Thoughts on Direct Flash/Film Look Trend?

Do you love or hate the direct flash/film look trend that’s been going around recently? - You guys feel SOMETHING about this because there are over 120 comments on my post featuring a picture like this! - In the 24 years or so that I have been doing photography I have seen so many trends come and go. Selective coloring, cross processing, a sepia craze and so much more. The film concept was a fun trend, it’s still a fun trend because it brought back the reason why I fell in love with Photography in the first place, the dark room. But seeing this direct flash look come back all over the place is sort of irking me a little bit because I used to shoot like this when I had no idea how to use flash. In a way though, I think it’s a little bit fun seeing what were previously known as photography mistakes become photography trends and of course knowing how to replicate them because hey, I know how to take “bad” pictures too. You’ll get to see a behind the scenes of this photo shoot soon on my YouTube channel featuring the new @profoto clic softbox (though this shot was taken with the #profoto A1X). Dare I say, I actually enjoyed the results... was somewhat nostalgic. Including @robadamsfilms being super creepy in the mirror 😂 What are your thoughts on it all? Model @kaitlyn_covington