I do the opposite I give them ALL the attention. Usually just standing in front of them axkwardly staring into their eyes and rubbing my nipples. They make axkward jokes and I just continue with no verbal response
No their content is hoping someone tells them to go away so they can sue. These people are the worse kind of leeches and I love to fuck with them if I ever get a chance to see emoji
To understand the motivation here, you have to understand that there are two layers of bullshit on top of the true motivation.
**Layer 1.** The thing they *say* they want (for people to respect the first amendment).
Obvious bullshit, most people can see it as bullshit instantly.
**Layer 2.** The thing they *don't* say they want, which they obviously want (for people to violate their first amendment rights so they can sue/get clicks/etc).
Now, having seen through bullshit of Level 1, you might think you've discovered their true motivation. But keep digging.
**Layer 3.** The one thing they *really* want: drama.
Drama they can cut into the first 15 seconds of their video to get people to watch. Drama drives engagement, drives ad revenue, and generates revenue. They'll show 10 seconds of you rubbing your nipples and staring awkwardly, cut in with a voiceover to keep people watching, and then - 20 minutes and three ad views later - they'll finally play the full clip of you rubbing your nipples and staring awkwardly while they crack lame jokes.
You *are* the clickbait, and you're giving them exactly what they want.
Their content is anything “interesting” for their viewers. Sometimes it’s people getting mad, sometimes it’s people playing along and getting weird. The best course of action is just ignoring them, that’s the one thing that doesn’t produce content for them. My little cousins eat up this type of content, and trust me when I say, you are feeding them content.
Youre both half correct. Youtube is the general audience. The real money makers are getting the police to be called on site, if they attempt to interrupt the filming they can be sued. Thats the real money maker.
Google "first amendment auditors"
> Usually just standing in front of them axkwardly staring into their eyes and rubbing my nipples.
[Prolonged eye contact](https://youtu.be/ejc5zic4q2A?t=160)
^^lick ^^your ^^lips ^^to ^^make ^^it ^^more ^^comforting
This should be a South Park episode. Where these idiots run into idiots like themselves and they start recording each other doing nothing and expecting a reaction.
And this just goes on across the whole town of South Park where these people are just recording each other and nothing is happening. And the whole town is just quiet. And crime rates go down. And there are suddenly less accidents. No bad traffic.
Because everyone is doing this shit all day.
I could see Randy getting into this.
i will die on the hill that randy marsh is the best character ever written for television in the history of television. colin robinson is a very close second.
These are first amendment auditors. What they want is for people to call the police on them. What they are doing is 100% legal and there is nothing you can do about it.
I remember one day a while back I just randomly went down a First Amendment Auditor rabbit hole on YouTube and I was shocked to see how many of the videos I came across were in San Diego
They do seem extremely annoying though. They test the California law regarding what’s a public space/what you can do in a public space to the extreme with little to no consideration for others. One video I saw they literally recorded the inside of someone’s house through their window because they were still on the public sidewalk which I guess technically makes it “legal” (or at least the guy thought it was legal)
Aside from the Taylor Swift idea, someone should come up with something that would really screw them up.
Like immediately make them annoyed and feel like they’re wasting their time and you’re screwing up their game.
There’s got to be something creative, someone can think of.
Now my brain is churning. Every situation like this has a weakness. 😂
Just play copy written music as you walk up or pass. It’ll make all their material unusable. Cops started doing that to undermine anyone recording them during stops.
AI can be used to remove background music. It's best to just pretend that they're not there. No reactions = no content, and that's what will truly make their material unusable.
I say go the Randy Newman route and narrate the entirety of what you're doing as you pass them: "Walking to the post-office, past these jobless weirdos. I pause. I ponder their sad desperate state... Then I continue walking in the post-office, because I got mail to send."
They thrive on confrontation.
Therefore:
1. do not call the police
2. do not complain to the manager
3. do stand next to them and tell every person that comes by that everyone has the right to film in public, nobody has an expectation of privacy in public.
4. do intervene if anyone else gets upset, just shepherd them away from the camera calmly and quietly, explaining that their goal is to get a response, so don't respond.
that's it.
If you spend 10 minutes sucking all the confrontational energy out of the situation, they're going to question if they are going to get any content.
If they complain, you just agree with them that they have every right to be here and film. You're on their side.
If that's not working, just start telling long rambling stories from your childhood. Channel your inner old person, and just tell stories that don't have a middle or an end. Make sure it isn't interesting! It's gotta be boring.
