Have you ever been walking down the street and seen someone holding their camera towards themselves and talking? In the past I thought maybe they were having a nice catch up with a family member or recording a message for a friend but that was me just being naive. One day while I was just having a beer with a friend in Chiang Mai someone walked by and was talking to a phone on a selfie-stick and then turned and interrupted us to interview us or something without asking permission first.
My friend is not as polite as I am so he threatened to throw the dude's phone in the nearby canal if he didn't fuck off. I'm sure that ended up online somewhere but my friend is not the kind of person that would care.
I am not like this and I hope you are not as well, but it seems as though everyone and a lot of the tourists in particular, seem to think that their rather mundane and common experience is somehow worthy of live-streaming to the world. Such an encounter between a Chinese man and a Korean who was walking down the street in Pattaya and he "interrupted" the livestream the Korean was doing and well, I suppose they had to fight or something.
Now I gotta say that I am on the side of the Chinese guy here even though he didn't need to provoke the Korean live-streamer. I feel like these content creators who make a nuisance of themselves in public are a bane on society. I can't stand them and feel like they make everywhere that they go worse with their presence.
There are a bunch of people hanging out that probably don't want to be a part of your livesteam yet you are putting them in there anyway. This is a level of selfishness that I cannot relate to.
For me, even when I am so much as just taking a picture of something interesting, I try to make sure that I am not putting other people in the photo while doing it. Maybe I was raised different but it's not cool to take pictures or video of strangers without their permission.
But the awfulness of this situation gets worse from this point forward. As you can see in the above still, they are near a bar and since it is Pattaya, there is a good chance that these are "prozzie bars." When the fight broke out the staff members and some of the patrons of two bars went out in the street perhaps initially to try to break up the fight, but then they just started attacking both of the Asian tourists for I dunno, to blow off some steam perhaps?
Why not attack a stranger for no reason?
When the police arrived they rightfully, didn't know who to punish but after reviewing the cctv and seeing that nobody was seriously hurt, they decided to punish the two bars that had staff or guests get involved in beating a stranger by forcing both bars to close for the day. I suppose that seems fair.
There have been some stories about police stopping live streamers and charging them with "filming others without permission" and I didn't even know that was a law in Thailand. If it is, I am glad that is the case and would love to see a crackdown on stupid live-streamers getting in the way and being a general nuisance everywhere that they go.
This level of self-service is perhaps part of the new generation that I simply cannot get behind. Do we really need every little thing to be documented and put online for the world to see? Get a real job!