personally i can’t stand it when it’s something i tune in for only for the content and they insist on putting themselves in there to build their own brand or whatever.
it’s like, “dude i came for the fucking spider, show me the fucking spider.”
the character’s chosen times to smile seems to match up with my pet peeve is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Kinda. I do get uncomfortable when someone in a YT video makes eye contact but not to a point where I have to scroll down. Looking away is usually fine.
Yep, I feel this. A few of my favorite narration YT channels have moved from being either colored captions or just background to the narrator standing in front of a camera and making 'eye contact' with it.