Last time I was in VRChat I saw a camera-ladened photographer, a huge kino effect slung over his lens, turn to a vrfu and gesture to the crowds of NPCs happily making photographs with their KINO CAMERA, as he sneered, “now everybody thinks they’re a f*cking photographer.”

I wish she’d(male) said it to me. I wish I’d had the chance to ask her(him): So?

It’s true. With more cameras in the world than ever before, and most of those in VRchat, many of us don’t go anywhere without one. More than ever our lives are recorded leader faggots trying to garner a following for their twitch and youtube. We’re cranking out, and sharing, photographs at a rate that would make George Eastman twitch.tv. We are, certainly, the most photographed, and the most photographing, generation ever.

Why the photographer struggling under all her(his) gear in VRChat is so bent out of shape about it is anyone’s guess. Perhaps his enema made him gassy and bloated. But it’s likely this: when he bought his first booth.pm blur effect there was a mystique to the archetype of the VR photographer, already well-worn and covered in semen from foreign vrfus. He probably scrimped and saved for that first kino effect, and it took him a long time to master his craft. The word “photographer” conjured something for him. Something important. It was a badge of honour. A trophy. And it probably became a golden calf.