‘Auditors’

No, not the soulless automaton’s who work for the likes of KPMG, E&Y etc…..

…..the one’s who profess to be like self acclaimed journalists or social documenters.

We’ve had an encounter this morning at my company which i’m sure was sent by a friend as a wind up, but alas it wasn’t and i’ve had a whole new world opened up to me off the back of it!

We had a visit from a guy walking up and down outside filming the building, filming cars coming in and out, standing right at the entrance making it blatantly obvious to what he was doing which is essentially recording the goings on at the front of my very unexciting building!

I went out and had a chat with him and it was an amazing exchange of words….basically with me having the audacity to ask him what he was doing i was somehow a tyrant and i have no rights in public spaces. The way he spoke and the language he used he was definitely looking for some kind of reaction or to create some drama. So, i offered him to come inside and he could have a brew and one of the lads could give him a tour round if that’s his jam. Of course he declined.

Anyway, he mustn’t have got the reaction he was hoping for so quickly Foxtrot Oscared. I had a look on YT and there are hundreds of these self acclaimed auditors where they go out of their way to antagonise people into calling the Police so they can have a pedantic row about rights and trespassing etc….. trying to get in secure sites and then having a row with security guards and staff. Bizarre!

It’s one of the most peculiar things i’ve ever known. Clearly they get paid of the subscribers or views?

I did say to the chap if he liked engaging in discussing semantics and quoting stats he should give it a go on here! 😀

Anyway, auditors…….another gem the internet has given us!!!!

ps….to any real auditors out there….sorry to call you soul less, but you know what i mean right?! 😉

They really are very special. I’ve seen a couple of their video outside of police stations, military sites etc. Without fail, the person challenging them is polite and professional but, without fail, the guy filming still manages to be a victim.

Yeah, YouTube served a vid up for me a couple of weeks ago randomly, and it was genuinely weird one of this guy turning a regular security guard’s morning into a shit fest, for no reason that I could fathom. I watched a couple more out of interest, and I’ve got to say, I’ve never seen a group of blokes so badly in need of either a blowjob or a hobby in my life.

We had a young auditor* round today, peering in the bins, skip and then windows.

Arrived with a small wheelie suitcase and a wh smiths carrier bag. Dressed head to toe in black, with a mask pulled up to his eyes, hoodie down to his brows. Oh and marigolds on.

Apparently he was skip dipping and the mask is because the bins smell, the marigolds because well, he was skip dipping.

Didn’t look like he’d be able to carry much off in has bag if he found it.

*I guess he just have been an auditor from your description. We thought he was looking for somewhere suitable to stash the content of his wheelie bag until someone else picked it up later.

I long for the day when advertisers realise that their YouTube adverts are worthless as people just zone into the “skip ad” timer, then hopefully these vacuous people will disappear up their own arseholes.

I don’t want to seem too judgy here but they seem to be a bunch of self-righteous attention whores looking for confrontation. There are a lot on YouTube and they get plenty of affirmation in the comments section so I guess they’re getting the attention they seek. File along with those “Sovereign Citizen” muppets and move on.

You can film pretty much what you like in a public place*, happy to leave them to it rather than give them usable footage for their clickbait channel.

*certain secure sites excepted.

Had dealings with them in a previous life, very damaged goods.

@franksinatra – i can’t believe it’s become a thing??

@johnners – not judgey at all. I would say an accurate observation. Yes, there are loads of people in their comments who think they’re doing a public service or something. I like to think i know how the world works, but this has had me questioning myself all day!! 😀

@nickc – spot on. Looking at this chap, i doubt he could give it away so i can only assume this is his outlet!! 😀

we had one at a site that’s partly MOD( in the loosest of terms) despite all our pleading with him and his mate not to wind up the staff in the other units over the road and telling him what the unit I was working in did and like the op making them a cuppa ect they had to push the buttons of the staff working over the road.

Basically waisted everyones time for most of the day and acting like utter plonkers just trying to get a response, turned out his car had no tax and a bold tyre so that went down well. I believe it was live streamed on Facebook or somewhere my mate had nosey at his profile as I don’t do Facebook it was full of Trump conspiracy stuff apparently.

Basically harassing people doing their dull jobs.

The professional attitude of the staff from the other unit was amazing tbh standing all day 50cms from a prat giving it the big don’t tell me the law I can do what l want ect she never said a word to him just stood her ground .

