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He also for sure knew what the footage would look like, and did this on purpose and then pretended to act surprise at the result in order to post a video with a slightly more compelling narrative than someone who just wants to plainly fuel their own narcissisms by posting videos of themselves.
That's what they deserve for filming themselves during vacations. At least they look like some sort of cute otter when swimming.
Pissed off by this ego era.
Ya I don't want to be the old man yelling at a cloud here but seriously try enjoying life a bit people. Take some pictures or some videos for your memories but stop with the constant need to make content
Yes. I did say I didn't want to be. What I said was accurate regardless. I'm generally fairly receptive and also participate in a lot of the stuff the younger generations do but this is just sad. And if you've ever seen someone make this kind of content, watch their face as soon as they hit the stop recording button. They're very very sad.
> try enjoying life a bit people
The irony of this being a reply to a guy who says he gets pissed off at people that affect his life in no way whatsoever
This guy is malding up and down this thread over literally nothing meanwhile telling people to enjoy life more.
The irony is palpable. I do agree that people should try to enjoy life more but I think this lil' fella misunderstood the assignment.
I'm actually quite on your side but I wouldn't say it's black and white. While my wife doesn't go as crazy with "content" she does take pics to the point I'd consider ruining the current experience but having said that, I do have to admit that she does get some nice shots and all this stuff is great for someone like me with a relatively poor memory. I rarely look at old pics though.
This is such a weird comment.
People take photos and videos when they go on holiday.
This has always been done, since the dawn of easily accessible cameras.
They're gonna have memories from their trips that they can look back on decades later.
Stop being such a grouchy old man.
Did your parents not take pictures or make videos of your trips? People have taken pictures (and more recently videos) of themselves in vacation for a long time now. Why tf would you be pissed by “people filming themselves during vacations”?
People just want to enjoy (and remember) the memories they are making. Our family trip to the Grand Canyon my mom went through 2 rolls of film just stepping out of the car.
I personally don't like filming stuff over enjoying it, but it's not unreasonable to make videos on vacation...that's a bit of a melodramatic take.
Social media has made people over the top narcissistic, but your assertion that merely filming yourself on a vacation puts one in that category is a little ridiculous.
You realize this is taken with a 360 go pro where you can change the video angle after the fact? They just made a version pointing at themselves for the memes... and to piss you off.
How are you this angry at someone else recording themselves with a silly camera shot? Is your life that miserable? There was literally no ego involved. He simply wanted to record himself swimming with a silly camera angle. Grow up and mind your own business.
To be 100% honest, if we had had smartphones with face camera, action cams, selfie sticks and all that crap, the 80s may have been as bad in that regards :(
Most use it as a catch all for any country within Europe, like we are all one big country. Its fair to say Europe if you are visiting multiple countries but I would say that is definitely not the case given how much I see it written like that
The cost in time and money to travel to anywhere in Europe from the US is large compared to the cost of adding an extra country or two while you're there, so most people do visit more than one country.
Like, you can double the cost of the trip and visit 5 countries instead of 1. I also imagine most Europeans vacationing in the US visit more than one state.
>I also imagine most Europeans vacationing in the US visit more than one state.
Unless they're visiting explicitly to do that, it's unlikely. Almost everyone I know that's been to the US on holiday will go to one area and visit it.
I'll be in LA soon, I might go to San Diego if I have the time, but the vast bulk of my trip will be spent in and around LA. There's plenty to see and do there. I don't need to travel hundreds of miles and see freeways after spending 11 hours on a flight.
Same story when I've been on the East Coast. I'll visit a place and explore that place.
We always find it wild when Americans share proposed itineraries on reddit where they "visit" 5 countries in as many days and then go home. At that point you've "been", but barely. Hell, on the UK sub, we see unrealistic itineraries all the time, and they are talking about visiting cities, let alone countries. I can only imagine it's like collecting stamps. You can go home and say you "visited" somewhere, but you didn't "see" any of it.
