100%. My new boss both has a background that is 'our office open plan area but empty' (he must have taken a photo when the place actually was empty) when he's at home. Plus he now has some greyscale or sepia filter so that he looks like a ye olde ghost for some reason. Not to mention he has headphones where you see these slivers of no background through them around his head.

I asked him if he was using some sort of filter and he was like "I don't like the color of my face in my camera". He stands out like a sore thumb in the grid of people in video in larger meetings now too as the only one not in color and with a weird background (others just blur it which I also kind of hate - but less).

I find calls with him with the video so distracting. I would much rather see his living room or whatever he's trying to hide - and it being real - than this weird fake office thing he is trying to do instead...

Maybe it is a sign of privilege though that I have a spare bedroom with a white wall behind me I can use without background or blur. I remind myself not everybody is so lucky...