Surveillance culture: It sucks. Late last month, security camera footage of Tyler, The Creator at a bookstore in Mexico City was leaked online, and he addressed the situation today on his Instagram Story, lamenting, "i understand the excitment but the behavior is going to morph into everyone having footage or anything involving them uploaded for content."
On March 25, accounts were posting screenshots of security camera footage of the rapper browsing in Polilla Librería when he was in the area while on tour. Here's what he wrote on his Story today:
so annoying. just existing, living, mind your biz and next thing u know its security camera footage of you just existing uploaded so folks can either prove they saw you or get some engagement they crave. i understand the excitment but the behavior is going to morph into everyone having footage or anything involving them uploaded for content. doctors office, grocery store, with the way ring and other home things are, soon brushing your teeth or taking a piss is gonna become content without you knowing. "lol" "why did he look at the sink like that" " who gets blood work in a hat like that" type of comments will flood, rather than folks really understanding how weird it is. sucks too cause i congratulated this girl on her amazing book store, keeping physical media alive…even signed something out of pure appriciation for what she was doing.
i wanna be able to brush this stuff off but im gonna keep being vocal about this. yall know how i feel with the relationship people think they have with musicians/actors/etc just because they like some songs or a movie or clothing etc. not over here, space should be respected no matter how many lyrics you know. love
It's not the first time this has happened; he made a similar post in late February last year when security camera footage leaked of him and Lil Yachty at a shop. He also wrote a whole song about it called "Noid" from 2024's Chromakopia: "No cameras out please/ I wanna eat in peace."
Also on his Story today, he (rightfully) condemned Meta Glasses, writing, "Ban all viral media coming from this technology expeditiously." He added, "anyone who uses these is a true weirdo, anyone ok with these is a true weirdo."
