diff --git a/code/__HELPERS/spatial_info.dm b/code/__HELPERS/spatial_info.dm
index b98ff84a2e1..78bc79f1ef8 100644
--- a/code/__HELPERS/spatial_info.dm
+++ b/code/__HELPERS/spatial_info.dm
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
 /**
  * returns every hearaing movable in view to the turf of source not taking into account lighting
  * useful when you need to maintain always being able to hear something if a sound is emitted from it and you can see it (and youre in range).
- * otherwise this is just a more expensive version of get_hearers_in_LOS()
+ * otherwise this is just a more expensive version of get_hearers_in_LOS().
  *
  * * view_radius - what radius search circle we are using, worse performance as this increases
  * * source - object at the center of our search area. everything in get_turf(source) is guaranteed to be part of the search area
@@ -100,25 +100,22 @@
 
 	var/list/assigned_oranges_ears = SSspatial_grid.assign_oranges_ears(hearables_from_grid)
 
-	var/old_luminosity = center_turf.luminosity
-	center_turf.luminosity = 6 //man if only we had an inbuilt dview()
-
-	//this is the ENTIRE reason all this shit is worth it due to how view() and the contents list works and can be optimized
+	//this is the ENTIRE reason all this shit is worth it due to how view()-like procs and the contents list works and can be optimized
 	//internally, the contents list is secretly two linked lists, one for /obj's and one for /mob's (/atom/movable counts as /obj here)
 	//by default, for(var/atom/name in view()) iterates through both the /obj linked list then the /mob linked list of each turf
 	//but because what we want are only a tiny proportion of all movables, most of the things in the /obj contents list are not what we're looking for
-	//while every mob can hear. for this case view() has an optimization to only look through 1 of these lists if it can (eg youre only looking for mobs)
+	//while every mob can hear. for this case view() and similar procs have an optimization to only look through 1 of these lists if it can (eg youre only looking for mobs)
 	//so by representing every hearing contents on a turf with a single /mob/oranges_ear containing references to all of them, we are:
 	//1. making view() only go through the smallest of the two linked lists per turf, which contains the type we're looking for at the end
 	//2. typechecking all mobs in the output to only actually return mobs of type /mob/oranges_ear
 	//on a whole this can outperform iterating through all movables in view() by ~2x especially when hearables are a tiny percentage of movables in view
-	for(var/mob/oranges_ear/ear in view(view_radius, center_turf))
+	//using hearers is a further optimization of that because for our purposes its the same as view except we dont have to set center's luminosity to 6 and then unset it
+	for(var/mob/oranges_ear/ear in hearers(view_radius, center_turf))
 		. += ear.references
 
 	for(var/mob/oranges_ear/remaining_ear as anything in assigned_oranges_ears)//we need to clean up our mess
 		remaining_ear.unassign()
 
-	center_turf.luminosity = old_luminosity
 	return .
 
 /**