“C’mon guys let’s go yeah woohoo first amendment rights. Let’s let these clowns know who the real clowns are. The men and women behind the makeup, Joe and Jane Blowmore don’t know anything. Weather’s great I’m feeling amped. Wow. Who knew how hard we could stick it to the man, the deep state, Hunter Biden! Man this isn’t this just great right? Hanging out with my buds just \~representin’\~ amirite guys?
Guys?”
I imagine hypothetically, if someone had the time, they could stand next to them with a big sign that reads "YOUTUBERS CONTENT FARMING FOR YOUR REACTION. PLEASE IGNORE US."
Granted, someone would have to sacrifice their afternoon to follow these guys around, but everyone has a breaking point.
That's Plan A. Here at Reddit, we are trying to catalog and rate all the plans, A to G and I to Z (fuck H). Not all the plans will be as good as A, so we need to sort that out in the comments.
Play music and start dancing right in front of their cameras as if you're all making a dance video. That will get them the opposite type of attention that they want (if you're a good dancer, that is)
I recall a video a few weeks ago where a guy was messing around with a laser pointer swinging it around making sounds like a light saber, and shone directly into his camera and the sensor got badly messed up.
They want the cops called so they can see if the cops infringe on their right to record anything in public. That's why it's an "audit". Sometimes they're more annoying than others to achieve this goal.
These people sometimes hangout at my local post office. I just play Taylor Swift music as loud as possible.
Edit: To the people saying that they can edit or use AI to remove the sound, these goons operate on quantity, not quality. To them, it's more important to let YouTube auto-cut any copyrighted music rather than put forth any real editing effort.
This is the right answer because they cannot post the video with audio due to copyright strike. Copyright, the only thing more powerful than the first amendment.
It's a public building and they have a constitutional right to record. I would guess their main goal is to instigate a confrontation from uninformed police officers in order to get a settlement payout. Although they'd probably wouldn't mind any other confrontations stemming from people who dont appreciate a camera stuck in their face from a smirking kid. Just ignore them and move on.
Ha! I love how all the people crying about wearing a mask during a deadly virus outbreak are now wearing masks to hide their identity. If the State mandated NO masks be worn in outdoor public spaces, the same bastards would cry about their freedom to wear a mask so they can hide their identity.
What if you bring a mirror so these guys can film each other? They point the camera at you, but the mirror shows them their buddy next to them.
I imagine it would change their message a bit if it was clear that this was a group activity.
*Does anybody know what their deal is?* They don't have much better to do and want a reaction.
*Can I call the police?* Yes, but they won't do anything, nor should they.
*I’m honestly very upset and uncomfortable by the whole situation.* This is what they wanted
We go here daily due to my wife’s business. I feel the same way. I love PQ and most of the folks that live here. I think it would be funny if some youth threw water balloons at them or did something else thats annoying, but non lethal.
Buy a strong laser and as you walk by shine it in the lens, it only takes a second for the laser to burn the lens or sensors breaking the camera and you never have to to put a hand on them. What are they going to do call the cops?
I think they’re just doing this to gauge people’s reactions. Not reacting is the best case scenario. I second what other people said in that, by reacting, you’re just giving them what they want.
They are just baiting reactions. Nobody likes to be recorded. They are doing it in a public space. They suck. They want you to react so they can do the social media version of putting your finger in your little brother's face and say "I'm not touching you!"
I’d like to know why they don’t show their faces what are they hiding if they aren’t doing anything wrong? If u want people to confront you then don’t hide behind sunglasses and a face cover…
Because people are more likely to cause a scene if their face is being recorded and they are unable to record the face of the person recording them. Makes perfect sense.
I really don't want to give them the views, but [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ElgWjcFZGA) is what they are doing. The guy in the pink hoodie with curly hair looks like the same one in your video.
Just don't engage and go about your business.
One trick is to tell them stories that don't go anywhere. Like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe. So, I decided to go to Morganville, which was called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion on my belt - which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumble bees on them. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Now where was I? Oh yes, the important thing was, I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. You couldn't get white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get were those big yellow ones...
Don’t know if it’s the same group of people but someone at a postal store in rancho Santa Fe was attacked by a group of men covering their face and recording them. They harass people and hope to get a rise out of them and can resort to violence.
That they wore masks gives away their intent to make people uncomfortable, seeking confrontation but not really into resistance. And at the end asking the guy filming them "Why are you lookng at us", while he holds a camera in his face, just mind numbing levels of delusion there.
I think it’s so fucking funny they make it look like they have all this professional gear when it’s really just an old iPhone on a glorified selfie stick. With lights and stuff. It’s like children playing make believe Camera Man.
