Whenever anyone has been quiet for too long, I try to nudge them with “hey, if you’ve been speaking we can’t hear you” - it’s happened to me too many times already

This is also the work from home experience.

“I was wondering how I was able to describe so much of the room without you lot interrupting me…”

The DM uses their mic more than anyone else and may even have multiple groups. While it can happen, i mostly see it with new DMs and usually it isn’t a big deal.

I do agree i see this more in players. It happens maybe every session but im usually quick to call a player on it if it’s something like their turn in combat. Or a player was trying to roleplay with someone else’s PC followed by a few seconds of silence.

That’s a great, novel use of the meme