How are they encouraging this? Is there a sniper or something?

Influencer ban enforced by sniper

Snipers: great at *dis*couragement, not so much *en*couragement

Depends on your view of encouragement, "click click, ARE YOU ENCOURAGED TO RUN NOW?" 😅

Sniper's a good job mate.

I can guarantee you won’t go hungry

Because at the end of the day, as long as there's two people left on this planet,

Someone is gunna want someone dead.

Dad… Dad I’m a- I’m not a crazed gunman dad, I’m a professional!

What the difference is one's a job n' the other's mental sickness!

Joke's on them, this just encourages sniper influencers.

If it was the 80s there might have been a sniper

Redditors such as OP are stationed there.

if you get to the end of the tunnel the paras grab you

Come out ye black and tans, come take my camera if ye can...

Unflattering lighting

I too would encourage influencers to get sniped

I'd pay to see that. It should be a thing. We all know those morons can't read so there'd be a show every day. 

Meh. The less influencers in the world, the better it becomes...

They'll do your knees in if you violate.

I second this.

We can only hope.

Sniper equipped with ranged, focused energy weapon aka EMP Rifle.

That would be amazing

It looks like someone put it over the actual sign, which tells you that the subway goes to Queen's Square.

Looks like something FokaWolf would do: https://www.fokawolf.com/

Yeees, more of this please

Yess, i want to go out and look around and not end up some fat blob in the back of every skinny bitches' instagram photos. or worse not even be able to get to see the thing cause someone's taking a million selfies trying to get that angle that hides their chin and won't move outta the way 🙄

How do you enforce it exactly?

As soon as you see someone posing in a photo that suggests "oh I didn't even know there was a camera while I was swooning in front of this object/view/whatever". Two to the chest and one to the head. Bosh.

Good ol' [Mozambique drill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambique_Drill). That'll do it.

Oh neat. Fun history read on what I was taught in the army. They make it sound like it's an American exclusive and not something picked up elsewhere.

Well most places recognise that if you're shooting point blank you've done something stupid, and have a large emphasis on martial arts training for stuff like that.

Fun fact, "point blank" doesn't mean what most people think it means. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-blank\_range](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-blank_range)

Good to know, also I haven't heard it used that way at all.

Influences tend to make their presence pretty damn obvious, talking too loud and saying “YOU GUYS” a lot. Would be pretty easy to spot them and ask em to leave

YOU GUYS, YOU GOTTA CHECK OUT (insert object here) NEXT TIME YOU ARE IN (insert location here), IT IS SOOOO (insert adjective here)!

I suggest enforcing it with a water cannon.

I’ll take the first watch.

Reddit thinks people should be punished by the law for “cringe”.

Much, much, much more.

With an asterisk saying "enforced by the public or police"

The public would if they could,(where allowed to) hehe

Enforced by local T-Rex

The funny thing is, 'Influencers' would swarm to take 'naughty' photos in the 'influencer free' zone. Heck, they could even pretend they were trying to spread some important message about freedom or whatever, while mindlessly they flock to the honey pot. There probably is an influencer free zone nearby. Its a few blocks away, not well marked, and doesn't have any interesting signage. This sign is there to distract the influencers before they find it.

Everyone screaming finally completely forgetting the Streisand effect Hel are influences really that common? I live in Tampa and go to Disney a lot I've seen like one total walking around disney recording on selfie mode talking about disney not messing with anyone not being a douche. I feel like this will either cause the more assholish influences to swarm the place. Or cause bystanders to be dicks to every person taking a selfish. All in all this seems like a way to make people act more horribly not less.

Yes it really depends how seriously people take it I imagine in places that get huge numbers of tourists per day you'd have these rules enforced by a security presence.

"So today on my feed I'm going to this, so called "influencer free zone" to see what all this hype is about... I've packed my yeti water flask with blueberries and grapes and brought a lil snack and I am ready to go..."

\*gunshot*

It passed “toxic” a while back.

Influencers: Fantastic! The council allocated a free zone for us.

Influencers will flock to this sign to make videos, just to show that ain't nobody the boss of them!

I wish there ware more of these kinda zones around the place. Whole cities even!

It's not like it would matter. It's not something that the police would ever enforce, and a sign has never stopped stupid people from doing stupid things.

I used to busk in that subway. Great acoustics. Terrible smell.

Like smoking free zones we must slowly push to influencers out to select managed areas where they have limited ability to harm the public.

Whats up guys today we'll be going into the influencer free zone at 3am

We need more of these around the world.

Normalise this pleaseee

Glad I’m a digital creator and not an influencer!

Am I the only person that thinks the fact that “Influencer” is a thing is a flaw of humanity?

Yes. You're literally the only person on the planet who has this radical viewpoint.

Sorry but I don’t even see a tunnel.

The tunnel is right below where the bottom edge of frame is, OP just didn't include it for some reason

My point exactly lol, thanks

I find it a bit odd that they picked a traditionally looking photography camera for the symbol and not a smartphone, the device which probably is more commonly associated with influencers.

Because a black rectangle is a terrible icon

What about videographers, documentarians, and tourists taking pictures/video?

Yeah like are street photography enthusiasts really an issue?

Can we make the entire planet an "influencer free zone" please?

