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Yea, a double video of you and what you are watching. Select the most degenerate stuff you ever watched.

This would be a nightmare for basically anyone.

This reminds me of the time I experimented with screen recording for self-analysis and productivity. It sometimes captured things I didn't want on video, but I forgot to turn off the recorder while I was deleting the footage. So I ended up with footage of me trying to cover up embarrassing footage.

Has anyone done this as part of a ‘presentation skills’ course? You record yourself giving your talk and then you play it back but sped up a little.

Boy do those nervous ticks appear obvious at 2x. By the end you just want to scream out to yourself “stop touching your ear!”.

This was a requirement in a Speech course I took during community college. Each of my speeches was recorded while I gave it to the class. After each one, I had to watch the recording and write a short paper that analyzed the physical presentation that I gave including my ticks/mannerisms/etc.

Edit: We each brought in our own VHS tape (this was 2010-2011) on presentation day and https://www.svcc.edu/employees/directory/pa-fulfs/index.html would swap them in/out for each speech. Good memories... :)

VHS tapes in 2010-2011?????

This was probably very embarrassing and I'm sorry, but I laughed really hard at the thought of this. Thanks for making a smile this morning.

Personal anecdote; having your most embarrassing moments broadcast widely is good at filtering out all but your real friends. You might even find out some folks are way more understanding than you ever expected.

Those "way more understanding people" are your real friends. Congratulations for locating them!

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