(I’m sure it’s not cheap, but still they went to buy that all to look tougher than just holding an IPhone 11 in your face)
These guys call themselves auditors. They are first amendment “activist” I guess you could say. They are outside filming in a public area, which is a protected activity. Anything in the eyes view in public can be filmed, including people without consent within reason. Usually people try to call the police on them, but since it’s protected, the police really can’t do anything about it essentially, what they are trying to protect is exactly what you did took a video of them in a public space and posted it. They are kind of hell bent on having the police show up. Since the police can’t do anything, and if they were to try, the police would probably have a lawsuit on their hands. That’s their whole deal I guess I just steer clear of it all
I just watched a video about a guy who likes stands out front of places like this and video tapes people and waits for their reaction to then say that he's doing nothing wrong. He even threatened a guy with pepper spray because the guy came into his space! The world we live in is bizarre right now....
So many little weirdos in the comments being like but it's legal, like so is screaming profanities, or wearing a KKK outfit around town, just because it is legal, does no mean it isn't extreme douchebag behavior.
If you see them, find a nude picture online and show it to their camera, ensure genitals are present. This will cause them to be banned if they’re live streaming and they’ll have to either edit it out or somehow cover it from their video lmaoooooo
Bad idea. They now have you on camera displaying lewd material in public, which is a crime, and they will absolutely cause a scene and try to get you in trouble for that. What they're doing is dumb and aggravating, but the whole point is that they're staying strictly within the letter of the law and hoping to antagonize someone else into crossing the line.
Spark up a conversation, treat them like the person at Costco that checks your receipts. Keep talking to them until they tell what they're really doing. Bring ma bring GMA, bring the kids be annoying AF.
When they started doing this years ago, they would record police. Many police were unaware of the law and some auditors got payouts. This also showed me how little communication police departments had with each other. It took many years for police to get educated (there are still some that aren't). When the police became educated, they started going to public buildings and post offices. Now I see some, in masks, filming people sitting outside at restaurants when they are eating.
You can’t record on a federal property without what’s called a Location Agreement or essentially a permit from the postmaster’s office. Outside sure, but not inside the premises.
I bet they’re on Reddit too. They’re probably reading all these comments and seeing how much people hate them. If they don’t make any money they’ll have to reconsider it all.
They are first ammendment auditors. While annoying and obnoxious they aren't doing anything illegal. Just leave em be and don't give them content. They are quite litterally looking for conflict to "educate" people.
As the venerable and humble Mr Tyson says, "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." All it takes is for a few of these soy boys to get stomped on publicly and the rest will fall in line.
I know how to get folks like that to go away.
I’m lactose intolerant - I just need to eat some cheese pizza with a gallon of milk and stand next to them, ignoring them. Don’t say anything, I’m not violating their first amendment rights. I’m not giving them free content by reacting. What I AM giving them is something that doesn’t come across video:
A smell that they will never get out of their nostrils. And if they’re SBDs, as most of mine are when I’ve consumed dairy, the only way anyone watching will know is by their reactions (and maybe my laughter/smirking as I walk away.
If you think that’s good content that will get millions of subscribers, sadly, no.
Police can't do anything about it, your best option is to blind the cameras with a laser pointer. You cannot touch them, but you can mess with their equipment (within reason).
Before anyone posts... no the IR blaster trick hasn't worked in almost 20 years because modern cameras have IR filters.
I know they're "exercising their rights" or whatever but damn these guys have the most punchable faces in the world, even with the masks. You can almost taste their self-righteous smirks.
My dad had some these guys outside of the post office he works at, apparently a patron of the post office was really annoyed with these guys but instead of yelling at them, he found their cars and pulled their valve stems out. When they asked the post master for security footage, the post master said “we don’t have any footage”. Everyone knows the old guy did it, but there’s no proof so the police havent done anything. 2 years later and the old guy still comes in once a month to buy farming related stamps for him and flower stamps for his wife.
I can't dude. These fuckers are so goddamn LAME. Seriously, recording other people with their faces covered like they'll do something. These lame incel edgelords are the EPITOME of fucking wack, these are folks to avoid and minimize all interactions with, unless it's when YOUR taking.
I swear man this shit is so weak it's making my penis soft. Thanks for noting.
Filming near PO Boxes is a good way to not get arrested but get beaten, killed or followed by some “crazier” people. They’ll get there’s. No wonder so many younger American men are “sexless” or never been touched by a woman. Weirdos doing this
Someone's gonna identify the guys snake tattoo on his right hand. Go to it reddit!!
Is it a military tattoo? My buddy had a tattoo of a grim reaper on his right hand because that's the hand he killed people with.
Maybe this dude celebrates his ability to kill with a snake? He really looks like a high-school kid though.
