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FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Is that Al ? (This l is an L, as in AL)
    
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    Arcka@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    No it’s Garth, though his last name starts with Al.
    
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- ManaBuilt@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I have to imagine this is the case for a decent chunk of people with those tiny mics, right? Sometimes the audio quality of the talker sounds way better than I would expect from essentially a lapel microphone, and there’s just a regular microphone out of frame.
  
  Not going to lie the tiny mics are a pet peeve of mine like many others in this thread, but I can’t explain it well as to why haha.
  
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- mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’m a big fan of not an engineer, who just uses random objects
  
  not the only person I’ve seen do it, but the first that comes to mind
  
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Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I don’t mind the Kallax or Ivar shelves with stuff. It’s a cheap way to show what your videos are about.

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bluesheep@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
But they are completely nondescript tho, unless they actually name the brand you’ll have to know the mic from sight alone. Which is easy when it’s a shure SM58 or SM7B, but when it’s a tiny lavalier mic that’s pretty difficult.

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