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Would love to see this picture with the phones and cameras removed:

https://artsmetaphor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Mona-Lis...

This is depressing. What's the point of taking another smartphone picture of the Mona Lisa. So they can go home and show or post on some "social" website another smartphone pic of the Mona Lisa? I guess I just don't get it.

That's exactly the point.

It's called humble-brag.

Now that's a depressing assumption, that people who want to share their neat experience is just humble-bragging.

Another one of the same vein I've seen circulated:

https://petapixel.com/2013/03/14/a-starry-sea-of-cameras-at-...

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