to watch on YouTube, it seems that there’s an audience for everything. People playing computer games, people “reacting” as they watch other people’s videos… I feel as though my brain is leaking out through my ears.

I went to a sold out exhibition few months ago and noticed exactly the same thing. So many people just taking photos of the art and then moving quickly on. Will they ever even look at those photos again.

I got really upset when we went to the 9/11 site and people were posing for photos around the pools. It was so disrespectful and I'm still shocked to this day that anyone would want a selfie where such horror happened. I don't get a lot of the human race these days to be honest.

This is the correct response, imho. Made me laugh a bit.

😂 I think I love you, Bashful. You have really given me a laugh. X

I'd say what I teach my preschoolers "Just because you want something, doesn't mean you get to take it from someone else. You can have my spot when I'm finished with it, you can choose to wait her or find another spot and come back."

Maybe a relative died there.

I do think there’s some etiquette when it comes to hotspots/sightseeing etc.
I think it’s acceptable to want a quick pic of something famous/beautiful that you’ve travelled to see (scenery / building / painting - etc etc). However there are people who take the proverbial - numerous poses and having a full blown photoshoot - it’s selfish and embarrassing.

occasionally when I’ve literally been in the middle of taking a pic and someone has come and stood right in the frame and I’ve asked them to just hang on a second or shuffle along while I finish. I know I never take longer than a few seconds so I don’t think this is unreasonable. If I see a lot of people waiting or wanting to take pics I’m always super quick.
I’ve also noticed some people who are set on trying to prove a point about this and stand in the way for an unnecessary length of time just to spite tourists or whatever - I do also think this is pretty selfish.

A while ago there was a thing where Instagram people would bring pop up tents to pretty streets in west London (maybe Notting Hill?) so they could get changed and do lots of photoshoots. From memory the residents got extremely cross and militant about it. Mainly because the people cluttering up the pavement were a blooming nuisance.

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13103483/amp/notting-hill-influencers-instagram-famous-street-pose-doorstep.html

Also, here’s someone making a nuisance of herself on the tube - think it was Oxford Circus on the Victoria line.

www.timesnownews.com/viral/entitled-tiktok-influencer-blasted-over-photoshoot-at-busy-tube-station-article-103771909/amp

Had the same in Barcelona. They were so rude while we took a few pics of the beautiful view. Then proceeded to faff for ages then got stroppy with anyone who came near. Everyone just jumped in and refused to move until they left. They just had no regards for everyone else of the tour.

Last time i was in Prague there was a group of people taking shots for their socials outside the Fred and Ginger building.

They were doing huge star jumps and running round etc. Anyone that knows Prague knows that where the building is, is next to a main junction. People were having to step out into the busy road to avoid their selfish lycra clad selves.

I don't know why a previous poster is pretending that it isn't absolutely clear that these people are doing this for their social, no one else is spending ages jumping around in leggings and a bra top in 0 degree temperatures.

Last time I was in tenerife I hiked to a chiringuito I've been going to for years. It's next to a popular scuba spot. Which has ladder entrance into the sea. It's become an insta spot. There was a group of people using it for their own private photo shoot. No one else could use it.

We watched scuba divers have to come out of the sea across a rocky foreshore on their bellies with the waves crashing over them and then negotiate a boulder strength steep beach area as they couldn't use the proper access.

The Instagrammers were absolutely unbothered about the danger they put others in.