I agree, too many times people feel entitled due to their age. You don't owe anyone anything. Congrats on the souvenir and the story you will be able to tell your friends and family.

Any job that serves a societal need is respectable.

In Finland, speeding tickets are income based. Just as an example.

So agree! I love all my stuffies!

Greed and narcissism... it's sad, but it's human nature. The majority of the people out there are fake as heck, and will do things like posting videos of themselves crying on the internet as PR moves, to help promote and enhance their brands, to help them gain those clicks, likes, follows, and subscribes. Even more sad is that there ARE the odd few out there who honestly have no one and no where else to turn to, and are using the internet to reach out. But those odd genuine few are usually buried and overshadowed by all the loud popular influencers out there, with their TikToks and viral videos and their memes.

Harassment is the right word. What happened to Diana and other famous people with the paparazzi actually haunting them, spying and giving no Fu*ks. But here's a thought: Who the hell buys those rag mag's is an accomplice bc if they stop buying that filth then the paparazzi will (nearly) go away or at least be way less.

It should be classed as stalking for financial gain and invasion of privacy. It should be a crime.

paparazzi = stalking for profit.

I never understood why anyone would want to be famous. This is definitely harassment and a nightmare. Please don’t support tabloids.

The world can go without the "saucy pics" of our minor celebrities trying to tan on the beach

Must be like living under a microscope, with someone watching your every move. All. The. Time. People deserve—-and NEED—-their privacy. Hell, even zoos (the better ones, that is) provide animals with privacy areas in their enclosures, where they can go to escape all the goddamned eyes on them. It’s no wonder people who are constantly followed by paparazzi often have private breakdowns and/or public meltdowns. Think of it as being like that micromanaging boss, except they’re always there; not just at work, but also at home, at the grocery store, at the restaurant you’re eating at, at the Starbucks when you’re just getting a coffee. And don’t forget them trying to use long-range zoom lenses to see through the windows of your house from beyond 50 yards—-or whatever distance is spelled out in the restraining order you took out against them. Just every-f*****g-where. You’d break down too.

The issue is jot necessarily the paparazzi. If people did not make such a big deal out of celebrities there would be no money in it. It would stop. So what. They are good at this one thing (acting, a sport, etc). Dies not mean I give a rats ass about the rest of their life. It would be difficult to care less about their opinion on anything outside of their talent/specialty. The morale here is that you are responsible for this. Not the photographer who is trying to make a living. Stop putting these, often less than desirable or ideal people on a pedestal. They are people with lives amd problems. Your obsessing is making it worse.

You are so right. Totally agree. Sadly it seems to be a market for this type of ’journalism’. Personally I couldn’t care about a celebrities private life. I admire and or like them for their skills.

YES. It is stalking and causes trauma just because they are on camera in movies doesn't automatically mean anyone at anytime should be aloud to photograph or follow them at any time. It's disgusting that people consume all of that content for it to be lucrative for the paparazzi in the first place. I personally have never been interested in watching people going in n out of restaurants or restrooms or grocery shopping in frumpy clothes, u no the pics they are stalking these actors for...smh

I think Diana would still be alive if it weren't for those bast.ards chasing her car. We need more people like her in the world. Great role model she was.

I know people don't generally like the person she became, but I don't think anyone got it worse than Lindsay Lohan at the height of her popularity. Add to that her mother being a tragedy living vicariously through her daughter and it's no wonder she had issues with self-discipline and drugs/alcohol. I remember her not being able to move when she and her little sister were at a beach once because paparazzi were hounding them. And at one point one she's holding her sister telling them to get away because she was upset and she's trying to navigate through the crowd, and one of the paps unties the back of her bathing suit top to try and get a pic of it falling. It was really nuts. Miley Cyrus got it bad, too. Miley was like a whole other level of crazy back when she was Hannah Montana. I kinda surprised she didn't end up with massive issues. Althogh I'm sure there's some lasting affect, but growing up with a famous dad maybe helped.

I agree. Paparazzi is just a fancy name for celebrity stalker and we have seen how that usually goes

Don't buy the celebrity magazines and there won't be a demand for the photos. Problem solved!