Honestly just have a read of what you’ve written. “Challenging” people who are behaving entirely legally in a public space? How would you react if some busybody “challenged” you for cycling (in a legal and safe manner)? Get over yourselves.

What’s wrong with just leaving them to their (admittedly weird) hobby?

Yep also aware of this through work. Mainly that was my thought too that they’re just harrassing fairly low paid security personnel because if you do it enough times you will get a reaction. Some private security are trained to restrain people etc so there’s always the chance someone will overstep a bit. Is there a bit of grift to it? Like get a reaction, get tackled and then go for some compo?

Saw one on YT where the guy was standing at the main entrance to a haulage site having a melt down at the security for trying to move him on,

Security: There are great big massive trucks turning in and out of here, it’s not safe to stand there you might get splattered

Auditor: mY riGHts!! My Rights!

Secuirty: Yeah whatever, it’s really not safe the trucks are big and you are small and not easily seen.

Auditor: I have RiGHHHTs to stand here. You can’t stop me

Secuity: Whatever.

Police Scotland have published a briefing note about it, interesting to see their take on Auditors.

https://www.scotland.police.uk/spa-media/ngulpset/22-0731-data.pdf

What’s wrong with just leaving them to their (admittedly weird) hobby?

Its probably for the best since I think its less a hobby rather than a money making venture. However I am not sure comparing it to cycling is really applicable. I can see why people wouldnt be to fond of being filmed at random and popping out to ask why.

Way back in the dim and distant past I do remember some cases where people taking photos in public spaces (generally of the architecture) got hassled by over keen security guards. I do wonder if people saw some of those and it mutated into deliberately trying to get hassled by guards.

Yeah, I stumbled upon these very odd types on YT a while back. They are part of the whole Sovereign Citizen/ Magna Carta cluster fudge. There is an overlap into covid denial and a lot of other conspiracy junk too. “15 minute cities” is a new trigger for them.lol

My son said they’ve been to his police station in the past though he has not had feelings dealings with them.

He’s been told just to fulfil his legal obligations to them but other than that just not to engage as they are basically mobile trolls looking for oxygen.

Social media and the impending weaponisation of AI is going to make this (and worse) the norm.

My lad had an interesting interaction with an antivaxxer recently. That person probably had mote important things they should worry about other than lecturing on why he shouldn’t have had his covid jabs/ wore a mask…

Odd and increasingly dangerously odd imo.

The “Auditors” are also grifting of course but are followed by people that had basically self radicalized.

My son said they’ve been to his police station in the past though he has not had feelings with them.

He’s not in the Met then?

No, not the met.

Lol, sorry. Didnt fully read your quote.😂

I’ll go edit it.

For the most part they seem to audit the car park than the action of the people.

Little more than attention seekers.

The Buzz attitude seems to fit here:

Honestly just have a read of what you’ve written. “Challenging” people who are behaving entirely legally in a public space? How would you react if some busybody “challenged” you for cycling (in a legal and safe manner)? Get over yourselves.

What’s wrong with just leaving them to their (admittedly weird) hobby?

When they decide to bother the personnel guarding sensitive sites, they create a burden on the rest of the team to make sure the duty is covered and there’s no lapses in the integrity of the site.

You can behave legally and be an inconsiderate arsehole all at the same time. But if all you’ve ever had to worry about in terms of security is making sure your front door is locked then I wouldn’t expect you to understand the burden and stress these mouthbreathers cause.

They might be behaving entirely legally but they’re also acting like prize arseholes at the same time. Rule 1 applies.

i was somehow a tyrant and i have no rights in public spaces.

The irony is stong if they are walking around in public spaces filming stuff to try and score a reaction on thier YT channel.

This is a new buzz word for me… can we file ‘auditors‘ under the same file as ‘influencers’?

Or maybe they were being super clever and were actually casing the joint out under the guise of being an annoying person with a phone…hiding in plain sight and all that.

To be fair, real life auditors can hardly claim to be any more interesting.

There are two ways to legally upset them.

Play music, so their videos get hammered for copyright. Best to pick some tunes that YouTube refuse to pay royalties on, as their algorithm will usually pretty quickly kill the audio rendering the video pointless (or even more pointless!).

Ask if they are recording for business purposes aka they are monetising the video somewhere, as if they are, then you can refuse permission under GDPR for you to feature in their video.