I've been to Europe once and spent three weeks, visiting Italy, France, and Spain, plus a few minor countries. I'll probably go once or twice more before I die.
Sure, there's always more to see, but I don't think it's better to spend a week in Paris than spending 3 days in Paris and 3 days in Rome.
It is strange how that is one thing that does seem to be such a cultural difference between places. I, and most Europeans I know, would almost certainly choose the week in Paris over three days in each.
I wonder if it partly comes down to quantity of holiday and how we’re allowed to take it, or if there’s something more ingrained.
I think it's because you can get to those places much easier, You can spend a week in Paris this year and a week in Rome next year. I could spend a week in Washington DC this year and a week in Colorado next year, but I couldn't do a week in Paris and then a week in Rome on separate trips. If I want to see both of them, I need to do it on the same trip.
It’s an attitude that I see retained despite the distance travelled though. I’ve known plenty of Europeans who will for example go on holiday to San Francisco. Just San Francisco. No desire to try and cram in Los Angeles or Sacramento (assuming any tourist has gone there by choice in the first place) into the same trip. I suppose maybe a little day excursion to Muir Woods or something.
If you want to be running around for the holiday. I would take the week in Paris please. But then again I'm from Ireland and I can go to Rome next time
Both, the united states is a country, Florida is the specific state. If i said “Im going to North America”, that would be weird
If I go on Holiday to Spain, I will say Spain, or I might name the specific city/island. Just whatever I feel like saying at the time
And America as a country is larger than most of Europe as a continent. So saying, I'm taking a holiday in California, that's not anymore specific than saying I'm vacationing in an area roughly the size of France, Spain and the UK put together.
Maybe a more accurate example is that if I said I'm visiting Belgium, that's about as specific as saying LA county.
So yeah, saying "I'm going to visit Asia" makes no sense. "I'm going to visit Europe" is a lot simpler than, "I'm going to visit some places in an area roughly the size of Texas"
Me, as most of the world, say the US. If someone asks which part, which is actually a standard follow up question when you say any country, then I specify which part.
The only exception might be if I'm visiting a single city in which case I might mention the city but, spoiler alert, I would do the same with any country in the world, so I would say I'm going to Rome, Paris, London, or Barcelona instead of Italy, France, UK, or Spain.
He likely is visiting more than one country. I am American and have never once heard in real life someone say Europe unless they were referring to multiple countries.
It’s funny. Cuz ironically Europeans say they same on vacation to America and never mention the state. Your nitpicking at that point cuz it’s still Europe.
Just like how you say Americans but you probably don't mean ALL the people that live in America. There is North America and South America both are America. You probably mean the people from U.S.A.
Yeah it's because we don't fucking care. No one goes to Europe and only goes to one country. We are not going to list all the countries we visit until we do the slide show. We have shit to do! Those gas guzzling truck aren't going to drive themselves. Guns won't kill people without us so we have to get out there and do it. No time to list countries!
I think this is only weird if you’re from that place. To Americans, if someone says they’re visiting the U.S. they’ll wonder where you mean. As a trip to New Orleans, Louisiana is very different culture, food, accents/dialect, than a trip to Los Angeles, California or Branson, Missouri.
Sure, Europe has very diverse countries with lots of different cuisines, building styles, culture, etc. But to Americans it’s easier to just say “Europe” especially if you’re visiting multiple countries.
It’s a “faux pas” to either area to simply say “visiting the U.S.” or “visiting Europe” because the people from those areas obviously understand the large difference/variations of each state/country.
As an American, it doesn’t help that most European countries are aligned under the “European Union” which to us sounds very similar to our union of states. Honestly it’s no different than saying you’re visiting Russia or China, without context you have no idea where they’re actually going because it’s such a large landmass
This just rage bait. It’s a 360 camera with a mouth mount. You just rotate the video in the editor and export a perfect video of what he saw from the first person perspective. He got great footage.
