Just in the last few months, it seems like everyone who is doing content creation on youtube (etc.) is holding a tiny mic up, in the frame of the camera.

I get that mics are needed, but a good desk mic or a headset or whatever else you might imagine is just as good acoustically, and far less distracting. And they were all in use up until a few months ago.

Is this just a fashion trend?

  • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
    11·
    7 hours ago

    They often still have the expensive microphone, but use an unplugged tiny microphone just for the aesthetics.

      • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        7 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.

        • vrek@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          4 hours ago

          So make a new business of selling empty tiny mics… No wires, no circuits… But 20% cheaper

          It may work out…