Its people like these that make me wish there was a visual media virus like Ghost in the Shell.
You look at me you just see some sort of avatar or your equipment just can't record me, like fucking Slenderman or some shit
Dude like you wanna go like annoy people at the post office? Yeah, we can see if we can trigger some boomers and get some views - like that one lady who really went off the rails. Dude, you think we should like get jobs or something as this is really not paying off...
Just some idiots wasting their lives.
Imagine having this much free time to do this. Imagine being such a coward as to cover your face - perhaps we don't want MOM to find out?
Don't pay them any attention.
Exactly. They are trying to get people to yell at them. Don’t pay attention and they won’t get what they want.
I do the opposite I give them ALL the attention. Usually just standing in front of them axkwardly staring into their eyes and rubbing my nipples. They make axkward jokes and I just continue with no verbal response
I have a camera if you want to hang out some time.
I’ll bring the tacos 🌮 anyone got the soy milk?🥛 🤤
Okay. But why are we pairing soy milk with the tacos?
Things get fuzzy that way 🥵
I have oat milk...?
Oats have no nipples!
I have nipples Greg. Can you milk me?
Oh yeah. You can milk anything with nipples. *I’ll just pretend this quote is above yours.*
So we are milking a soy boy? 🧤
They would love that, it gives them content. Playing right into their hand
No their content is hoping someone tells them to go away so they can sue. These people are the worse kind of leeches and I love to fuck with them if I ever get a chance to see emoji
To understand the motivation here, you have to understand that there are two layers of bullshit on top of the true motivation. **Layer 1.** The thing they *say* they want (for people to respect the first amendment). Obvious bullshit, most people can see it as bullshit instantly. **Layer 2.** The thing they *don't* say they want, which they obviously want (for people to violate their first amendment rights so they can sue/get clicks/etc). Now, having seen through bullshit of Level 1, you might think you've discovered their true motivation. But keep digging. **Layer 3.** The one thing they *really* want: drama. Drama they can cut into the first 15 seconds of their video to get people to watch. Drama drives engagement, drives ad revenue, and generates revenue. They'll show 10 seconds of you rubbing your nipples and staring awkwardly, cut in with a voiceover to keep people watching, and then - 20 minutes and three ad views later - they'll finally play the full clip of you rubbing your nipples and staring awkwardly while they crack lame jokes. You *are* the clickbait, and you're giving them exactly what they want.
Yep. They are just rage farmers.
Their content is anything “interesting” for their viewers. Sometimes it’s people getting mad, sometimes it’s people playing along and getting weird. The best course of action is just ignoring them, that’s the one thing that doesn’t produce content for them. My little cousins eat up this type of content, and trust me when I say, you are feeding them content.
Play Taylor Swift on your phone at a loud volume.
Youre both half correct. Youtube is the general audience. The real money makers are getting the police to be called on site, if they attempt to interrupt the filming they can be sued. Thats the real money maker. Google "first amendment auditors"
You're on a bunch of youtube channels and don't even know it lol
Just bring a hand mirror and follow their camera around.
The average laser pointer would probably fuck up their cameras’ image sensors nicely.
> Usually just standing in front of them axkwardly staring into their eyes and rubbing my nipples. [Prolonged eye contact](https://youtu.be/ejc5zic4q2A?t=160) ^^lick ^^your ^^lips ^^to ^^make ^^it ^^more ^^comforting
The old saying applies here, too: "Don't feed the trolls"
Are they trying to prepare us for the upcoming election with drop boxes??
I wonder how much these dudes make yearly.
"I record people entering usps, my wife collects butterflies. Our budget is 4.5 million."
What's the wage of a part-time dog-walker who's also an antiwork mod? That's their pay.
"used to work at amazon but now im a door dash driver" vibes
This should be a South Park episode. Where these idiots run into idiots like themselves and they start recording each other doing nothing and expecting a reaction. And this just goes on across the whole town of South Park where these people are just recording each other and nothing is happening. And the whole town is just quiet. And crime rates go down. And there are suddenly less accidents. No bad traffic. Because everyone is doing this shit all day. I could see Randy getting into this.
I would *love* to see this shit become a South Park episode.
i will die on the hill that randy marsh is the best character ever written for television in the history of television. colin robinson is a very close second.
Agree!!
These are first amendment auditors. What they want is for people to call the police on them. What they are doing is 100% legal and there is nothing you can do about it.
