Collective photo-taking and filming by crowds attending an event in a stadium, concert, new year countdown…etc. They are constantly taking photos/filming to post on social media instead of living the moment.
Human #1: Yo, look at all those idiots holding their phones!!
Human #2: That’s crowd-robotism my friend, get used to it!!
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)