La paura di diventare involontariamente virale sta cambiando il clubbing della Gen Z?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgmdk0k8dxzo
di insomnimax_99
La paura di diventare involontariamente virale sta cambiando il clubbing della Gen Z?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgmdk0k8dxzo
di insomnimax_99
33 commenti
A couple of London nightclubs put stickers over your cameras, and don’t allow filming in the club. It’s a good idea, and should be rolled out everywhere.
Back in my day filming strangers without their consent would mean you’re probably a weirdo, pervert, or both.
I can understand but it’s a shame they can’t let themselves be embarrassed from time to time
Freya didn’t want to become content, but she became content in the article 🤣
Not sure why people think they are THAT interesting that people want to film them. Just get on with it.
I don’t get it why people just want to film themselves having fun, but whenever I see these clips online most people are just standing around, some forcing themselves to have fun while a camera is forced in their face…is this really definition of fun at a club in this day and age?
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I think there is a wider issue about filming in general to be had.
It used to be the case that it was not only fairly obvious if someone was filming content for TV, but they’d also put up signs saying “filming in progress”.
Now we have “content creators” filming with incredibly small cameras, guerrilla style. And I personally hate it.
To give some real world context, I was on holiday recently, in a hot tub, and a content creator with half a million subscribers, came over and filmed me in the hot tub, whilst narrating the resort facilities. I had no choice in being in this video or not, they couldn’t care about me or my feelings and whether or not I was comfortable, I was collateral damage. And it was over before it even started.
And this is the world we live in.
I would guess so. I had a thing for dancing to trance music in quite an energetic and in hindsight likely inelegant way… but I adored it for nearly a decade ‘93-03 in 1000s of clubs, old city cathedrals, sticky student clubs, massive hangars, boggy fields. Not once did anyone say anything negative to me and I made so many good friends who also danced with the same enthusiasm.
Nowadays it’d be “look at this twat, does he think he’s fucking Temu John Travolta?”… “lets stream him on tiktok and throw Hooch Energy+ and vape packaging at him”… “lets stab him with a zombie knife for being a freak”… nah, I’ll pass.
As someone who photographs nightclubs, the amount of Gen Z who literally scream out loud, run away & drop their drink or even drive into the floor with a faceplant just to not be near a camera honestly makes me feel bad for them. And I’m not even talking awful mugshots, I’m politely asking people if they would like a photo, and then following up by letting them check
Are people honestly so scared of being caught in a photo nowadays? Like, who cares? Do you need ten layers of makeup, perfect lighting and several rehearsals before your face ends up on social media?
That seems toxic to me – the fact that people have become so anxious and obsessed about their personal image on social media.
It puts me off wanting to try and open mic for the first time. I really don’t want that to be filmed
I’m so glad I did all my clubbing and drug taking before the advent of camera phones. No one needs to see me gurning and chatting shit while I struggled to roll a cigarette.
This is a weird idea that is only pushed by people who are too old to go to clubs anymore lol
Never once have I been in a bar or club and someone has banged out their phone and started filming me
i’m surprised anyone is even anxious about this. if someone films me dancing kind of shit and posts it online … so? what will it get like 70 views? some guy being kind of bad at dancing isn’t interesting.
Youtube is full of videos from Raves in the 90s of us gurning with eyes like saucers and dancing like a maniac. Seen myself and loads of people I know on them. There was always people with disposable cameras taking photos.
As well as journalists for music magazines and the undercover ones from the tabloids. Being in the News of the World was always a possibility but the difference was we just didn’t give a fuck.
