Low effort blurry jokes
Here I’ve linked a good video on “blurry,” low effort skepticism by Bob Gymlan (GOAT). Honestly, it gets exhausting.
In this scenario, if a Bigfoot is spotted, our first instinct as humans in the modern world is fight or flight, and mostly flight if you’re sane. Almost nobody in that situation, unless maybe a combat veteran, is going to immediately reach for their phone.
If it’s far enough away, which seems to be where most photos and videos come from, most people with a modern phone in the woods are automatically going to zoom in to try to get a better picture or video with more detail. But the moment you zoom in, the quality and clarity usually drop. Forgive my lack of photography education, but from my own experience, zooming in lowers quality, and sharing media online lowers it even more. Both of these things can make identification difficult.
Almost nobody wants to get close enough to positively identify one, even if they did, Bigfoot would probably run away anyway.
TLDR: phone cameras are not as good as you think. if you really want to capture bigfoot bring a DSLR.
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