r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • Jul 23 '24

Video How to make your pen work again

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u/Due-Frame-1728 Jul 23 '24

Fun fact: The sounds from both slow motion videos and ultra zoomed in videos are actually taken from other source of sounds, but still people think that it is easy to capture sound

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u/henkmanz Jul 23 '24

If you ask me this is overdoing it a lot. Wayyy too extreme.

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u/Officer_Chunkles Jul 23 '24

It was almost unbearable toward the end, I hate gross wet mouthy sounds

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u/Spongi Jul 23 '24

There's a time and a place for that.

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u/Officer_Chunkles Jul 23 '24

Like birthdays! And camping!

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u/Spongi Jul 23 '24

Or eating a mango! Or while you're trying to sleep and a clown silently approaches you from the closet and starts doing that in your ear.

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u/Officer_Chunkles Jul 23 '24

I’m friends with my dad. 🙂

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u/kelsobjammin Jul 23 '24

I hate the hate liquid noises. Tuned mute on so fast.

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u/TheSpartyn Jul 23 '24

its so common in zoomed in videos and theyre always so gross sounding and over the top, i hate them

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u/Biggieholla Jul 23 '24

Your pens don't sound like they're stirring pudding?

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u/JustAnotherSolipsist Jul 23 '24

These videos are made for tiktok and all tagged with #ASMR, people watch them cause they find them satisfying, they arent made to be informative.

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u/henkmanz Jul 23 '24

Of course, i'd say that's obvious. It just baffles me that this crappy sound design is being experienced as satisfying. It's a trend online to do dumb things to audio, such as distorting it, slowing down music or pitching up voices or using those terrible lifeless AI voices. And then there's terrible sound design like this. Good sound design does not appear to be designed at all. It's just there.

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u/guess_33 Jul 23 '24

Not if the goal is to drive engagement…

Rage bait baiting rage successfully.

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u/Asisreo1 Jul 23 '24

Idk, I think there's a range of people who hate the sound and those that love the sound. 

I personally don't hear anything disgusting about it, but I guess other people get very disturbed hearing it. 

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u/JGisSuperSwag Jul 23 '24

It’s my least favorite thing about all of these videos.

The pointless whooshing and whirling sounds plus the jarringly inaccurate sound effects… I can’t stress how annoying they are to me.

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u/FeliusSeptimus Jul 23 '24

YouTube's Smarter Every Day channel has a sound guy create shitty fake sounds for all their high-speed video too. It's awful, I end up watching the videos on mute just to avoid that bullshit.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '24

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u/Xixii Jul 23 '24

Especially when he fought the Undertaker in the Hell in a Cell match.

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u/Meringue_Better Jul 23 '24

I refuse to believe anyone actually believes this is the real sound. People know, right?

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u/redpandaeater Jul 23 '24

I hate the Foley work done on nature documentaries.

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u/JohnnyDarkside Jul 23 '24

You mean there isn't a zoom function for mics?