I don’t know but I personally stoped going after being grouped on the dance floor. Hadn’t even talked to the guy as he walked past and did what he did. Two others I know had the same thing happen to them but one of them still goes for some reason 🤦♀️
Sounds like main character syndrome; you’re really not that important or interesting, get over it and just enjoy yourself! Seriously, life’s too short
I’m not on any social media other than Reddit, so I probably wouldn even notice if my dancing went viral unless it became a major meme, which is too unlikely for me to care about. However, it still puts me off being photographed, especially with flash. A few months ago, I went clubbing for the first time in about a year and I left early exactly because of this. And it was a very alternative club, run by some sort of collective, very queer (I’m not but don’t mind) As I moved here in 2024, I can’t say whether it’s a recent thing, but in my memory, back home in Germany, such behaviour would be unacceptable in this environment. I would expect some photos in large, mainstream clubs but as someone else mentioned, it is quite common to have stickers put on your phone in the type of clubs where people consume other substances than alcohol. But maybe I’m a bit strange in that I also prefer dark clubs because I just want to vibe to the music without feeling observed by others. Others go clubbing to be seen, so that’s just a different expectation.
Edit: I should add that I’m a millennial, not gen Z.
At uni, we would go to the club round the corner a couple of times per month. I (a tall, uncoordinated but enthusiastic bloke) would really enjoy taking my turn dancing on the podium.
There is ZERO chance I’d have done if I were growing up these days, with mobile phones in every pocket.
People genuinely need to take themselves less seriously. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a viral video of someone dancing in a funny way, even if someone puts it on their story just laugh it off it’s not like it gets uploaded directly to your LinkedIn.
I honestly don’t know where this thought comes from aside from Reddit. Never bothered me or my friends or anyone I know who goes clubbing or bars on a weekend
In my experience a lot of Gen Z just have generalised anxiety. It’s not something that you can really reason someone out of. They have to just do things and realise that the world keeps spinning if they get it wrong or if something happens.
e.g. you could go dancing in a club, the video could get uploaded, a million people could watch it, and… that’s it, your life will go on. Except this is vanishingly unlikely to happen anyway.
I think another large aspect is the insane cost of alcohol now – relative to earnings.
Clubbing used to be a relatively fun and cost effective way of blowing off steam with friends, meeting the opposite sex etc.
Now half your friends likely can’t afford to go out (even if you can), there are much more affordable and assessable ways to be with friends, meet the opposite sex etc. with the advent of technology and apps.
And then to top it all off if you do go clubbing you’ll likely see a photo of yourself the next day absolutely looking off your tits in a club….
No, most the clubs are just shit. Been into my local one and it’s good for gigs. For clubbing…no.
This is a massive thing I had forgotten to consider, the worst I would have is a Facebook post from a friend the day after of me drunk looking posing for a photo on a shitty Sony digital camera, now its 4k videos etc of you acting like an idiot.
I remember dancing out of my tree on speed at really straight nightclubs in the nineties, I thank the lord there were no phone cameras then I would have died from embarrassment years ago.
Watching my eldest daughter grow up, she’s 17 now and her mates are all 18, she is so worried that anything she does may be filmed or put online, at one point she was so worried about looking cringe (although she said that word is dead and I’m such millennial) she wouldn’t walk around the town alone to do clothes shopping, she won’t eat a packed lunch in case someone takes a photo or mocks her for it, she won’t do anything unless her bf is with her and even then, she makes him do the stuff because she’s anxious about it all.
I can’t imagine her enjoying a club or a night out at this rate.
So glad I grew up without that stress
The panopticon is here and all of us are both the guards and prisoners
I feel so bad for my teenage children. As a teen and young adult, me and my friends would get up to all kinds of stuff, no fear of being recorded. Now it’s like everyone is on high alert – can’t dance like a fool as people might see. It used to be you could dance and act like a muppet knowing it was very unlikely you’d ever see them again. Now, you might not see them but everyone might see you!
Only way you could get back to the old way is to have no phone clubs where you get them out of your lockers at the end of the night
And there’s official photographers if people want photos
Besides that there’s always a risk
No its that clubbing actually sucks without either being drunk or on drugs and as gen z are smart enough to avoid both of those they realise that its crap. Personally i am glad to see clubs close, hubs of drugs, addiction and drink spiking, good riddance
There’s this knockout audit guy on YouTube that intentionally antagonises drunk people by standing there filming them.
There is a right to film in public but this shit is getting out of hand