Rob Greenlee shows how a bookshelf behind you in videos signals intelligence to viewers, even if you haven't read most of the books. He uses this tactic himself and explains why audiences assume anyone with visible books must be knowledgeable.
if you have like books on a bookshelf behind me, uh, or behind your show, that people will have this implied kind of takeaway that you're, you're, you're literary and you're smart and you're, you know, because you have all these books, right? So you must have read them all, right? So you must be really, really smart, thoughtful, you know, um, kind of knowledgeable and things like that if you have a bookshelf behind you. So, you know, as you can see, I do have Some books behind me here. I'm not a huge, you know, paper book reader myself, but I certainly read a lot.
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