Calling them Glassholes seems to have lost its effect.

2010: I take a video of my friends
2026: a random guy takes a video of my friends

This is a two-panel comparative meme. The top panel is labeled 2010, showing a person holding up a smartphone to openly record a video of their own group of friends socializing together. The bottom panel is labeled 2026, showing a close-up of a stranger wearing camera-equipped smart glasses, implying that these discrete wearable devices are recording the first person's friends without their awareness or explicit consent. The joke highlights how public attitudes towards ubiquitous video recording have shifted over time, with once heavily criticized unconsented public recording now normalized as wearable tech becomes mainstream.

This meme was originally posted to the Reddit r/Meme subreddit. It references the early 2010s pejorative term 'glasshole', which was used to criticize wearers of the first generation Google Glass who recorded other people in public spaces without permission. The meme comments on how this once widely condemned behavior has become more accepted as smart glasses and wearable recording technology have become more common.