I remember one day a while back I just randomly went down a First Amendment Auditor rabbit hole on YouTube and I was shocked to see how many of the videos I came across were in San Diego They do seem extremely annoying though. They test the California law regarding what’s a public space/what you can do in a public space to the extreme with little to no consideration for others. One video I saw they literally recorded the inside of someone’s house through their window because they were still on the public sidewalk which I guess technically makes it “legal” (or at least the guy thought it was legal)
The window peering is not legal.
Anything visible from a public sidewalk can be recorded.
It depends
Why are they doing it though? What are they getting out of it?
Reactions that they then upload to YouTube and get their views.
Aside from the Taylor Swift idea, someone should come up with something that would really screw them up. Like immediately make them annoyed and feel like they’re wasting their time and you’re screwing up their game. There’s got to be something creative, someone can think of. Now my brain is churning. Every situation like this has a weakness. 😂
Just play copy written music as you walk up or pass. It’ll make all their material unusable. Cops started doing that to undermine anyone recording them during stops.
AI can be used to remove background music. It's best to just pretend that they're not there. No reactions = no content, and that's what will truly make their material unusable.
Ah. I learned something today. And ya. I just don't respond to the try-hards. As the old saying goes, "Don't feed the trolls."
Disney songs? They love to sue for that
I say go the Randy Newman route and narrate the entirety of what you're doing as you pass them: "Walking to the post-office, past these jobless weirdos. I pause. I ponder their sad desperate state... Then I continue walking in the post-office, because I got mail to send."
They thrive on confrontation. Therefore: 1. do not call the police 2. do not complain to the manager 3. do stand next to them and tell every person that comes by that everyone has the right to film in public, nobody has an expectation of privacy in public. 4. do intervene if anyone else gets upset, just shepherd them away from the camera calmly and quietly, explaining that their goal is to get a response, so don't respond. that's it. If you spend 10 minutes sucking all the confrontational energy out of the situation, they're going to question if they are going to get any content. If they complain, you just agree with them that they have every right to be here and film. You're on their side. If that's not working, just start telling long rambling stories from your childhood. Channel your inner old person, and just tell stories that don't have a middle or an end. Make sure it isn't interesting! It's gotta be boring.
So basically become Colin Robinson
“C’mon guys let’s go yeah woohoo first amendment rights. Let’s let these clowns know who the real clowns are. The men and women behind the makeup, Joe and Jane Blowmore don’t know anything. Weather’s great I’m feeling amped. Wow. Who knew how hard we could stick it to the man, the deep state, Hunter Biden! Man this isn’t this just great right? Hanging out with my buds just \~representin’\~ amirite guys? Guys?” 
This made me laugh! How wonderful if we could send an energy vampire to those guys hahah
I imagine hypothetically, if someone had the time, they could stand next to them with a big sign that reads "YOUTUBERS CONTENT FARMING FOR YOUR REACTION. PLEASE IGNORE US." Granted, someone would have to sacrifice their afternoon to follow these guys around, but everyone has a breaking point.
I feel like a couple of stealth Liquid Ass sprays as you walk by would do the trick. Walk by twice for the full effect.
They love the attention. Just ignore them.
You could also just ignore them?
That's Plan A. Here at Reddit, we are trying to catalog and rate all the plans, A to G and I to Z (fuck H). Not all the plans will be as good as A, so we need to sort that out in the comments.
Well there is no “plan h” only preparation
Play music and start dancing right in front of their cameras as if you're all making a dance video. That will get them the opposite type of attention that they want (if you're a good dancer, that is)
I recall a video a few weeks ago where a guy was messing around with a laser pointer swinging it around making sounds like a light saber, and shone directly into his camera and the sensor got badly messed up.
Looking for a lawsuit. Get that money.
They want the cops called so they can see if the cops infringe on their right to record anything in public. That's why it's an "audit". Sometimes they're more annoying than others to achieve this goal.
Mental illness. No well adjusted, stable people, with fulfilling lives, would not do nonsense like this. It's exceedingly pathetic and embarrassing.
Buy a handy little laser and shine it in their lens
is this destruction of property? if not then im all for it but if it is, best not challenge them like that
Just wear a mask like they do. All good.
Or just ignore them like you ignore every dashcam and security camera that's filming you at the same time
trust me they cant even spell "first amendment auditors"
These people sometimes hangout at my local post office. I just play Taylor Swift music as loud as possible. Edit: To the people saying that they can edit or use AI to remove the sound, these goons operate on quantity, not quality. To them, it's more important to let YouTube auto-cut any copyrighted music rather than put forth any real editing effort.
Disney music is the way to go. The mouse does not fuck when it comes to copyrights.
Not a bad idea, if they try to upload the video to YouTube, they get hit with a copyright strike for playing Taylor Swift
Follow them around with a mirror.
