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Ying and Yang (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There seems to be a trend on YouTube where people ~~hardcore~~ hardcoded subtitles for the whole video

It's fucking infuriating

[-] ozymandias@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago

Fucking hardcore subtitles... and theyll be dead center over the video, and auto-transcribed wrong.
I think it helps avoid copyright though

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 13 points 1 week ago

And a moving highlight like it’s goddam karaoke. Absolute nightmare.

[-] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Or, even worse, the video shows them one word at a time.

[-] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Another reason not to use TikTok. I don't use it, but I've seen clips from it. I'm not sure what the point is of the subtitles when they zip by, a few words at a time, before you can read them (and I'm a pretty fast reader, so that's saying something.)

[-] conartistpanda@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

To get your attention. I know cause when I find one of these videos the captions feel like a flashing light telling you something important is happening, it's worse than youtube's shitty clickbait because is baked into the video so you can try looking away, but it's so distracting it genuely feels you're fighting the video by ignoring them.

They are also pointless. One word at a time doesn't have any benefit over normal captions, it's just distraction.

They turned an accessibility feature to an inaccessibility one.

[-] GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago

I think it's crossed over from the "attention grabbing" subtitles fashion prevalent in short form video... Subtitles are great as an accessibility feature, and I hope everything can have them, but forcing them on and making them flashy and obnoxious sucks.