Fake Cringy Street Photographers

Watching these guys on YouTube get in peoples faces, take a photo and then display feigned interest is the worst. The typical overly enthusiastic “I love your hat” or “nice shades” is to avoid a negative confrontation, not because the photographer is actually interested in them. It almost always looks like a show. There’s a few people I’ve seen that have genuine interest in the subject to be fair, but that’s the minority. The subjects know the photographer is full of it. The interactions are very awkward and the body language tells me the true motive of the street photographer. Which is to get a photo they like without any negative reactions. It’s okay to just want a nice photo of someone without all the antics.