People watching mobile phone videos in public

I just find it totally unacceptable, I can be sitting somewhere quietly and all of a sudden, someone is watching a video on their phone with the sound on very loud. They seem totally oblivious to their surroundings or just don’t care.

Most of the time it’s just inane influencers selling tat or one video after another with loud background music. I had an incident recently where someone had finished watching the video and left the phone playing away on their table.  
I just find it totally overwhelming and makes it impossible to concentrate on anything. 
I occasionally listen to YouTube, I wear headphones, it’s quite easy.

Is it just me and I’m being overly sensitive?

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  • It's infuriating. The worst part is you can now get really good wired headphones(earbuds) at stores like B and M and Home Bargains, unlike 15 years ago, when even one for £8 could be hit or miss with a horrible tinny reverb, which brings me to the conclusion anyone who does this is an *expletive*.

    The worst one was some *expletive* who was watching TikToks full blast while I was waiting in an A and E at 3am. If someone is truly watching something fine (like a documentary or podcast), but nothing is worse than having a head injury when some muppets phone is going from *soft girl voice* "Here is how you can find Pichu in Legends Arceus" to *loud male voice* "HEY BRO LETS TRY A SOCIAL EXPERIMENT WHERE I URINATE ON A STREET LOL".

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  • It's infuriating. The worst part is you can now get really good wired headphones(earbuds) at stores like B and M and Home Bargains, unlike 15 years ago, when even one for £8 could be hit or miss with a horrible tinny reverb, which brings me to the conclusion anyone who does this is an *expletive*.

    The worst one was some *expletive* who was watching TikToks full blast while I was waiting in an A and E at 3am. If someone is truly watching something fine (like a documentary or podcast), but nothing is worse than having a head injury when some muppets phone is going from *soft girl voice* "Here is how you can find Pichu in Legends Arceus" to *loud male voice* "HEY BRO LETS TRY A SOCIAL EXPERIMENT WHERE I URINATE ON A STREET LOL".

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