[V:tM] "We're living in the age of cellphone cameras. Fuckups ain't tolerated!"

So said Smiling Jack in 2004's Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines, and that was at a time when feature phones with tiny, shitty, sub-SDTV cameras were the norm, back when you had to go to some trouble to actually extract video you shot on it. Right now you probably have a camera capable of shooting HD resolutions in your pocket or hand, and millions of people, people in every city, suburb, and town are using them, constantly.

The Masquerade is damned near impossible to suspend belief for at this point; we are under too much surveillance, by governments, corporations, and even accidentally by being around other people who are constantly taking photos and videos. Three hundred hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. It is almost impossible to be around other people- particularly for social predators like vampires, who rely on blending in as human beings- to remain isolated enough that one won't show up in passing videos and photos, and vampires being vampires, some of what gets filmed, deliberately or accidentally, is going to be Masquerade-violating.

So how do you maintain a Masquerade in a world where a vampire is almost certainly getting caught on video every week, if not every night? How do you maintain the Masquerade when that's happening and the vampire getting caught on video probably hasn't any idea he's been filmed? Elders have always embraced childer for their ability to cope with modern human society and technology, but the rate of change has accelerated so severely that a newly-minted vampire will be hopelessly out of date within twenty years, maybe less, and the changes, from the perspective of the elders, are happening so rapidly that they've got to be running into an "indistinguishable from magic" problem where they've got no way of knowing whether or not what their childer are telling them about technology bears any relevance to reality. How must the Camarilla change to adapt to this reality? How can it?