it is the general lack of respect for other folk in general that is the thing, maybe particularly in gym ‘culture’ amongst certain demographics…
as some who records in the gym i have had 2 occasions where someone brought to my attention that they didn’t want to be recorded (once when i was diving in the pool & once on the gym floor, and both times they apparently didn’t understand how cameras work because they were literally on the other side of the pool area in the hot tub & the other guy was actual behind the lens on the other side of the camera
) the overwhelming majority could not care less
just copped my 1st thing of preworkout: