‘You can’t record in here': Entitled woman storms out of gym after several people tried to stop her from recording her and other's workout

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Jan 17, 2024 1:00 PM EST

It's time to admit we are all done with social media influencers.

We get it, you have a knack for filming aesthetically pleasing videos of your life, and that gained you enough followers to get sponsorships that pay your rent. But are you really 'influencing' anyone anymore? Are we not over those unrealistic 'day in the life' videos of people who don't even have a job like most of the world?

I think the people from this Reddit petty revenge story will definitely agree with me. OP was at the gym when she spotted a woman filming herself lifting weights, and in doing so she was also recording a lot of other people who were simply trying to work out. After a man walked in front of the camera a couple of times, effectively 'ruining' the woman's recording, she got upset and started telling him off - "Could you not? You can see I'm recording." That resulted in several more people purposely walking in front of her camera, including OP, and ended with the woman storming out of the gym.

Scroll down for the full story and the supporting comments. When you scroll back up, click here for a story of a woman who had to deal with her pregnant sister demanding to change her adopted daughter's name.

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    "You can't record in here"
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    I (and a group) purposefully front of someone's camera who was walked in recording in the gym.
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    I'll start this off by saying this was a group effort. Now I was at my local gym and it was pretty busy. I had managed to find an empty bench where the dumbbell racks were. Another woman had also set up shop on a bench but rather
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    than using the bench for its intended purposes, she was using it to hold her things. Instead, she had her camera set up right in front of the rack, like it was propped up against the rack while she lifted weights about four feet in front
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    of the dumbbells. It was really annoying and I was upset because I was in her shot and didn't want to be recorded. I was about to go to the front desk and tell an employee when I see a
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    man walk in front of her camera to put his weights down. The woman got a disgruntled look on her face, stopped lifting, walked over to the camera and I guess she stopped recording and restarted it. She started
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    lifting again when the same man walked in front of the camera and that's when I noticed he purposefully went out of his way to walk in front of her camera.
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    She once again stopped lifting to stop the camera looking even more frustrated. She turned to the man and said "Could you not? You can see I'm recording."
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    To which he responded "Could you not? You can see people are trying to actually work out. After that, she went back to what she was doing (recording) but more people started going out of their way to walk between her and her camera.
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    I joined in too, adding an overly polite "Excuse me" along with a smile when I did so. Finally, she gave up, looking as if she wanted to throw a temper-tantrum, and stormed out of the gym.
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    NavyShooter_NS · 7 hr. ago Well done! If she wants a private gym session to film, she can pay private gym prices. As an 'influencer' of some sort, she probably makes enough money to pay that...right?
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    Grouchy-Ad4338 · 6 hr. ago Indeed - that was a good revenge by all the other gym goers who acted together even if they didn't sit down and plan the revenge.
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    Having said that I wonder if someone asked her that if they could use the bench that seemed to have been serving as a table all along...
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    Willing-Hand-9063 · 2 hr. ago She could have gone about it a better way, but maybe she wanted to record her form? Though usually the dumbbells are in front of a mirror, but still, I used to record my powerlifting
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    competition lifts to check and correct my form because I trained alone, I never shared those videos to social media, they weren't for anyone else, and I wasn't trying to be some obnoxious influencer, though sadly that seems to be the case here.
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    TanteTara 2 hr. ago If you just want to check your form, somebody blocking the view for a few seconds doesn't matter.
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    mypreciousssssssss . 7 hr. ago I've been on the fence about joining a gym after losing 85 pounds, and this post certainly encourages me to do it. Well played!
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    SnooWords4839. 6 hr. ago You and other members need to complain to the front desk. It isn't her private gym; she shouldn't be recording.
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    Sea_Photograph_3998 · 7 hr. ago Heroes. You are all heroes... I mean... like z list heroes not like those A list heroes that jumped into Normandy on June 6 '44 But still... heroes.
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    Bigstachedad 6 hr. ago Another case of so-called entitled "influencers" inconveniencing others to get their content. If she wanted to get an uninterrupted recording she could do it at home. This has become so prevalent in public spaces it's an epidemic.
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    P-S srt2366 - 7 hr. ago I'm surprised they even allow cameras. Security cams, yeah. But who wants their sweaty all over the webnet?
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    spaceylaceygirl 6 hr. ago Each gym should have a signal so everyone disrupts someone trying to film! Conga line!
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    skidoo1033 5 hr. ago · Filming isnt necessarily bad. It can be used to improve form. But you should have the courtesy to not record other people as much as possible.
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    gardengirl993 hr. ago Recording or taking photos is prohibited in the workout section of my gym. I like that.
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    Oileladanna 5 hr. ago Hahahaha high fives to all my fellow petty internet friends!
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    carpetnoodlecat · 4 hr. ago I'm so glad I built a home gym in 2020 and cancelled my gym membership
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    Skylon77 4 hr. ago "This is a gym. Not a film studio."
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