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?
I like the gimmick of clipping them onto random objects and using that as a mic tbh
I recently saw a YouTuber wearing a yellow smiley T-shirt use the mic as the nose.
I find it obnoxious and distracting.
Then dont watch lol
IDK why but it it annoys the hell out of me, especially given that those kind of mics are meant to be worn on your shirt.
If you’re going to make a career out of media, you should at least know how to use your equipment properly. It’s unprofessional and almost as annoying as starting your video out with “hey guys”.
Take a 101 course on A/V and radio communications at your local community college before you begin broadcasting is all I’m saying. Put in the bare minimum effort before you try to go attracting millions of viewers.
I watch clips where people can be heard super-clearly on lowly clip-on mics.
There is no reason to hold it in your hand. You’re not Bob Barker.
Compare with the vapid influencerati trash holding their phones like pizza slices and shouting into them and turning the sound uploke they’re on some reality trash show. Telling them that they’re absolutely using it wrongly, that engineers have tuned the mic and speakers for a completely different orientation, is just lost. So I make fun of them.
The original tiny-mic legend, Nat’s What I Reckon reviewing the overpriced-boatshow.
He grabs anything kicking around, for a mic-holder. (Find the one where he uses a sprig of rosemary as the mic-holder)
It’s funny that’s why
OK, before asking this question, I was merely baffled. Now after this video, I hate holding tiny mics, hate tiktok and youtube content creators, and hate everything about the internet more than ever before.
No clue. Not really a social person. I can say that for every day there will likely be a new trend starting and an old one dying.
My content rarely has me showing up in it and even then microphones tend to not work very well at 60 feet under water. Then again that gives me an idea, I can take a fake fish under water with an attached fake mic and do a voice over later on for some fun…
