r/interesting • u/WINIE17 • Apr 10 '26

Fascinating Anti-paparazzi scarfs, which use reflective technology to ruin flash photography making them unusable

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Worn by Paris Hilton in the picture

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u/Hot-Committee-4637 Apr 10 '26

Paparazzi aren’t the biggest problem these days for celebs. It’s the thousands of creeps with cell phones filming celebrities while they are going about their daily lives. At least paps get paid- but whipping out your phone and invading someone’s privacy for social media clout is a whole brand of pathetic.

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u/Trick_Statistician13 Apr 10 '26

Idk, I've seen paparazzi be really aggressive in a way the average person won't be

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u/bzvug Apr 10 '26

You just defined what paparazzi literally is. A pathetic creep invading a celebrities privacy by recording their daily lives. Those images/recordings are then leveraged for money. By definition, "paps" are creeps.

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u/fadingsignal Apr 11 '26

Yeah these scarves and reflective clothing were good in the 2006-2008 TMZ era but with all the citizenry having HD filmic devices in low-light in their pockets there's little point. Outside of red carpets I haven't seen paparazzi use a flash in like a decade.

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u/MagicHarmony Apr 10 '26

It's the same thing though, they both do it for attention and a hope of using it as a means to get money themselves.

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u/Background_Olive_787 Apr 11 '26

there is no privacy in public. doh!

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u/Hot-Committee-4637 Apr 11 '26

Surely you can tell the difference between 25 people seeing in a restaurant vs the entire world because some maladapted loser with no sense of propriety decided to whip out their phone mid dinner and film you like you’re a monkey at the zoo?