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
Aghhh!!!! Massdrop! You keep doing it again and again! This option was *last* in the vote count, receiving 2 out of 122 total votes. About 1.6% of all the votes cast. Not even tied for last. Authentically dead last.
"Last" cannot by any stretch of the imagination be interpreted as "one of the most requested". One might, if one wants to skirt the truth without being called out in a lie, say that a keyset in the top half of those requested is one of the most requested but *this* one isn't even close.
I like these keys but to the Massdrop promotion department, I beseech you, in the bowels of the His Noodely Goodness, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, think it possible that you may be mistaken.