I don't know how to not be this person.

Everybody else is wrong. A meeting is for back and forth communication. If they didn't want a meeting, they shouldn't have scheduled a meeting. Just write a memo or something. Everybody has far too many meetings anyways, and you're an asshole if you waste everybody's time on extra meetings that aren't even meetings.

Sounds like this person just won the lottery. Apparently some people absolutely need to see the person that they are talking to, but I personally hate when my job has meetings and we have to have our cameras on. I don't need to see you. Just say what needs said or show whatever on your screen and then let's move on with the day.

Maybe miming that "jerkoff" motion while rolling your eyes was a bit much

Sounds like they don't want this person in the conversation, if they don't want to hear them, see them or know what they think.

If you want my opinion, be prepared to get criticized if whatever you presenting sucks ass. If you don't want it, stop inviting me to meetings and send an email. It's really not that hard.

Inviting only people who support and agree with you to a meeting seems like a great way to run a company.

During our last meeting (where inexplicably 25 people where called to talk), my direct manager had to take a shit. He told my colleague who was sitting opposite of me to excuse him, should he be called while on the toilet (the order was random).

Unsurprisingly, just as he had left, it was his turn. Despite being muted and had no video on, everyone heard me laugh because it was so loud my colleague’s mic picked it up.

I just watched this GQ interview with Sacha Baron Cohen where he says:

In the real world, real people perform like bad actors. Like soap actors.

I thought being able to see reactions is exactly why people are supposed to keep cameras on???

I don't use Zoom, Teams, etc. But I've seen quite a few posts that suggest people hosting the meetings have to ask others to mute themselves or turn off their cameras. Do the people hosting meetings not have the ability to mute the people joining them? Sounds like a no brainer to have that feature.

Say smarter things if you want more positive responses.

Whelp, if you can see what I'm thinking on my face, I guess I might as well say it out loud.

How bad can it be?

The private slack channel I was in with others who had my role would always point out when I started looking angry and annoyed. Heh heh. I hated meetings at that company.

Some of us just don’t have an indoor voice… on our face.

I think you should leave