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Reddit amplifies strong reactions. That’s what it does. If you search “smart glasses creepy,” you’ll obviously find posts calling them creepy. If you search “Ray-Ban Meta awesome” or “Ray-Ban Meta useful,” you’ll find plenty of people praising them for convenience, accessibility, hands-free video, music, calls, and travel use. Online forums skew toward outrage and hot takes — that’s not the same thing as broad societal consensus.

The product we’re talking about — Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses — is selling well, being reviewed positively by major tech outlets, and being used by regular people for normal, boring reasons. That matters more to me than emotionally charged thread titles.

You can curate a list of links calling anything creepy:

AirTags were called stalking tools.
Drones were called spy machines.
GoPros were called invasive.
Early camera phones were labeled pervert devices.

Unless you still agree with those early opinions?

Every time, early adopters got side-eyed. Every time, a vocal online minority framed the tech in worst-case terms. And every time, usage normalized once people realized most owners weren’t villains.

There are also counterarguments all over Reddit and elsewhere, with users pointing out the LED indicator, people explaining they use them for biking, walking, or accessibility, people preferring them over pulling out a phone constantly, and users saying they feel less awkward recording because the device signals clearly when it’s active.

You’re presenting Reddit discomfort as proof of inherent wrongdoing. That’s just social friction around new tech. Social friction doesn’t equal ethical collapse.

If someone personally doesn’t want to interact with a person wearing smart glasses, that’s their choice. But that’s a social preference — not a moral verdict.

The internet will always have threads calling something creepy. That alone doesn’t make the technology illegitimate, and it doesn’t make every person wearing it suspicious by default.