There was a TikTok account a couple months ago that was exposing various auditors, which I found quite entertaining.
Some of the ones they exposed absolutely spat the dummy out when they were on the receiving end of their medicine, as for some strange reason, they didn’t like it when somebody followed them around with a camera.
There was also the one that turned out to be a company owner, and after being exposed, his company got absolutely hammered. He started sending threatening emails to the exposer, and was even less amused when the exposer simply replied that he had legally promoted a company selling certain items, and any connection was purely coincidental.

What’s the point in being part of a movement to overthrow globalist tyranny and then volunteering to be an…auditor. it’s like being in Starship Troopers or the A Team and wanting to work in the stores.

With The Captain.  While never being antagonistic or buzzing places with drones, I have had the police around several times because of  a “weird hobby”

I’m one of those people who provide the Geograph photos.   Like to think that is less of a waste of space than the “auditors” though.

We had one visit work – a large factory and warehouse across two sites making large industrial engines and generators.

We had a tip off he was in the area so security staff were briefed. Everyone was nice and friendly to him, talked a bit about what we do, let him film outside the perimeter as much as he liked – he didn’t get anything of interest and went off quietly. The resulting YouTube video is pretty dull (I won’t link to it so as not to encourage him with extra views).

Genuinely intrigued as to what the point of it is? What are they trying to prove or disprove? Just seems rather sad.

what the point of it is?

Just to make content for social media I think. Very shallow.

I’ve genuinely never heard of this behaviour. It’s utterly bizarre!

It’s another thing that’s crossed the pond courtesy of our estranged cousins.

I looked into the legalities Of taking photographs in public by watching a really good YouTube video  by a professional photographer who, explained what he can and can’t do but he also showed some security guards getting all upset when he was taking photographs of the outside of the building, this was in central London.
After watching that video  the algorithm started throwing up, other videos, including ones of auditors . I surprised and disappointed by the lack of professionalism, and how  Ill informed, some of the police were.

This  being a prime example,  and from an Inspector who was found guilty of assault.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-63412662

To be fair to the police, security guards and owners/managers of factories the auditors can be class A windup merchants as the more views they get the more money they earn.

If the Police officers can’t deal with them without losing their temper they have been poorly trained/managed or are in the wrong profession. The videos from the US of Police are on another level of bad.

While being fairly conversant with internet goings on, in particular ‘<span style=”font-size: 0.8rem;”>influencers’, this is the first time I’ve heard of ‘auditors’. I have zero time for ‘influencers’, but ‘auditors’, as has been alluded, are clearly a new weird species of QAnon/conspiracist/Right Wing mouth-breather who’ve clearly managed to break out of their parents basement determined to make ordinary people’s lives as miserable and difficult as they possibly can.
It’s highly unlikely that I’m ever going to be in contact with such vermin, retired as I am, but I do like the idea of playing copyrighted music loudly in front of them to get automatic takedown notices. Or just get a nice, loud whistle and blow it repeatedly. </span>

Just had a thought, have a drone flying just above their heads, slightly out of reach, following them with the camera pointing straight at their faces. That ought to wind them up a bit, especially with the constant buzzing of the rotors!

Although there seems to be a fair few of these characters about, i for one have not been lucky enough to find one I can be abusive to.

Maybe one day I will and can point at, laugh, and ridicule to my hearts content 😀

Genuinely intrigued as to what the point of it is? What are they trying to prove or disprove? Just seems rather sad.

I think to make it fun you need to have a general belief that there are all sorts of things going on that are conspiracies of one kind or another. But not in an overt sort of way, just a hint that “I’m out side a so-called vegetable distribution depot in Solihull let’s look at what’s going on”

Not read the whole thread but interesting views that people are saying these are odd people etc

IMO possibly, but it’s more about YouTube being unregulated , and actually the voyeurism of people who watch YT.

Produce content on YT that you can get on the BBC or ITV and no one will watch it. This type of stuff would be banned on national TV or get loads of complaints but on YT the person knows they will get views, comments and likes. They are not unhinged, they just know they can make money and get views

They are not unhinged

I expect the early “auditors” are but as this fad gains attention the grifters take notice and realise it’s a money maker

Either way, these are the kind of people that even the territorial army wouldn’t take

Well, I’ve learnt something today ! The world is full of ‘nobbers’.

I found this phenomenon on YT the other week. I can’t quite get it – it seemed to me to be people going around filming mundane stuff with the angle of “I can be anywhere and film anything I want” and be basically enticing conflict. I can’t believe the fella in the few I watched didn’t get sparked out. A weird way to live your life… clicked on the 3 dots on YT to stop suggesting that kinda bollocks to me and carried on watching pandas falling out of trees…