Mechanical Keyboard Sound Isn't That Simple
Figure 1: I couldn't think of a more literal way to represent this article if I tried... Looking back just a few years ago, there’s no doubt that the huge influx of people that joined the hobby at the peak of the COVID pandemic were drawn to keyboards by way of YouTube, TikTok, and other audio-visual content platforms. Even as the output from these content creators has waned in recent months, their collective impact and legacy on the keyboard hobby is rather firmly etched in the history books. As a result of all of their sound tests, build logs, and opinion videos, the message is clear to any new person joining the hobby: mechanical keyboards are all about the sound. Thock this, clack that. Whether it’s keyboards, keycaps, or even singular switches, seemingly everyone new to the hobby meticulously pores over each component of their keyboard not in an attempt to figure out how it will feel in hand, but how it will sound as they’re furiously grinding their way out from...
Mar 27, 2024
@Sebbe coco "remade" gmk's own "handarbeit design keyboard" from the 80s or 90s and run a gb for that. later he started running this sa style "handarbeit" set but at the same time hindered another guy running his own "handarbeit" style set as he said to the manufacturers that the set was his own colourway and denied "his permission", all while coco had no permission or rights over the colourway whatsoever to begin with. later on he gave half an apology and ignored anything else with the excuse that his english is too bad bad to correctly explain hisself which is kinda funny as its still good enough to run a groubbuy. in the end both gb's could run after the manufactor got informed about cocos wrong claims. /edit:shortened,removed some bs,lol/