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The camera is in his mouth right…right?
yeah this went as expected
Looks so happy when they are under the water
Up on Melancholy Hill Sits the manatee...
Are you here with me? Just looking out on the day Of another dream
Looks like a caricature of Mr. Bean.
This is legit his style of videos of this is the account I'm thinking of. Don't know why it's on this sub, he did film it
At least I got a good laugh out of it when he went swimming. And again when I showed this to my spouse.
Also, unfair to blame the camera. This is what the dude looks like from that vantage point
Yep. Probably an Insta360 with the [mouth mount.](https://store.insta360.com/product/pov_mouth_mount?c=1527&from=accessory)
$49 to shove something in your mouth and film. Sounds about right.
You guys are getting paid?
rofl 🤣🤣🤣🤣
LMAO
Aayooo
Or GoPro MAX with the bite mount
Yes, this guy makes many of this kind of video
He also for sure knew what the footage would look like, and did this on purpose and then pretended to act surprise at the result in order to post a video with a slightly more compelling narrative than someone who just wants to plainly fuel their own narcissisms by posting videos of themselves.
That's what they deserve for filming themselves during vacations. At least they look like some sort of cute otter when swimming. Pissed off by this ego era.
Ya I don't want to be the old man yelling at a cloud here but seriously try enjoying life a bit people. Take some pictures or some videos for your memories but stop with the constant need to make content
You don't want to be and yet here you are screaming at the clouds and shaking your fists at them lmao
Yes. I did say I didn't want to be. What I said was accurate regardless. I'm generally fairly receptive and also participate in a lot of the stuff the younger generations do but this is just sad. And if you've ever seen someone make this kind of content, watch their face as soon as they hit the stop recording button. They're very very sad.
Here you are shaking your fists at a man shaking his fists.
It's men shaking fists all the way down.
Photography and videography is a hobby. Not everything is for content.
I make short videos mostly for myself. It's nice to look back at this year later and have it all there for myself.
Vacation photos and videos don't even need to be a hobby. Everyone likes to save memories, even if they're not that pretty looking.
At least it's phones now, used to be dad's all over with the huge-ass VHS camcorder on thier shoulder.
My dad had a Handycam! I took mirror selfies with it too, I was a tween, no internet then either.
> try enjoying life a bit people The irony of this being a reply to a guy who says he gets pissed off at people that affect his life in no way whatsoever
This guy is malding up and down this thread over literally nothing meanwhile telling people to enjoy life more. The irony is palpable. I do agree that people should try to enjoy life more but I think this lil' fella misunderstood the assignment.
It's a 28 second video, grow up
But they don't want to be the old man!
Yet here you are 20 comments deep in an argument about how everyone else isn’t enjoying life instead of enjoying life
I'm actually quite on your side but I wouldn't say it's black and white. While my wife doesn't go as crazy with "content" she does take pics to the point I'd consider ruining the current experience but having said that, I do have to admit that she does get some nice shots and all this stuff is great for someone like me with a relatively poor memory. I rarely look at old pics though.
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This is such a weird comment. People take photos and videos when they go on holiday. This has always been done, since the dawn of easily accessible cameras. They're gonna have memories from their trips that they can look back on decades later. Stop being such a grouchy old man.
Did your parents not take pictures or make videos of your trips? People have taken pictures (and more recently videos) of themselves in vacation for a long time now. Why tf would you be pissed by “people filming themselves during vacations”?
People just want to enjoy (and remember) the memories they are making. Our family trip to the Grand Canyon my mom went through 2 rolls of film just stepping out of the car.
Maybe she should TRY ENJOYING LIFE INSTEAD. Those pictures are obviously just content bro
Exactly. It’s actually sad that people on this thread never had the joy of looking at old photo albums of trips and other good times of the past.
I personally hate taking photos of myself, but seriously, why all the judgement for someone merely videoing themselves?
