Someone keeps filming me in the background of his workout videos

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There's this college-aged kid at my gym who seems to always end up working out in the equipment right around where i am and sets up a full tripod and starts filming "himself." But there's always myself or others in the background, and every room is full of mirrors so if there is another person in the room, its going to capture them.

He does this during the gym rush hour from like 4:30pm-6pm. So a super inconvenient time to try to film unless your objective is to capture background folks.

He doesn't just take a quick selfie or Snapchat. I get that, I have no problem with that. Bro has a whole studio in his bag. Full size tripod, whole set up, takes a good while to set it up and set up his camera.

Not only is it super inconsiderate of everyone he's capturing in the background, its also super inconsiderate of everyone's time as he uses the equipment area more as a studio and does multiple "takes."

Its new behavior he just started doing recently. Not sure if hes a new member or if I didn't notice him until the tripod came out.

Its also not the gym for it. There are no other content creators there.

No one is dressed up, we're all there to get sweaty and thats it. No pretty lights, no make up, no flexing for the vids, etc. Just people minding their business working out.

Been going there for years and he's the only person I've seen do this. Its a smaller midwest gym, mostly older people utilizing the silver sneakers program or families with kids.

Theres also a pool there and kids running around in bathing suits so theres concerns there as well.

I've complained to management twice when he set it up in such a way he was going to get me doing very easily exploited workouts like squats. They said they'd talk to him but he's still there doing it.

Do I just switch gyms? Leave a bad review?

I did try to talk to the kid once but he had headphones in and straight up ignored me. There was no way he didn't see / hear me but he definitely pretended he didn't.