I say we take off, and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

Fallout but for influencers

It was an Aliens reference. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCbfMkh940Q](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCbfMkh940Q)

What we really need to do is trick them all into vaults so we can live happily without them.

“Hey guys welcome back to episode 2 of vault life today we are getting sealed in the vault and the door is getting welded shut!”

Influencers are like cockroaches. They would still survive.

Street preachers beware 🫤

We need more sensitive areas that are influencer free, i vote we make this worldwide!

I love this idea but I feel like the choice of icon is unusual. Should have been a person with a selfie-stick or, a person holding their phone. This just makes it look like you can't do photography at all.

The fact this sign even has to exist saddens me

The fact that you think this is a real sign saddens me

This is pointless. Influencers can't read the sign or interpret the picture.

Everywhere should be an influencer free zone.

But can I still take selfies if I have no influence?

I wish that was fucking everywhere

We need this everywhere. If I owned a business I'd definitely have these posted on my property.

Last time i walked through that tunnel I had to pass two junkies who were sitting on the ground, picking up their needles they had dropped, and I had to step over.

Now to extend this to the whole city...

No you misunderstand, that’s actually the sign for the whole planet. They just ran out of stuff to make another one. 

I like that...I wonder what the fine is

Is this a bit of street art? I mean you can't really enforce this. The maximum you can say is not pictures allowed.

"Street art" is a bit of a grandiose term for someone printing this out and sticking it over the subway sign

I think this sign is a joke, but some places are taking real action along these lines. You usually can't ban public photography directly, so some towns in Vermont have started experimenting with banning out-of-town vehicles. You want that perfect sunset-in-autumn photograph? Better be ready to walk ten miles for it.

“Omg, guys, look at this sign I just saw. I feel so oppressed right now. 1000 likes and I’ll tear the sign down and take a shit on it. Highest contributor receives the shit stained sign.”

I would imagine most of Belfast is influencer free.

Fatal mistake Belfast. You forgot they’re like munted gremlins. You mention em, they’ll show up. The need to be noticed is to strong with these ones!

I want to move there

They spelt Influenza wrong

🤣🤣🤣 Honestly, tho, good for them. Nothing worse than going about your day and being fucked around with by an “”influencer.””

Cool. Few people take photos with actual cameras anyway.


A sign like this will make influencers Flock to like seagulls it chips.

More of this! Everywhere!

Good. Now let's expand this to the entire rest of the world.

Not if I get to it with a megaphone 🥰

There are some more photos up here: [https://www.instagram.com/leoboydprints/p/C6VcrxMo685/](https://www.instagram.com/leoboydprints/p/C6VcrxMo685/)

That’s good initiative

Can we make being an influencer cringy yet? Stop making stupid people famous

Heaven? I wish everywhere was an influencer free zone. If by influencers we are purely speaking about the loud obnoxious people that do nothing in their life except for recording everything they do thinking they are the main character of the world and somehow make Absolute bank out of it.

but how did you take the photo?

As the whole earth should be.

Influenzers will be flu shot.

What's the punishment?

wow

Would that the entire world follow suit. It’s strange how the term “influencer” was coined as a derogatory term - meaning a compensated manipulator posing as a regular person - and now it’s viewed by some as a legitimate occupation.

Influencers are just the new age infomercial salesman or commercial actor. We’ve had people on TV for years trying to influence us to buy garbage. Whether it was Billy Mayes selling oxy-clean or George Clooney doing coffee commercials.

Having had my lunch ruined by a couple of "influencers" who would not shut up talking and filming, and kept demanding stuff from the staff (who just rolled their eyes when they weren't looking) I'm 100% behind this. Also it was a fucking Outback, how much influencer content is that gonna generate?!

Calling them influencers is part of the issue- let’s agree to call them assholes

Could they expand that zone to all of the northern hemisphere

We should have the oppsite instead. We have influencer zones and the rest of the world is influencer free zones.

Any idea where this is? I'm going to Belfast in a month and I'd love to see it in person.

That's the Albert Clock in the background, close to the city centre.

Thanks.

This is sectarianism gone mad!

can we have influencer free cities... or better countries?

We need this everywhere

This a trend I can get on board with

I dont think influencers will know what that image shows...

Hi

I hope this is real.

Influencer is just another name for brainwasher

don't you dare limit the videos that I watch. Is that one second scene of a person stepping off of a subway too much of a public nuisance? Now with content I don't watch and seems cringe, like street interviews. I don't see why to stop them even if I don't want them to talk to me. They ask, you say no, move on. The only influencer I don't want to see in public are the public nuisance pranksters, but I dread to call them influencers and they probably just call themselves youtubers or kick streamers.

Can we have this everywhere?

Does that mean I can't set a tripod up and twerk?

So influencers are banned? Maybe they mean “no photos”?

>Maybe they mean “no photos”? Assuming the law is the same as it is in the rest of the UK (it may well not be), there are no laws against taking photos in public. Banning it next to a single clock tower would be a difficult thing to do.

If banning photos is problematic from legal perspective, I would assume banning a whole group of people (influencers) would be even more problematic. So the whole sign is just a joke then, right?

Yeah it's not a real sign, this isn't mildly interesting. 

Enforced by radar

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Are you having a stroke?