In previous Gen whY!? articles, we’ve mentioned our generation’s obsession with taking selfies, and with blacking out every chance we get. This week, we combine these two Gen-Y favorite pastimes to ask one ultimate question: why do we insist on posting drunk photos?
If you go to anyone of your friend’s Facebook photo albums, there’s a very good chance you’re going to find countless photos of them clearly intoxicated. Whether it’s just holding a beer, ripping a shot or the awful double-fisting selfie, we have an obsession with publicly showing off our drinking prowess. It’s like drinking on the weekends has become a three step process; order a shot, pose for a picture, take the shot. Repeat!
I, for one, have no issues with getting drunk on the weekends. Do I think you need to get so bat-sh*t wasted that you wake up with a black-eye and a half-eaten roll of cookie dough next to your pillow every time you go out? No. But I’m all for going out and having a good time with your friends. I’m even cool with posting the occasional picture or two, just not every single time you go out!
Some of the funniest memes online are created from photos of drunk idiots. In a lot of these photos, the drunk person isn’t the only culprit, but the camera man is also to blame. There are typically two types of drunk photos that are snapped: the “hey look at me, I’m drunk and having a good time” photo and the “look at my friend, he’s so sh*tfaced, he pissed himself” photo.
Here’s a great example we posted earlier this week. It’s most likely her fault she got wasted enough to mistake a slice of pizza for a pillow, but it’s not her fault her friends took a photo of it that subsequently went viral. A lot of the times when our friends are wasted and could use our help, instead of assisting them, we video tape them! “OMG look at David, he’s so wasted!! He’s gonna die in the morning when he sees this.” Nope, pretty sure David is about to die right now… way to be a good friend!
Of course I understand the hilarity in occasionally recording or grabbing a quick shot of your friend half naked at 3:00 a.m. taking a piss on the street corner, but don’t post it! It’s one thing to take a video just to rip on your friend while he’s hungover Sunday morning struggling to update his fantasy football roster, but it’s another thing to take the footage and throw it up on your Twitterwith the hashtag #YOLO. Side note: Is it ironic that the people who say the phrase “YOLO” are often the people you kind of want…to die? Prove it!
I just don’t understand why we can’t enjoy our lives without constantly uploading every minute of it to social media. But, if we insist on doing so, can’t we just leave out photos from the hours between 12 a.m. – 4 a.m. on the weekends when we’re clearly not in our most photogenic state?
It’s one thing to go out and be known as the drunk asshole of your group of friends (and everyone at the bar); it’s another thing to be known as the drunk asshole all across the internet.
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