I personally don't like filming stuff over enjoying it, but it's not unreasonable to make videos on vacation...that's a bit of a melodramatic take. Social media has made people over the top narcissistic, but your assertion that merely filming yourself on a vacation puts one in that category is a little ridiculous.
Being a doomer on social media > taking silly pictures while doing things in the real world
Waaaaaaaaaaa
My parents took photos of vacations throughout the 80s and 90s for the family photo book. You just sound grouchy and bitter.
Me me me me me. Not someone else, only me
Listen to my opinions about how other people are too self centered everyone!
lol would you rather they take photos of you?
You realize this is taken with a 360 go pro where you can change the video angle after the fact? They just made a version pointing at themselves for the memes... and to piss you off.
https://xkcd.com/1314/
How are you this angry at someone else recording themselves with a silly camera shot? Is your life that miserable? There was literally no ego involved. He simply wanted to record himself swimming with a silly camera angle. Grow up and mind your own business.
Careful you don't impale yourself sitting down with that stick up your ass.
And people called the 80s the "Me" decade.
To be 100% honest, if we had had smartphones with face camera, action cams, selfie sticks and all that crap, the 80s may have been as bad in that regards :(
that was a success to me
10/10 would watch again
the francis_bourgeois43 of the water
This was a triumph
Every Busta Rhymes video from the 1990's
Flipmode Squad!
Gimme some mo!
That music video is high art.
For the uninitiated: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=un3NkWnHl9Q&pp=ygUPZ2ltbWUgc29tZSBtb3Jl
THE FUCKING GOAT
LOL this took me way back, thanks
[Woo-Hah!!](https://youtu.be/EQzvQO2LcA4?si=EFrxiSQjK3AeFn-s)
"I got that head nod shit that make you break your neck"
Yo ^Yo ^^Yooo ^Yo Yo ^YO
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Why? If he visited multiple countries there, it makes sense to sum it up as “Europe”.
Most use it as a catch all for any country within Europe, like we are all one big country. Its fair to say Europe if you are visiting multiple countries but I would say that is definitely not the case given how much I see it written like that
The cost in time and money to travel to anywhere in Europe from the US is large compared to the cost of adding an extra country or two while you're there, so most people do visit more than one country. Like, you can double the cost of the trip and visit 5 countries instead of 1. I also imagine most Europeans vacationing in the US visit more than one state.
>I also imagine most Europeans vacationing in the US visit more than one state. Unless they're visiting explicitly to do that, it's unlikely. Almost everyone I know that's been to the US on holiday will go to one area and visit it. I'll be in LA soon, I might go to San Diego if I have the time, but the vast bulk of my trip will be spent in and around LA. There's plenty to see and do there. I don't need to travel hundreds of miles and see freeways after spending 11 hours on a flight. Same story when I've been on the East Coast. I'll visit a place and explore that place. We always find it wild when Americans share proposed itineraries on reddit where they "visit" 5 countries in as many days and then go home. At that point you've "been", but barely. Hell, on the UK sub, we see unrealistic itineraries all the time, and they are talking about visiting cities, let alone countries. I can only imagine it's like collecting stamps. You can go home and say you "visited" somewhere, but you didn't "see" any of it.
I've been to Europe once and spent three weeks, visiting Italy, France, and Spain, plus a few minor countries. I'll probably go once or twice more before I die. Sure, there's always more to see, but I don't think it's better to spend a week in Paris than spending 3 days in Paris and 3 days in Rome.
It is strange how that is one thing that does seem to be such a cultural difference between places. I, and most Europeans I know, would almost certainly choose the week in Paris over three days in each. I wonder if it partly comes down to quantity of holiday and how we’re allowed to take it, or if there’s something more ingrained.
I think it's because you can get to those places much easier, You can spend a week in Paris this year and a week in Rome next year. I could spend a week in Washington DC this year and a week in Colorado next year, but I couldn't do a week in Paris and then a week in Rome on separate trips. If I want to see both of them, I need to do it on the same trip.
