I don't mind that camera phones are inspiring average people to take up photography. What I DO mind are so called "influencers" bartering imaginary currency for real world items. Lemme give you an example. I'm a REAL photographer. Each photo I shoot is roughly $10,000 in gear. Influencers contact me all the time wanting free work. In return they promise to "tag" me so my work can be viewed by their followers. First all, likes don't pay my bills. Secondly, why would I want my work to be seen by more of your broke a*s friends who in turn will contact me for their own free shoot? Finally, click on any photo of any influencer with a million or more followers. You'll never see more than exactly 50,000 likes. Which means not only are the majority of followers fake bots...but so are the likes. You're essentially a turd paying your own money to fuel your ego and trying to p**n your fake celebrity for free vacations, actual photoshoots, and other items. F*ck off. Sincerely, a real photographer. DSC7572Ret...3067d3.jpg

I started following this account for a while as I found it funny, then cringed as I realised that I just don't even want to see these ridiculous people and their c**p anymore, pure narcissism. Now I've unfollowed it as it was just winding me up

Too ugly to be an influencer and too old to care.

It's funny that taking pictures of people taking pictures has become a thing, and it's even funnier that we're looking at and talking about people taking pictures of people taking pictures... It's toooo meta, I just broke my brain...

When we were in Paris last fall, we ran into one of these Bippy Sues a couple of times. Late one afternoon in the Marais, we were headed for a restaurant and there she was, in a tiny miniskirt (it was about 0 F and drizzling nastily, that's Paris in fall) and a halter top, posing against a wall. ...///... Another American walked past and said, "The hookers start early in this part of the world." ....///... The influencer, enraged, yelled down the street at the person who said it, proving that she was as stupid as she looked.

Influencers can't exist without followers. When a moron manages to gain followers it means that they are even greater idiots than the moron.

I don't care if people are taking photos, but when they put themselves and others in danger and need help, they should be required to pay back the cost of emergency services that are required.

They need a new name cause this isn't influencing anything

We went to Key West in January and couldn't take a photo of the southernmost point because it was overrun by influencers. They were even queuing for photos.

What I see is a lot of attention seeking behavior by a bunch of vain narcissistic people. I think the whole influencer BS is getting out of control. There are times I really really hate the impact technology has had on people. SMH.

Influencers are the scourge of society.

Ridiculous and think what kinda job 'influencer' will be in a few years time ?!

And this is why I don't Instagram...

Original 63, thanks for cutting this short !!!

I don't get it are they influencing how to be idiots?

We need a biblical wave proportions to wash off all this bull s**t!

So just gonna put my twopennth worth in on the points raised and discussed by Ana J and co...i can see both sides, sometimes things loosening up a little is a good thing...dads being more involved with their children and it not being a big weird thing like it was say 50 years ago for eg., but that in other areas like online porn being easily available and viewed by children not so much. Whenever I'm on this site i see lots of different P.O.V. and i always remind myself of the quote (sumerised cos i can't remember it exactly) "i may not always agree with what you say but i will always defend your right to say it" -there are very obvious exceptions to this which should quite rightly be shutdown straight away- but on the whole if i don't like what someone is saying i tend to just say nothing to them at all. Different opinions on subjects is a good thing and unless that opinion is something way over the line no one should be calling ppl horrible names because of their opinion. I'm done x p

This article irritated me. Everyone is commenting so snobbily about these people who just want a nice picture of themselves. In most of the photos, they aren't disturbing others or trespassing anywhere. In other Bored Panda posts, the exact same people are commenting "wow, amazing work!" on the final products of very similar instances/shoots, and yet when they come here they disparage these people who are taking those photos. What's the difference? Is it okay for a professional photographer to photograph clients in the street and in popular photo-op locations, but it's annoying and cringey when amateur photographers do it? All of you are taking too much pride in your own supposed non-cringey-ness and failing to realize that the vast majority of the people featured in this post aren't actually doing anything wrong. At all.

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yall...this is f*****g stupid. JUST LET PEOPLE BE? what are you judging them for? why can't people just do what they enjoy anymore?