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?

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[–] 19 points 11 months ago (9 children)

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

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  • [–] 26 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    There was a time that this was something we made fun of. Now this is the goal

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months 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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