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The sun is out, the weather is nice, and with the nice weather comes concert season. Live bands, outdoor venues, tailgating, beers. How can you not like concert season? Concerts are great and generally worth every dollar even if the seats aren’t that good.
Now, thanks to Snapchat, one doesn’t even have to drop a dime on a pair of tickets for you and a hot date to enjoy a show because everyone knows someone on social media who spends more time recording the concert than actually watching the performance. I’m not here to thank those people. No. I’m actually here to do the opposite. Put down the phone and enjoy the show for once.
Look, I am guilty of it. I think we all are to some extent. However, this is an area of life in which you should practice moderation and use some self-control. One or two clips is understandable. The effect is diluted when you send me eight clips of the same song. I get it. You’re at Luke Bryan. Cool. But you’re ruining my Snap story streak. I had a dozen people in a row that I was living vicariously through, 20-30 seconds at a time. And then you pop up in the queue with your five-minute concert of Nick Jonas.
You leave me no choice but to violently tap my screen in a state of frustration so I can move on with my life and bypass yours. I can’t leave unwatched stories sitting in the queue, but I’m sure as hell not going to sit there and pretend to enjoy your videography.
No one — I repeat, no one — enjoys your ten-second clip of an indistinguishable figure hundreds of feet away that is masked by four different colored strobe lights whose voice is drowned out by your own screaming. The video quality in these clips is always atrocious — shaky at best and nausea-inducing at worst. The audio quality is just about the same. If the individual is not in the background screaming, then everyone around them is. You may hear one or two words from the performer but they are usually so far away that even that is a stretch. You are the reason I watch snap stories on mute. How do you feel about yourself now?
Is it too much to ask that you people put a governor on that thing? Instead of draining your phone battery snapping away with no regard for humanity, could you just give us the highlights? We don’t really want to see the whole thing. One or two clips is enough to make me jealous and instill a little FOMO but any more than that and I start losing respect for you as an individual. The best concerts are when you completely forget you even have your phone because you got a few good buddies next to you or an arm around your significant other. Nothing else matters but the tunes and the good company. Wouldn’t you rather enjoy the show through the two eyeballs and ears that you have been #blessed with instead of a pixelated shot on your phone and crackling speakers?
Think of it this way: next time you whip out your phone for a string of snaps you’re about to send me, just know that I am getting the same quality of entertainment that you are. And I didn’t have to drop $90 on a ticket. Put it down and enjoy the show..
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@207Cush
With this, I will now refrain from writing “stop” articles. I don’t want this to become the new ghosting thing. Apologies to the people.
I can actually get on board with this one though. When I’m laying in at midnight cruising through snapchat I don’t want to get blasted with distorted music that’s too far away and too blurry to see who is singing it.
The name of the game is content creation. These “stop” articles do get old, but really their goal is to get them spread online, if one of these resonates with people–they hope it gets shared. It does get old for regular readers–but I guess I can’t complain too much–I have adblock on. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
It still confuses me why people think that multiple snaps of a concert are something anybody would be interested in watching. Shitty sound, shitty video. Just stop already, no one cares.
“The best concerts are the ones that you forget that you even have a phone…” Excellent sentiment.
Also, unless you are a 16 year old girl there is no excuse spending money on a Luke Bryan or nick Jonas concert.
My 26 year old guy friend just spent $175 each for he and his wife on Luke Bryan tickets, and he’s the self-proclaimed country boy of my friends. It’s hard to not hate him.
I try to aim for one snap per artist. Just enough to give a peek of the show, hopefully not enough to make people delete me.
As the guy that does this, I don’t do this for y’all to view on my snapstory. In fact, I’ve made it a habit to delete it off my story as soon as I’m in the uber home from the concert. I do it so I can go back and rewatch the highlights later on and have everything saved to one video.
You could just record a video so people don’t have to watch it on your story…
Then I would have 10/15 separate videos. See my last sentence and get back to me.
That’s fine, you do you. Just understand that people hate you.
And not just your friends. The complete strangers standing behind you also hate you.
And your parents are disappointed in you, too. Not because of the snapchat thing, just… in general.
6’4″, people behind me at concerts already hate me
Also, I fully expect that comment to be the most downvoted comment of all time
I got downvoted 50 times last week on a single comment. Can’t get much worse than that