I watch clips where people can be heard super-clearly on lowly clip-on mics.

There is no reason to hold it in your hand. You’re not Bob Barker.

Compare with the vapid influencerati trash holding their phones like pizza slices and shouting into them and turning the sound uploke they’re on some reality trash show. Telling them that they’re absolutely using it wrongly, that engineers have tuned the mic and speakers for a completely different orientation, is just lost. So I make fun of them.