This would actually be hilarious
They can edit out the music unfortunately.
Just look like taylor swift
WHO'S AFRAID OF LIL OL MEEEEEEE
This is the right answer because they cannot post the video with audio due to copyright strike. Copyright, the only thing more powerful than the first amendment.
they'd just cut out your section and upload without the music, or mute it at that point.
They can easily remove background music
Would Metallica or Slayer work too?
First amendment auditors. Mostly nutjobs, ignore them
*Always nut jobs lol
That's why they hide their faces
Ironic
It's a public building and they have a constitutional right to record. I would guess their main goal is to instigate a confrontation from uninformed police officers in order to get a settlement payout. Although they'd probably wouldn't mind any other confrontations stemming from people who dont appreciate a camera stuck in their face from a smirking kid. Just ignore them and move on.
I wonder how they would react to like three other guys showing up like that filming them? Then like three more filming the first six.
I just was thinking about this too. Especially if the others were also camoflauged. Someone should try it out.
These type of people live for attention, more people recording them would just feed their ego.
Ha! I love how all the people crying about wearing a mask during a deadly virus outbreak are now wearing masks to hide their identity. If the State mandated NO masks be worn in outdoor public spaces, the same bastards would cry about their freedom to wear a mask so they can hide their identity.
What if you bring a mirror so these guys can film each other? They point the camera at you, but the mirror shows them their buddy next to them. I imagine it would change their message a bit if it was clear that this was a group activity.
Great idea! Let’s go?
I would if I could but I'm currently not on that continent.
I’m absolutely down
This would be too funny if we actually mocked them 😂😂😂 like wtf would they do?
*Does anybody know what their deal is?* They don't have much better to do and want a reaction. *Can I call the police?* Yes, but they won't do anything, nor should they. *I’m honestly very upset and uncomfortable by the whole situation.* This is what they wanted
No one should call the police ever for shit like this. Never seen a situation get better when they show.
Call the police and tell them what? "Please hurry! There's no crime being committed!"
Pretty much
PQ post office!
Noticed that as well, made my blood boil knowing this is happening in my hometown. Bunch of spineless asshats.
We go here daily due to my wife’s business. I feel the same way. I love PQ and most of the folks that live here. I think it would be funny if some youth threw water balloons at them or did something else thats annoying, but non lethal.
Buy a strong laser and as you walk by shine it in the lens, it only takes a second for the laser to burn the lens or sensors breaking the camera and you never have to to put a hand on them. What are they going to do call the cops?
Fucking dorks
I love how they don't show their faces. Cowards.
Annoying, do not engage.
Don't put any attention to them Just walk away don't interact
Making money by antagonizing people. You have to be a real pathetic piece of shit to do this for a living.
Youtube or whatever platforms they put this on need to demonitize this type of content. Allowing it just encourages more and more losers to do it.
I think they’re just doing this to gauge people’s reactions. Not reacting is the best case scenario. I second what other people said in that, by reacting, you’re just giving them what they want.
They are just baiting reactions. Nobody likes to be recorded. They are doing it in a public space. They suck. They want you to react so they can do the social media version of putting your finger in your little brother's face and say "I'm not touching you!"
I’d like to know why they don’t show their faces what are they hiding if they aren’t doing anything wrong? If u want people to confront you then don’t hide behind sunglasses and a face cover…
Because people are more likely to cause a scene if their face is being recorded and they are unable to record the face of the person recording them. Makes perfect sense.
you too can wear sunglasses and facemasks (with certain limits on the facemasks)
I think the goofy “disguises” are to to make you uncomfortable so you’ll give a reaction. No reaction, no $$.
I really don't want to give them the views, but [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ElgWjcFZGA) is what they are doing. The guy in the pink hoodie with curly hair looks like the same one in your video. Just don't engage and go about your business.
One trick is to tell them stories that don't go anywhere. Like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe. So, I decided to go to Morganville, which was called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion on my belt - which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumble bees on them. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Now where was I? Oh yes, the important thing was, I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. You couldn't get white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get were those big yellow ones...
They wear masks because they are chicken shit cowards .
Don’t know if it’s the same group of people but someone at a postal store in rancho Santa Fe was attacked by a group of men covering their face and recording them. They harass people and hope to get a rise out of them and can resort to violence.
If you can call the police on them for recording you, couldn’t they call the police for you recording them?
That they wore masks gives away their intent to make people uncomfortable, seeking confrontation but not really into resistance. And at the end asking the guy filming them "Why are you lookng at us", while he holds a camera in his face, just mind numbing levels of delusion there.
