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> It's just a guy talking.

Maybe joe_the_user went overboard with calling it strobe light, but this is definitely not "just a guy talking". I don't know how people call this style of videos but it's very tiresome - constantly zooming in and out, full of sound effects (glass breaking, snaring, what not), changing backgrounds, changing lights, everything is just uncontrollably moving and shaking every 5-10 seconds or so.

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The special effects are done as a parody, as you might be able to tell from the fact that his background is a green screen with nothing on it.

His usual viewers will be familiar with his “ML news” videos where the parody is way more in-your-face.

His usual style of video is a rather dry screen capture of him annotating a PDF, so I guess he does it for some lighthearted relief.

The sound effects are not loud though, and you don't have to look at the video to get the information. Some zooms aren't the kind of visual where "eyes bleeding" is a hyperbole of the actual problem, either.

There are valid criticisms that can be made, but they are different from the criticisms joe_the_user actually made.

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