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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.
They often still have the expensive microphone, but use an unplugged tiny microphone just for the aesthetics.
I don't know if this is true but the absurdity is hilarious to me so I'm choosing to believe you.
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.
So make a new business of selling empty tiny mics... No wires, no circuits... But 20% cheaper
It may work out...
The fad has passed. Now the trend is using random objects as microphones.
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.
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
There was a time that this was something we made fun of. Now this is the goal
Is that Al ? (This "l" is an "L", as in AL)
No it's Garth, though his last name starts with Al.
I don't mind the Kallax or Ivar shelves with stuff. It's a cheap way to show what your videos are about.
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 scotch taped to a hammer that's pretty difficult.
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.
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. it isn't any more of an accident, seeing something in the camera frame, than, say, all the times you see an MS laptop and it's logo, or an apple laptop with that logo. or all the coke bottles and cans in movies and tv shows.
If you see a logo, it's because someone paid them to show it.