These are the thumbnails of a man About To Do Something.

I am caught up in the Mania of talking about 18th-century literature.

I mean, the deranged thumbnails might get people interested just because they're funny?

how many shirts do you go through in one video

"I love the energy our professor brings to his lecture videos, where he looks like he's about to reach into the screen and grab me by the shoulders and shake me violently."

I mean I actually do have a spare shirt in case I need to record two videos in one day.

I'm just... very good at putting the laptop back in exactly the same place and sitting at the same angle and at about the same distance from the laptop.

This is not a form of mania.

very demure, very mindful

I'm sure setting the laptop just so becomes a kind of muscle memory after a while

It has its habitual spot, yes.