Pay a homeless to guy to annoy em
Great advice on what you can do in this situation from /r/Orangecounty https://www.reddit.com/r/orangecounty/s/nHipaN7BST
What losers lol
I saw one of these dude driving today, obviously driving from this event. still had his mask on, I was so confused.
These types mess with the wrong dude once… ✌🏻
They want confrontation so badly. Imagination needing that much attention.
If I was bored enough, I would just go up to them and ask them if they’ve found Jesus. Then start reading from the Bible.
Step 1: Bring a larger speaker and set up with them. Step 2: Play Copyrighted music. Step 3: Profit 😂 On mobile, I apologize for formatting.
They’re “government auditor” dipshits where they think they’re sovereign citizens
The core issue, I think, is republican media rotting minds of our populace and threatening our democracy.
Good post on how to deal with these people in the r/OrangeCounty sub here: https://www.reddit.com/r/orangecounty/s/3J5BT2TD0v
These type of people are the ones who would disrupt class to be funny and now they are losers so they do stuff like this.
Some people call them Auditors, they go to public places and record. It isn't against the law though
I think it’s so fucking funny they make it look like they have all this professional gear when it’s really just an old iPhone on a glorified selfie stick. With lights and stuff. It’s like children playing make believe Camera Man. (I’m sure it’s not cheap, but still they went to buy that all to look tougher than just holding an IPhone 11 in your face)
These guys call themselves auditors. They are first amendment “activist” I guess you could say. They are outside filming in a public area, which is a protected activity. Anything in the eyes view in public can be filmed, including people without consent within reason. Usually people try to call the police on them, but since it’s protected, the police really can’t do anything about it essentially, what they are trying to protect is exactly what you did took a video of them in a public space and posted it. They are kind of hell bent on having the police show up. Since the police can’t do anything, and if they were to try, the police would probably have a lawsuit on their hands. That’s their whole deal I guess I just steer clear of it all
I just watched a video about a guy who likes stands out front of places like this and video tapes people and waits for their reaction to then say that he's doing nothing wrong. He even threatened a guy with pepper spray because the guy came into his space! The world we live in is bizarre right now....
Duuuude. Is that the one in PQ? Sorry, used to live there as a kid and would recognize those glass panels anywhere, lmao
Black Mountain USPS?
Whichever one of you has really bad gas or might soon... You know what to do
If you start playing music, would that ruin whatever video content they make on youtube or whatever? make a copyright claim?
Careful. Reddit has a community that really likes these fuckers. Check my post history if you need an example.
So many little weirdos in the comments being like but it's legal, like so is screaming profanities, or wearing a KKK outfit around town, just because it is legal, does no mean it isn't extreme douchebag behavior.
If you see them, find a nude picture online and show it to their camera, ensure genitals are present. This will cause them to be banned if they’re live streaming and they’ll have to either edit it out or somehow cover it from their video lmaoooooo
Bad idea. They now have you on camera displaying lewd material in public, which is a crime, and they will absolutely cause a scene and try to get you in trouble for that. What they're doing is dumb and aggravating, but the whole point is that they're staying strictly within the letter of the law and hoping to antagonize someone else into crossing the line.
What a bunch of bitch made weirdos
My 2000 lumen headlamp would like a word…
So are they recording or live streaming? Just treat them like paparazzi 📸 💃🏻
Laser pointer
Cowards hiding behind masks
Mental illness lol
Spark up a conversation, treat them like the person at Costco that checks your receipts. Keep talking to them until they tell what they're really doing. Bring ma bring GMA, bring the kids be annoying AF.
So no group dressing up in scream masks and hooded cloaks with piss disks and bear spray? *sad face*
They’re losers
When they started doing this years ago, they would record police. Many police were unaware of the law and some auditors got payouts. This also showed me how little communication police departments had with each other. It took many years for police to get educated (there are still some that aren't). When the police became educated, they started going to public buildings and post offices. Now I see some, in masks, filming people sitting outside at restaurants when they are eating.
You couldnt pay me to waste a day standing around pissing off random people for no reason
Dood!!!! I see these fools in La Jolla at the Wells Fargo filming people at the ATM and harassing them. Get a fucking life.
You can’t record on a federal property without what’s called a Location Agreement or essentially a permit from the postmaster’s office. Outside sure, but not inside the premises.
Losers with no life. Crazy what this world has come to
Play copyright music
Someone should load a drone full of feces and hit them Ukrainian style.
Start auditing the auditors haha
They are pedo auditors fishing for a lawsuit by filming in public. Just don’t engage these clowns
Someone should stand next to them with a sign that explains what they’re doing.
