Its the selfishness of people playing loud ass tiktoks, looping AGAIN and AGAIN, on public transport. Like use some fucking headphones. You can even get shitty wired earphones for like 3 quid on amazon or at a corner shop.

At my last doc's appointment, some 900 year old Lady was blairing AI Facebook reels at max volume in a crowded waiting room.

I genuinely believe in most cases its a clear indication of genuine cognitive dysfunction.

I'm extremely annoyed when people do anything.

Japan has ruined me for going anywhere in public elsewhere. If someone is playing anything that others can hear, they will get told off. I love the silence. (This unfortunately does not apply inside store like don kihote that have 37 different things blaring music at once and I can't enter without noise-canceling headphones).

It's infuriating and I don't understand how anyone is ok with doing it.

If I'm walking back from the pub I'll play something out loud and audio book etc.

If I start approaching people i turn it off until I'm out of their earshot again.

In an enclosed space public transport etc i think we should be allowed to smash their devices

From time to time I see people taking video calls on speaker in public (in enclosed spaces where everyone else can hear); in situations like this I'm always tempted to pop into the frame and say "HELLO!" since apparently the call is public, not private, and that maybe they'll get a hint. I've never actually done it since I have the common decency, but others, sadly, just don't seem to take social cues.

Yes. Inconsiderate & selfish people.

I was just getting annoyed at my husband for exactly this and your post was literally the next one in my feed. Felt like kismet.

Anyway YES it drives me crazy. He seems to love watching videos on his phone. I don’t get it at all.

I can imagine how someone who is still a good person overall might commit certain serious crimes. But the petty stuff like this or littering immediately places whoever does it in the "person I detest" category in a way that, say, robbing a bank would not. The thought of having all that money is a genuine temptation, and maybe the robber needs it for something important. Meanwhile playing audio in a subway car is just completely unjustifiable.

Me speaking into my phone: "No way! There's an asshole playing videos with the volume all the way up sitting next to you too? What are the odds?"

Yes. The absolute worst is in the lobby at a doctor’s office. It’s quiet and then filled with whatever video stream they decide to play.

I’ve started carrying my headphones with me to drown out those situations, especially if I know it’s going to be a long wait.

Very much, yes. It’s so disrespectful to other people.

It's best to retaliate by getting one of those live echo/looper apps to play their obnoxious noise right back at them. Extra fun when others join in.

I can't fuckin stand it, but I get its an irrational anger, and so suppress my urge to do irrational things

Yes, It's a sign of people that do not think of others and that bothers me a lot.

Me and my friends used to play frisbee golf. I started hating being associated with them about the time they started blasting their music on the course. I don't like to attract attention, ever. Id rather blend in the background. So I just make up an excuse when envited. I'd rather play alone anyway.

Personally I like hearing the birds or catching some wildlife doing their thing.

Yes. In the rest room is the worse.

my wife does this and it triggers the fuck out of me. I get so stressed out by it I just go somewhere I can't hear it anymore and just disappear for hours.

choose your battles.

For me it’s the generally underpowered, terrible speaker paired with the worst quality audio you could imagine (128 kbps MP3 in 2025?).

Yes, but I honestly don't entirely understand why it bothers me so much. I think it's the compressed and high-frequency noise aspect of it. Like if someone just had white noise blasting out of a tiny phone speaker, there would be no discussion that it's intended to annoy.

It is attention seeking behavior. Don’t feed it.

Oh yes, I hate disrespectful people so much.

I firmly believe we should test those people who don't put their carts back, and who play tik tok on loudspeaker and banish them to a remote island. We would have a utopia overnight.

/s (or is it...)

There is evidence suggesting second hand brainrot exists in the same kind of way as second hand smoking, the presence of the bad thing is a problem for all in the vicinity.

Would never happen in Japan or Korea.

Same with loud exhausts on cars and motorbikes, I hate those people

Yes. Hate it. And exactly at this moment there are two of them going off.

It can completely ruin my mood. External noise doesn't both me too much, if it doesn't include actual words. Anything with words disrupts my concentration badly. It keeps me from reading. It even makes it hard for me to follow a train of thought. It feels almost like a physical assault, to me.

I'm amazed that there aren't frequent murders over this.

It's extremely annoying. Invest in a good pair of noise cancelling headphones.

Yeah it makes me want to take their phone and crush it and scream at them. :)

Ive been thinking about this. Its always other people, at work or other places where we are forced to be, who makes life full of frustrations. And its not like we can leave. We have to be in those places. I think thats what makes us so frustrated.

I also think its normal to be angry and frustrated by that. I just cant imagine being totally fine with it and feeling content and happy around that behavior. Maybe if I was a teenager.

I drive for Uber, so... YEAH, I GUESS YOU COULD SAY THAT. Instant 3 star rating, unless you're nice.

And honestly, most people really are, so it generally takes the fire out of the proceedings, unfortunately.

In the past Apple included earpods with their phones, and this was a relatively small problem, but ever since they and other manufacturers stopped doing that, this behavior has exploded.

It is stupid, the people are getting a worse experience of the video while disturbing others.

The worst offenders are not the video people, but the speakerphone callers.

This annoys me even more than the speaker video people, simply because there is zero excuse. The phone has everything needed to hold it to your ear and talk without the speaker.

Of course, it's being a selfish asshole without consideration of your surrounding.

One of the many reasons I need anc headphones in public transport and which benefits me using a car (though I don't want it).

Yes

Annoys

"How much are headphones?" Is my immediate thought, then fuck phones don't have a headphone jack anymore

This happened to me last night. I was wasted out of my mind for New Year's, so I stopped at a convenience store that was open at 4 am. The lady next to me was playing some god-awful video on her loudspeaker while I was trying to slurp down my ramen noodles and hold my head together.

How can anyone be this inconsiderate and not get the hint when the other person makes a grand gesture to put on their headphones?

They do it on purpose just to irritate other people. People have no respect nowadays.

I try not to let it annoy me and use it as an opportunity to meditate

I'm doing whatever i want in my home, deal with it :)