It’s an attitude that I see retained despite the distance travelled though. I’ve known plenty of Europeans who will for example go on holiday to San Francisco. Just San Francisco. No desire to try and cram in Los Angeles or Sacramento (assuming any tourist has gone there by choice in the first place) into the same trip. I suppose maybe a little day excursion to Muir Woods or something.
If you want to be running around for the holiday. I would take the week in Paris please. But then again I'm from Ireland and I can go to Rome next time
You could say the same about the US
Yeah, this why you can simply say “my trip to the US”. No one is arguing against that, you are just making up imaginary arguments in your head.
When most people say their going to Europe it’s cause they plan to go to multiple countries. I think you’re also making up an imaginary argument.
No because then I'd say that I went to North America, then it'd be the same thing.
Just curious, would you say you’re going to the States for holiday or you’re going to Florida for holiday?
I’ve heard some over sea guys just straight say I’m going on holiday in America with no further context unless I ask where specifically.
Both, the united states is a country, Florida is the specific state. If i said “Im going to North America”, that would be weird If I go on Holiday to Spain, I will say Spain, or I might name the specific city/island. Just whatever I feel like saying at the time
And America as a country is larger than most of Europe as a continent. So saying, I'm taking a holiday in California, that's not anymore specific than saying I'm vacationing in an area roughly the size of France, Spain and the UK put together. Maybe a more accurate example is that if I said I'm visiting Belgium, that's about as specific as saying LA county. So yeah, saying "I'm going to visit Asia" makes no sense. "I'm going to visit Europe" is a lot simpler than, "I'm going to visit some places in an area roughly the size of Texas"
>the united states is a country, Florida is the specific state. 
Me, as most of the world, say the US. If someone asks which part, which is actually a standard follow up question when you say any country, then I specify which part. The only exception might be if I'm visiting a single city in which case I might mention the city but, spoiler alert, I would do the same with any country in the world, so I would say I'm going to Rome, Paris, London, or Barcelona instead of Italy, France, UK, or Spain.
He likely is visiting more than one country. I am American and have never once heard in real life someone say Europe unless they were referring to multiple countries.
They do the same to America. Which part? Which state? A trip to Arkansas is an entirely different thing than a trip to New York or Florida
Weak
Let the pissy European be pissy. He won’t change, and no one cares anyway.
One of the weirder things to be upset about. But keep it up champ.
Lmao seriously, I'm not even from US and find that "observation" ridiculous, like they are looking to get offended at Americans indiscriminately
Welcome to Reddit
north americans or south americans? canadians?
I love when picking at America is someone’s whole personality.
Like when Europeans say they’re going to “America”?
That just means the US though
No one fucking cares, dude.
It’s funny. Cuz ironically Europeans say they same on vacation to America and never mention the state. Your nitpicking at that point cuz it’s still Europe.
Just like how you say Americans but you probably don't mean ALL the people that live in America. There is North America and South America both are America. You probably mean the people from U.S.A.
I mean.... https://preview.redd.it/56dg7xatwp8d1.jpeg?width=789&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=91ed07e625e4370f7de768c4d889a474e4589cd0
I’m sure he didn’t want to list off the five separate countries. People say they’re going to America without listing which states.
Yeah it's because we don't fucking care. No one goes to Europe and only goes to one country. We are not going to list all the countries we visit until we do the slide show. We have shit to do! Those gas guzzling truck aren't going to drive themselves. Guns won't kill people without us so we have to get out there and do it. No time to list countries!
What a strange thing to be overly sensitive about. It doesn't even make sense really.
Canadians and people in South America are “Americans” too. Do you see where you went wrong there yet?
Yeah, you try telling a Canadian that they're an American.
