Watched my neighbor drop $400 on a phone gimbal after Jimmy Fallon made fun of phone video, and his old footage looks better

Reese Moore · 2026-09-27T06:10:04.24886+00:00

I keep seeing this idea that phone cameras need stabilizers and fancy add-ons to look pro, and I think that take has aged worse than anything from 2016. My neighbor Marcus spent $400 on a gimbal last spring after some late night host joked that phone video looks like a earthquake, and his clips now have this weird floaty look that screams gadget. Meanwhile the shaky handheld stuff he shot at his daughter's soccer game in Bakersfield two years back actually feels more real and people watched it all the way through. Half the viral clips from protests and street stuff that got millions of views were shot on bare phones with no gear at all. So which old prediction about phone cameras are you still holding onto, because I think the gimbal craze was the real bad bet.

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