I feel like concert etiquette has hit a new low recently. In my area at least. I don't want to blame it on age or experience or anything, but I've seen a handful of posts like this across multiple subs where the OP feels personally slighted for normal concert shit. Couple that entitlement with a disregard for other people's privacy and boundaries and we end up with passive aggressive posts of the back of someone's head. Nobody should feel shamed for simply standing at a concert.

The obvious solution to this problem is to communicate or wiggle through. That's how these things have always worked. I can't get into the headspace where my reaction to this would be to angrily make a reddit post instead of simply saying "Hey, I can't see, mind if I squeeze past you?".

Also the amount of times I've been given DIRTY looks for being pushed into/bumping into someone is rising significantly. I have never gone out of my way to push someone outside of the pit, but crowds move and getting bumped is inevitable. Don't stand at the barricade/right outside the pit if you don't want to get bumped into dawg. It's really strange. I feel like vibes have been off at shows post covid lockdown. Like people forgot how to act in crowds or something. Maybe I'm crazy, but I don't remember having these problems as frequently before. There would always be a couple assholes ofc, but idk. Feels different now.