Please Stop Filming Strangers

Head to http://squarespace.com/minale to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or a domain! ➤ BOOK CLUB / NEWSLETTER https://highbrowclub.org/ https://minale.substack.com/ ➤ PRODUCTION written by Mina Le and Am Wyckoff edited by Charlee Reiff ➤ SOCIALS Instagram: http://instagram.com/gremlita TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gremlita Letterboxd: http://boxd.it/7YgX ➤ CONTACT Business email: team.minale@iala.com ➤ SOURCES Panopticon print created by Adam Simpson for the New York Times Review of Books. https://www.theverge.com/internet-culture/775740/anonymity-privacy-filming-viral-tiktok Foucault, Michel, Discipline and Punish, “Panopticism,” 1975, pp. 201. https://www.documentary.org/feature/chips-ol-doc-spawn-candid-camera Kavka, Misha. "1 Before Reality TV: From Candid Camera to Family Docs". Reality TV, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012, pp. 13-45. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748637249-003 https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/shows/candid-camera?chapter=5&clip=94634 Engle, Harrison, Funt, Allen. “HIDDEN CAMERAS AND HUMAN BEHAVIOUR: An Interview with Allen Funt.” Film Comment, vol. 3, no. 4, 1965, pp. 43. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43754368. Funt, Allen. Eavesdropper at Large: Adventures in Human Nature with "Candid Mike" and "Candid Camera" (1952) https://archive.org/details/eavesdropperatla00funt/mode/1up Engle, Harrison, Funt, Allen. “HIDDEN CAMERAS AND HUMAN BEHAVIOUR,” http://www.jstor.org/stable/43754368, 44. Nadis, Fred. "Citizen Funt: Surveillance as Cold War Entertainment,” 18. https://archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/1960-12-10/flipbook/088/, Location 088. https://archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/1960-12-10/flipbook/090/ , 090. https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/ashton-kutchers-terrifying-prank-tv-show-before-punkd-ended-in-a-20-million-lawsuit.html/ https://lasvegassun.com/news/2004/feb/04/vegasbeat----timothy-mcdarrah-harassment-lawsuit-m/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2042466.stm https://www.npr.org/2023/05/14/1176062339/how-jury-duty-follows-a-long-legacy-of-prank-shows https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/celebrity-culture-sinks-to-new-low-with-punkd/article1341151/ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/critics-notebook/why-did-we-love-to-catch-a-predator https://www.thecut.com/article/please-stop-filming-your-workout-classes-gym-influencers.html https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/clarissajanlim/viral-tiktok-consent-panopticontent https://www.candidcamera.com/faq https://nypost.com/2025/09/17/us-news/elizabeth-eats-nyc-defends-recording-servers-with-meta-glasses/ https://www.vox.com/culture/24158534/filming-strangers-tiktok-joey-swoll https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/fall-2018-culture-shift/smile-youre-on-candid-camera-phone/ https://www.instagram.com/camera_duels/?hl=en https://www.scoutmag.ph/26998/talked-cole-sprouse-second-instagram-account/ Mann, Steve, Nolan, Jason, Wellman, Barry. “Sousveillance: Inventing and Using Wearable Computing Devices for Data Collection in Surveillance Environments.” Vol. 1 No. 3 (2003): Foucault and Panopticism Revisited, 2002, pp. 333. https://www.npr.org/2021/09/21/1039236256/george-holliday-who-shot-the-video-of-officers-beating-rodney-king-has-died https://monoskop.org/images/4/43/Foucault_Michel_Discipline_and_Punish_The_Birth_of_the_Prison_1977_1995.pdf 0:00 - introduction 6:26 - smile you're on camera 13:30 - you just got punk'd 18:21 - the tiktok machine 33:18 - conclusion