It's harmful to people that have misophonia.
Why do TV commercials and shows amplify eating and drinking sounds?
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- 3+ months ago by Anonymous
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- people, sound, eating, commercial, drinking, tv, commercials, misophonia
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Commercials don't much care for anyone beyond maximising sales. (Might replace "commercials" with "people" and "sales" with "themselves", but that's debatable.)
Personally, I would prefer commercials not to exist altogether, yet it doesn't seem to provide sufficient incentive for them to take a long walk off a short pier. So it falls to me to filter them out. Such is our mutual animosity.
In truth, I haven't noticed; whereas in commercials it's likely intended to elicit craving, in movies it might be that producers are unaware (given that I've never heard of promoting "silent / loud eating noises" in these) - similar to how there's so much violence around which could trigger a person who had undergone trauma. This issue receives public attention due to larger / more outspoken populations bringing it up. That's generally the deciding factor in this scale of distribution (as opposed to asking someone to make less noise personally).
For me, it's shows like the Simpsons and Family Guy, which I love, aside from their eating noises.
I see. Since these are animated shows, it's more likely that every piece of audio would be intentionally pronounced, given the studio recording process - takes additional effort to add simulated distance distortion, which might detract from the clarity of the scene if the imagery doesn't make up for it. If you've ever watched anime, the talking is notoriously reduced to a mere 2 frames of mouth open - mouth shut, the audio's presence engenders the illusion of greater depth.
Moreover, if I'm not mistaken, it's oftentimes played for comedic effect as well.
Personally, I think it could very well be, since Americans do tend to be "gross" when they eat, the animators want to make them as annoying as possible.
I've noticed when watching English dubbed amine, their eating is a lot quieter.
That doesn't surprise me. Japanese culture revolves around honour, politeness, good manners etc, altering this even in a dub would fail to convey the same messages in full (not to mention dubbers are likely fans of jap culture).
The answers are subtle and take a while to explain. Get "Dress For Success" by John Molloy. You will find the answers there.
Short version: Shows and commercials operate on symbols. Everybody knows that commercials for bacon and steaks are lousy without plenty of "sizzle". That is because the sizzle is the symbol of the taste. Sound engineers have always considered clinking spoons and glassware to be the accepted symbols of dinner time. Any dinner time. And so on.
For tv shows though?
I mean, I can mute commercials and have no problem with it, but I really don't want to have to mute my show and miss something.