I saw a girl standing in front of the hall of presidents just standing there making various (stupid & contrived) expressions while her friend (the beta of the duo who was probably dying a little inside) took easily 200 pictures of said friend. I was wondering if she was planning on making some sort of self absorbed flip book of all of these or something for her 50 Instagram followers. They weren’t blocking anyone, as no sane human would have let that continue that long, but I did say to my wife “I know I shouldn’t judge people so quickly, but I’m pretty sure I would hate everything about this person”
I mentioned in another thread I had three instances where people (who all looked like they’ve considered taking a carnival “Kid Rock Cruise”) walked right thru our Disney photographer taken pics. Just have a smidge of awareness to your surroundings?
Now on personal pics, I say 10 ft distance max. I’ve seen people at Universal span the width of the bridge leading to Hogwarts, which is a heavy trafficked bridge, expecting people to hold while they get everyone in a pose and take pics? No. You get 2 seconds if everyone is feeling generous. If people try to span the width of a walkway, my feeling is I am free to continue moving as normal, and it’s up to them to get a clearing. Otherwise hold off for a ‘photo spot’ which are usually out of the way of foot traffic and there for a reason, or you get 10 feet/5 seconds. Sorry, you may not get Baylee-Caylee’s entire outfit AND the entire Thunder Mountain in the shot, but your friends on Facebook will get the idea.
It all goes back to people valuing their time more than that of others, which in many forms (line jumpers, person in line at Subway acting like they are directing a heart surgery, etc) irks me to no end and shows a general lack of respect for others. If I walk thru, or photobomb your pictures then, I’m probably a little happy inside.
Now if we’re talking a quiet area, or something like the Cars at AoA where there’s plenty of room to get around, fine. But a crowded, narrow walkway or somewhere generally stupid “here I am by the koala bear Kate changing station!” Then kick rocks.
I don’t feel either this is just a millennial thing, I’m around the gen X-Y age group and moms my age are the absolute worst w iPhone attachment, and will photo document nearly every second of Braxxden’s trip on her phone. Do you really need 15 pics of him on the boat from Boardwalk to HS? Also I’ve seen older folks do this too, while less frequent they can be even worse due to not being quite as technologically savvy (not all, my dad forgets more about cameras/IPads than I will ever know)
To the “it’s fine”crowd, if you are ok with it, good on you for your patience, however it’s also fair not to devalue others’ legit annoyance with it either. It’s rude and inconsiderate to act like the only people there at a crowded park. I’m not saying these people deserve to be chewed out, just to not have the whole world stop for their group photo of their family blockading the 7DMT fastpass entrance. Granted if it was still the days of film I’d be more accommodating, but the flip side is that only Melinda Gates could have afforded to use that much film taking pictures of Ryyyyder refilling his Dr. Pepper at the cafeteria.