We will send the Cobra Chickens after you for such a violation
I think this is only weird if you’re from that place. To Americans, if someone says they’re visiting the U.S. they’ll wonder where you mean. As a trip to New Orleans, Louisiana is very different culture, food, accents/dialect, than a trip to Los Angeles, California or Branson, Missouri. Sure, Europe has very diverse countries with lots of different cuisines, building styles, culture, etc. But to Americans it’s easier to just say “Europe” especially if you’re visiting multiple countries. It’s a “faux pas” to either area to simply say “visiting the U.S.” or “visiting Europe” because the people from those areas obviously understand the large difference/variations of each state/country. As an American, it doesn’t help that most European countries are aligned under the “European Union” which to us sounds very similar to our union of states. Honestly it’s no different than saying you’re visiting Russia or China, without context you have no idea where they’re actually going because it’s such a large landmass
Hate when Americans say they went to the place they went to
Sounds like someone had a case of the Mondays….
No no, he did actually film himself during vacation
I held it together until he went underwater.
Yea it was pretty funny already, but when he went underwater I lost it.
 Bro really turned into a goblin shark
This just made me LOL. Thanks, stranger. I needed that.
Mr. Bean
This just rage bait. It’s a 360 camera with a mouth mount. You just rotate the video in the editor and export a perfect video of what he saw from the first person perspective. He got great footage.
Thank you! I was wondering where the hell the camera is...
OP is one of the most prolific spam bots on this site, yes.
Kevin Bacon.
It's more like Pig Bacon. No disrespect
Attack on titan: operation europe
https://i.redd.it/1849k9u9uq8d1.gif
I scrolled too far for this
I never understood how mfs keep their eyes open in the ocean
Nostril 👃 cam? 😳
Do you love trains?
Reminds me of that scene from strange wilderness. “Durhurhurhur! Durhurhur!”
What a majestic creature!
This Peppa Pig episode is boring without the funny voices
His nose traveled to Europe
This is hilarious. I need a whole genre of YouTube videos like this. Pig face 360
The part of him underwater had me dead af 💀
Damn I need a vacation, that water looks so nice. We are struggling out here.
Ahh man that’s awesome
Looks like pig from Angry Birds
I need to know what beach that is
He animorphed into a turtle
I think it's hilarious that when he gets in the water he transforms into a happy little fish.
Don't see a problem - came out good
Majestic
I am more curious on how the camera is been held.
Is he swimming with his eyes open in the ocean? Boys gonna need some drops.
Mans turned himself into a puffer fish
Is that Bomb Voyage?
He 100% knew what he was going to get.
Suddenly turned into some sort of underwater Super Mario Bros enemy
It's the white ghost that kind of waddle fly in Luigi haunted Mansion
Dude is a titan
titans dont know how to swim.
Looks like a 🐽
Swimming headman can’t hurt me
Just follow your nose, it always knows!
Like the beats C. Allen | Globetrotter (Oscilloscope Music) https://youtu.be/J2YQD8Go_Hc
Quite nosey here, aren't we?
Mr. Bean
Shnoze camera functions properly, shnisn't it?
He looks like Tak from Nickelodeon
Why does bro remind me of a walrus lmao
He looks like the most handsome mutant.
Zoolander face ass
He did though
Look at [this](https://pasteboard.co/jDahPrgr1Jaj.jpg) cute little fish tough
Looks like what Eren Jaeger was trying to annihilate
no one nose how that happened
Oink.
Daddy shark
Ayo some piglett escaped from angry birds XD
that's Nick Jonas.
Looks like the shark in Finding Nemo
Mr. bean on vacation
Ita a dork fish!
Where the help was it an attempt?? Successfully done
...and this dear friends, is how I found out I am actually a Manatee
I very rarely laugh out load at things on the internet, but this got a genuine chuckle out of me.
Just keep swimming
Goofy fon-fon-fon
attempt successful
This little piggy went on a tropical vacation I guess. Who in their right mind would think the bite mount is meant for a selfie?
The moment he went into the water I hollered like a fucking baboon LMAO!
The bully from Luca
God that underwater swimming part has me fuckin rolling, holyshit I was not expecting to laugh that hard. Its gets better the second time.