Maybe this is a bit different, but there is a trend of being a douchebag to others only to record reaction, because "hey I'm just making a tiktok video man".

It caught me by surprise when a 20 year old struck a conversation with me at a self check out at a store.

"Would you buy this for my girlfriend" and he showed me some flowers he had picked up.

"Sure, they're nice flowers".

Then he started scanning them into my cart. Then scanning all the other stuff he had in his basket. I tried to be nice and told him to go to the next checkout stand with his stuff.

"But you said you would buy it"

He kept making noise and being extra dramatic. I got really pissed and pushed him away. He came back telling the clerks that I was to pay for it. I was boiling red until i saw another kid capturing the whole thing and laughing...

Something similar happened a month ago. This time I was taking the elevator with my son and we saw tree kids in torn clothes.

The elevator was packed. They kept pressing the top floor, forcing everyone to go back up before they get a chance to exit. one was begging for money, while the other was yelling and making it very uncomfortable.

My 3 year old son, a big fan of paw patrol, decided to join in the fun. He pressed the alarm, press the emergency button and started yelling "help! Rescue team, fire fighter, help!" The operator answered immediately, that he is sending help.

The kids freaked out. One of them climbed the elevator to remove a hidden GoPro that was recording the whole thing. They apologized and said it was just for tiktok, before they ran out.

The rest of the riders cheered for my son.

YouTube automatically demonetizes videos with certain phrases, TikTok probably does something similar. So continuously shouting “COVID vaccines don’t work” to the camera until they stop recording could be an option. If they get pissed, tell them that you are just doing a TikTok.

Better yet, start playing copyrighted music so that YouTube will automatically remove the video. (Cops are known to do this to prevent videos of them from being spread online.)

There's only one problem: You have to pick the right song that will actually get the video taken down by YouTube rather than just get the ad revenue sent to the copyright holder. YouTube is filled with videos of cops failing to pick the right song to stop a recording.

I haven't tried this idea, yet, however: it should be possible to use mixdown -> stem AI/ML models to completely remove the "recognizable" part of the song to an algorithm, leaving only the "vocals" portion.

I know experimentally youtube nearly immediately deletes/unlists a few artists' songs, which i suppose one could use to test the theory.