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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Fair-Cut-4505 on 2024-11-04 04:54:30+00:00.

My boyfriend (25 M) and I (24 F) went to a football game to record content for his social media. He works in sports broadcasting, writing, podcasts, and tik toks. We drove about 3.5-4 hours to get to this game, college game day was there, it was a big game. As he went around interviewing people, I was behind the camera recording… or so I thought. I work with cameras a good amount but usually focus on photography and not videography. We found out while trying to look at the footage after the game that some of the really good and the “best interview he’s ever gotten” had not been recorded due to technical issues/me not catching that I had switched starting and stopping recording when starting or stopping interviews. Out of the about 7 interviews I recorded, intro, outro, b roll, and other footage I thought I had recorded, I only really got some b roll, maybe 2 interviews, and a lot of my feet walking between interviews by accident. He’s obviously upset that most of the recordings were not there, and I was and am very upset with myself about messing it up and ruining this for him. He told me it feels like a big waste of time and money since we don’t have anything he can actually post from the whole event, which I feel is kind of fair. I feel like an absolute POS over it, and I don’t know if there is anything I can say or do to make it up to him or even get him to trust me behind a camera for him ever again. I did apologize but I don’t feel like that even did anything to help him or myself. (Side note: This was someone else’s camera that I have not used before, but I feel I still should not have made a mistake this large) please let me know if you think there is anything I can say or do to help make literally any of this better, I feel so awful about it all.

TL;DR : I accidentally didn’t record interviews for my boyfriend to post on his channels and found out after the game ended. He is quite upset and I am quite upset with myself. Is there anything I can say/do to make this situation suck less?