TikTokkers filming on a nudist beach in Cornwall and trying to kick a goose in a London park are among the latest social influencers to have caused outrage.
The two-man film crew who invaded the privacy of Pedn Vounder were also filmed flying a drone over the naturist beach after being told to stop vlogging.
But a young woman promoting the seafront at Whitby came unstuck when her blogging stunt backfired and a seagull went to the toilet on her head midway through filming.
The videos are the latest in a slew of antics by social media wannabes at some of Britain’s most prized getaways that have left locals enraged. Earlier this month revealed how locals near beauty spots were complaining about the impact of tourists with photos and video showing piles of rubbish left behind and fights breaking out over issues like parking and queueing.
Now, bestselling children’s author GP Taylor, who lives in Whitby, said social influencers should be banned from the Yorkshire coast.
The furious local slammed ‘talentless scumbags’ who are ‘completely vacuous and promote a life-style that is unreal.’
The writer added: ‘They attract the wrong sort of person – drunks who vomit in the street and think they can behave how they want. I was in London and saw a social influencer chasing the geese in St James’ Park. His mates were taking videos thinking he was highly amusing he was running around trying to kick a baby goose.’
Cameras have also been descending on Pedn Vounder after footage of the nudist beach was posted on YouTube by a number of influencers.
Although the beach is highly regarded as a gem of the Cornish coast anyway, influencers have been playing on its links to the naturist community.
Naked people are not photographed but one camera man remarks: ‘There are naked people over there which is why I am pointing the camera the other way.
I another video, by Yorkshire couple Aaron and Em, the man films himself walking along the beach chanting: ‘D***s D***s Everywhere Little One Here Little One There.’
One of the vloggers is caught filming on a nudist beach in Cornwall, chanting ‘d***s, d***s everywhere’
The two-man film crew who invaded the privacy of Pedn Vounder were also filmed flying a drone over the naturist beach after being told to stop vlogging.
Later they appear further up the beach, saying: ‘We were just told off for filming at the nudist beach so we are not going to film any more except in the water.’
Yet in a subsequent video they are seen flying a drone over the beach and joking about the nudists being already out.
In another video, by Yorkshire couple Aaron and Em, the man films himself walking along the beach chanting: ‘D***s D***s Everywhere Little One Here Little One There.’
He is then seeing blowing up a paddle board leering ‘Trying to get it big and hard on a nudist beach’
Bestselling children’s author GP Taylor witnessed the incident where the selfie taker was dive bombed by the gull. He said: ‘She was blocking the traffic and pedestrians taking a picture of herself with Whitby as a backdrop.
‘Just as she was doing it in a white plastic mac a seagull s*** on her. Best thing that ever happened.
‘Social media Influencers are talentless scumbags. No one should follow them because they are completely vacuous and promote a life-style that is unreal.
‘All they do is set up shots which are not real and lie into their cameras. Whitby is beautiful on its own and does not need them.
‘They attract the wrong sort of person – drunks who vomit in the street and think they can behave how they want.
‘I was in London and saw a social influencer chasing the geese in St James’ Park. His mates were taking videos thinking he was highly amusing he was running around trying to kick a baby goose.
‘I told him if I caught him what I would do with the goose. We also have a problem with influencers during Whitby Goth Week.
‘A lot of the Goth ladies are dressed in excitable clothing and the influencers get people to come and Goth Watch.
‘It is not right. They should be able to dress how their want without people coming here to perv on them. Influencers do the Yorkshire Coast no good at all and should be discouraged from coming.’
Many in the tourist industry believe social influencers gained a strong foothold in the Staycation market during Covid.
Vloggers filming on the nudists beaches have provoked outrage on social media
Pictured is a grab from Stamp Trampers during their trip to the nudist beach in Cornwall
Their blogging was blamed for attracting the wrong sort of crowd to traditional family resorts, leading to litter and anti-social behaviour problems.
Patrick Holdsworth, guiding light of the the community further up the coast in Robin Hood’s Bay, said: ‘We are lucky that we have never attracted that sort of teenage market.
‘So we have not really had that sort of problem with influencers. We tend to attract more walkers and that sort of visitor.’
Unsavoury scenes see influencers seemingly disrespecting monuments – including a woman who ran away from security and touched the stones at Stonehenge.
Other influencers filmed themselves signing their social media handles on beaches and climbing on top of an abandoned tank.
One video showed a woman at the Stonehenge monument in Wiltshire touching the 13m-tall standing stones before being ushered away.
Footage has also been shared of a TikToker signing her internet name on a Cornish beach
A TikTokker caught on camera and shared online pictures of the confrontation at Stonehenge
A TikTok user condemned ‘idiot tourists’ plaguing Snowdonia in Wales
People have been seen climbing on the abandoned Ramshaw tank in Derbyshire’s Peak District
The TikTok user who uploaded the footage described her as a ‘bad tourist’, with comments in response including ‘The no touching is to protect the bioculture on the stones’ and ‘Shouldn’t she get a ticket or something?’
Another clip was posted by a TikTokker writing her online profile name Barbiana in the sand at a beach in Cornwall.
She told viewers: ‘I’m a city girl, don’t get me wrong, but look at this – you can’t beat this, it kind of looks like Greece.
‘Of course I had to sign my name out, always, before leaving the beach.’
A third revealed how cars have been clogging up the area around Snowdonia in Wales, while there has also been footage of people clambering on an abandoned tank in Derbyshire’s Peak District countryside.
The Snowdonia video was posted by someone who told viewers: ‘I thought there was some stupid people in the world and then there’s this – three rows of cars, middle row completely locked in.’
And the footage of the Ramshaw tank in the Peak District was shared by the group Derbyshire Young Walkers, who accompanied it with the caption: ‘Has anyone been to all three of these amazing hidden gems?! The Peak District is full of them!’
The two other attractions they recommended were a waterfall beside an aqueduct in Chatsworth, Derbyshire, and the nearby Hidden Druids Caves in Birchover.
Complaints from UK locals come as fed-up residents in the Canary Islands in Spain have also launched protests demanding a crackdown on British holidaymakers – with graffiti appearing on walls saying: ‘Tourists go home.’