How about we talk about Princess Dianna? Paparazzi cause death.

And that is why I stopped reading the tabloids.

There should be a 300 ft rule. if a pick was taken within that raciud they go to jail for harrassment. 3 strikes and its a felony.

It is harassment. The patriarchy always finds the loophole I guess

Yes again, but it's a whole social disease. They'd starve if no one bought the magazines.

Hell yeah, sad people hide behind cameras and stalk others for money. Heartless

I loathe the idea of paparazzi harassing celebrities, but some of you make a good point. They exist because of people's demand for details on the lives of the rich and famous. If people weren't so damn nosy, paparazzi wouldn't exist

Paparazzi killed Amy Winehouse and Diana, Princess of Wales ... probably many more.

Stop buying and looking at the pic's they take and the problem takes care of itself.

What the OP is missing is the US constitution. The first amendment gives everybody extremely broad freedom to document thing that can be seen from places you're allowed to be. We've also got a very broad right to travel freely, so following somebody and capturing the light that bounces off of them is very well-established as a lawful activity.

I can understand it was usted to be a thing, when pictures of celebs were only to see in tabloid journals. But now, why? Every celeb has instagram, they are posting the whole time pictures of themselves. So why you need more photos?

Freedom of the press. Either paparazzi can follow public figures hoping for a good shot or no photos can be taken of anyone without permission and we miss huge historical moments that have changed societal attitudes and thus laws.

There wouldn't be so many paparazzi if people weren't so interested in seeing their pictures that they can make a living at it.

As long as people, yes you people, are willing to pay for magazines with such photos and stories in it they will be there. Stop being so keen on the misfortune of other people who are fabulous and noone will pay for those stories.

Paparazzi only exist because we buy the media with their photos. If we stop the publishers will stop.

It's probably a side effect of a lot of things, one being people feeling it's just a turnabout is fair play. Plenty of rich and famous get away with criminal activity all the time. Eventually all of them get lumped together and people decide they all deserve to suffer and if their crimes can be ignored because of who they are then why shouldn't there be a profession that is just criminals being ignored because they target these people. Two wrongs may not make a right but it still makes a lot of people feel better. Unfortunate that we'd rather get vengeance then fix the societal issues causing people to want vengeance though.

If you buy the newspapers and magazines, YOU are the harasser. People mag, Daily Mail, and all the rest cater to society's prurient interests. Gossip makes big money and can destroy lives. Newspapers cater to obsessions and mean-spirited people. It's not whether someone is planning a movie or had a baby, it's looking for dirt and putting someone down--whether it's their body, their clothes, their life decisions. Don't read or watch crap, and the harassment will subside.

What I would love is to have serious enforcement of restrictions when people are on private property. That includes many businesses. Any of those prying, long lens pics (think Kate Middleton topless pics) should be punishable under international law and enforced. When photographing people out in public spaces, the law should 1) require them to keep a distance of at least 10 meters at all times and 2) prevent them from verbally harassing, asking repeated personal questions etc.

I disagree singling out paparazzi as evil. If you're a public figure why is taking pictures from you by a stranger evil but you posting 10 pictures a day on Insta is normal? Britney, Lindsay, etc these people are/got where they're not because of paparazzi following them but because their families and people surrounding them were s**t and were either groomed or exploited once they got rich. Also jealousy, gossiping, schadenfreude are all part of human nature. If there's demand, there'll be people making business in delivering

Tabloids are such a waste of time.

You're just a nuisance who gets paid.

Tell me you never look at pictures of celebrities in the wild, and you have a point. Otherwise, you are causing the problem.

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But that is also how the artists survive though...

Speaking as someone who was out on their ass at 18... basic parenting, including food, clothing, and sleeping indoors.... isn't nothing. Not when you consider what it's like to do without any of those.

Why censor the word murder, not like we all can't figure out what it says, strange BP.

I read a quote before, wouldn't it be safer to fire blanks at someone than fire bullets at someone with a bullet proof vest