Why are they doing it like this? Could they not achieve the same effect by changing the height and angle of the equipment? Did they want Biden to look like he's sitting on the Cuck Stool on purpose?
"This" is how it's ALWAYS been done.
"This" is the kind of camera tricks the media has played for decades, and learned to do it so well it's second nature to them to set up the gear this way without thinking.
"This" is what every candidate looks like behind the camera when making their ads.
And, "This" is the reason everyone in the establishment hates Trump for walking up on stage and turning off his teleprompter by pushing it over, that kind of "Just go out there" shouldn't work! He didn't even prep himself! And it's because they're jealous THEY can't do it.
They aren't genuine enough to speak from the cuff, and they aren't confident enough in themselves to dare present the "raw" version of them that just rolled out of bed.
We, the public? We're tired of plastic manufactured candidates. Because in the age of internet where photos of the photoshoot get leaked an disseminate as fast as the "preferred" image, and the empty promises can be instantly fact-checked by independent sources, candidates who did it the "old fashioned" way with a team of studio-photographers and speechwriters can't survive. Trump embraces, for better or worse, the fact you don't need the apparatus of media-fluffing anymore, while Biden, partly due to health and partly due to tradition and deference to "the machine" is hooked on it like a drug and couldn't stop if he wanted to.
The march of technology has left the Democrats behind because they never thought they'd have to change, they owned the media, ergo they owned the narrative and the message, and they got big-time complacent, to the point they think they can win with a candidate who has visible mental problems.
They are still using 90's strategies of standing on a riser in front of a flag, or strategic celebrity-talk-show appearances to win on charisma over policy, and it doesn't work
Because, well, Trump the camwhore President is streaming his twerking right from his bedroom to your computer while old Joe is posing for centerfold shots.
Yeah, they look better because they're "professionally done" , but in an era of instant delivery and get-to-the-good-part, his "Pay $5 for a copy next month and wade through 30-pages of tangentially-related to get to the naked chick" style is as obsolete as old
Playboy magazines when Trump is saying "Follow me live on Preztwerks.com, nightly shows, donations welcome!"
They don't know why "the way it's always worked" doesn't work anymore, by and large. The crash of the Hillary campaign in 2016 was such a shock, they still aren't over it. How could 99.9% of Hollywood saying "vote for X" not have an effect?!
And if they have wrapped thier brains around the fact the old approach was obsolete, they can't do better because they're too out of touch to know how to set up a webcam without fucking it up.
Which is why the DNC streams are such unpolished garbage, and Joe can't find the camera some times. "Where's the big thingy I look at? Why would I look at the top of a screen? What camera? I don't see one.... what? That piddly' little thing that looks like my Ritalin bottle? Ha! That aint' no camera! You tryin' to trick ol' Joe like Corn Pop or something? What do you mean be quiet because we were "livestreaming"? I don't go fishing...."
They are cargo-cult tier in understanding the internet while Trump thrives in his "natural" element.
They also don't understand they don't own the internet, despite their buddies in Silicon Valley telling them over and over they do.... so there's no way to bury the gaffes without leaving a bigger gaffe behind when there's obvious holes in your activity timeline because you DFE'd.