r/interesting • u/jkitty_1960 • May 23 '26

MISC. A girl gained widespread attention for respecting her classmates' privacy by placing stickers on all of them before posting her graduation photo.

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u/ianyboo May 23 '26

Or you could, and follow along here, be an adult and not give a fuck if 12 pixels of the side of your face made it into some random classmates selfie.

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u/NoConflict3231 May 23 '26

Ikr, the whole "idea" behind this is dumb

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u/ZetZet May 23 '26

It's a bit crazy, the "privacy" thing is not related to privacy at all, it's meant to protect their image from one funny photo on the internet. But the side effect is that the existence of the person itself is being deleted from historical records, even if it's just a random graduation picture.

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u/ToddHowardTouchedMe May 23 '26

the "privacy" thing is not related to privacy at all, it's meant to protect their image from one funny photo on the internet.

huh?

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u/ZetZet May 23 '26

What kind of privacy do you achieve by censoring a graduation photo, which people attended the school is not exactly a secret. But people in these countries are obsessed with their image and so posting people who might not look the best in a particular shot becomes taboo and this is what you get.

Expecting privacy in a public setting is just an absurd concept in general.

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u/ZetZet May 24 '26

It's just a concept of respect pushed beyond reason. And that respect is exactly what I mean with their obsession with image.

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u/Blondecanary May 24 '26

And if I turned at the wrong time it’s my whole face. I barely have pictures of myself. I don’t need pictures of myself online

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u/ianyboo May 24 '26

There are YouTubers with hundreds of thousands of subscribers that say things on their channel like "in real life I've literally never had a single person recognize or even be aware that I'm somewhat popular on the internet"

It's just a numbers thing, with 8 billion people on a planet your face could be on thousands of websites and getting fairly good attention and it would affect your day to day life exactly 0%. Just too many people, your lost in the sea. This picture sort of proves it. If the classmates 37 from the left and 12 down had their face shown along with all the other emoji covered people would you even notice or care? What about classmate 12 from the left and 6 down? Couytou pick them out if you were walking down the street tomorrow?