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FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

YT and TT are platforms that breed weird quirk uniformity. They all grab your attention with the same phrases (“you’ll never believe …”, “what about [insert something outrageous]? Let me explain …” etc.) For a while, everybody had the same Ikea shelves behind them crammed with shit. Then I think we moved on to neon signs. It used to be fashionable to show off your expensive big microphone, probably much to the delight of its manufacturer. And that’s why I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that the manufacturer paid some influencers to hold the tiny mike prominently in the shot like they would hold a dog poop bag filled with poop from a stranger’s dog. And then it was copied.

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jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
They often still have the expensive microphone, but use an unplugged tiny microphone just for the aesthetics.

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- garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I don’t know if this is true but the absurdity is hilarious to me so I’m choosing to believe you.
  
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  - jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I have seen a few you tubers jokingly show that it was disconnected. Because yes, at some point even that became a meme. But I couldn’t find an example off the top of my head.
    
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    vrek@programming.dev ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    So make a new business of selling empty tiny mics… No wires, no circuits… But 20% cheaper
    
    It may work out…
    
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- Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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  There was a time that this was something we made fun of. Now this is the goal
  
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  - BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Is that Al ? (This l is an L, as in AL)
    
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Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I think you're on to something here. I have had noticed that in some channels I've watched where it seems like their room is way too perfect? Probably not the right word, but it's off-setting to see how their environment is orchestrated. Like it's the in-thing to do, so that is their way, a way of conformity. Then when that in-thing is no longer that thing, out with that environment into something else that's trendy.

I would hate myself a lot if I was making videos and had to orbit my life around what a manufacturer, marketer, advertiser .etc wants to see me project.

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- FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Keeping a single corner of a room tidy isn’t that hard, and these are professionals, frequently making some very good money to keep that corner of a room neat and tidy.
  
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