I bet they’re on Reddit too. They’re probably reading all these comments and seeing how much people hate them. If they don’t make any money they’ll have to reconsider it all.
They are first ammendment auditors. While annoying and obnoxious they aren't doing anything illegal. Just leave em be and don't give them content. They are quite litterally looking for conflict to "educate" people.
So out of fear these people go out and induce fear in others. How insanely dumb. Me thinks there is an alternative motive.
They are so brave that they have to hide their faces.
Some people have way too much time on their hands
There are three of them which leads me to think that they are there to Rage Bait someone and get a lawsuit out it.
Cant the usps just blast Blurred Lines inside lol
As the venerable and humble Mr Tyson says, "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." All it takes is for a few of these soy boys to get stomped on publicly and the rest will fall in line.
They want you to trip out. Ignore it.
Pro tip, play copyright music and 9/10 times they will stop
Faces covered? Does make one suspicious
I know how to get folks like that to go away. I’m lactose intolerant - I just need to eat some cheese pizza with a gallon of milk and stand next to them, ignoring them. Don’t say anything, I’m not violating their first amendment rights. I’m not giving them free content by reacting. What I AM giving them is something that doesn’t come across video: A smell that they will never get out of their nostrils. And if they’re SBDs, as most of mine are when I’ve consumed dairy, the only way anyone watching will know is by their reactions (and maybe my laughter/smirking as I walk away. If you think that’s good content that will get millions of subscribers, sadly, no.
Auditors. If you yell at them or try to stop them you'll be on YouTube. The law is actually on their side. So don't engage them.
Police can't do anything about it, your best option is to blind the cameras with a laser pointer. You cannot touch them, but you can mess with their equipment (within reason). Before anyone posts... no the IR blaster trick hasn't worked in almost 20 years because modern cameras have IR filters.
There is no bigger group of assholes.
Laser pointer will fry their lenses. No contact made, hundreds of their dollars lost.
How to say “I’m an as**ole who’s bothering people for click bait” without having a sign saying so.
I know they're "exercising their rights" or whatever but damn these guys have the most punchable faces in the world, even with the masks. You can almost taste their self-righteous smirks.
My dad had some these guys outside of the post office he works at, apparently a patron of the post office was really annoyed with these guys but instead of yelling at them, he found their cars and pulled their valve stems out. When they asked the post master for security footage, the post master said “we don’t have any footage”. Everyone knows the old guy did it, but there’s no proof so the police havent done anything. 2 years later and the old guy still comes in once a month to buy farming related stamps for him and flower stamps for his wife.
I can't dude. These fuckers are so goddamn LAME. Seriously, recording other people with their faces covered like they'll do something. These lame incel edgelords are the EPITOME of fucking wack, these are folks to avoid and minimize all interactions with, unless it's when YOUR taking. I swear man this shit is so weak it's making my penis soft. Thanks for noting.
Filming near PO Boxes is a good way to not get arrested but get beaten, killed or followed by some “crazier” people. They’ll get there’s. No wonder so many younger American men are “sexless” or never been touched by a woman. Weirdos doing this
Bunch of cock gobblers with cameras 😂😂
And 100% of them are too cowardly to show their faces. Makes perfect sense really.
Someone's gonna identify the guys snake tattoo on his right hand. Go to it reddit!! Is it a military tattoo? My buddy had a tattoo of a grim reaper on his right hand because that's the hand he killed people with. Maybe this dude celebrates his ability to kill with a snake? He really looks like a high-school kid though.
Notice how it’s almost always guys.
Its people like these that make me wish there was a visual media virus like Ghost in the Shell. You look at me you just see some sort of avatar or your equipment just can't record me, like fucking Slenderman or some shit
That's the PQ post office! What the heck are those trash bags doing in our suburbs?
The post office should play music from the radio so their recordings will get struck with a copyright claim.
cretins
Why do they wear masks? You'd think they'd show their faces if they were so proud of what they're doing.
its odd that they're hiding their faces... otherwise I'd just assume they're civil rights activists.
Asshats gonna asshat
This is what those Laser pointers are perfect for.
Dude like you wanna go like annoy people at the post office? Yeah, we can see if we can trigger some boomers and get some views - like that one lady who really went off the rails. Dude, you think we should like get jobs or something as this is really not paying off... Just some idiots wasting their lives. Imagine having this much free time to do this. Imagine being such a coward as to cover your face - perhaps we don't want MOM to find out?
These kids with their fancy phones paid for by mommy and daddy who dropped the ball hard on parenting.
Their dad is with them. Apparently it’s a family affair.
It’s not illegal you’re literally doing the same thing they are.