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.

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

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

This is also the work from home experience.

That’s a great, novel use of the meme