ive complained about this so many times in the last five years i cannot comprehend why youtube pulled community captions

whenever i click the cc button on a youtube video that clearly has a high budget and is made by a fucking studio and i see “english - auto generated” i spit daggers from my eyes and mouth at whoever decided to not pay someone to make actual captions

Meanwhile every time I watch a video clearly made by one guy in his living room and it has complete descriptive subtitles, I feel more love in me than I can contain.

Me: Hey film studios can I have some light in these scenes?

Film studios:

Me: Hey can I have some subtitles?

Film studios:

Me: Hey can I have some actual sound?

Film studios:

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I always see calls for subtitles. I never see calls for dubs.

Any time a scene (or entire) show or film is only available with subtitles, it’s inaccessible to many people. Dyslexic, visually impaired, neuro divergent, etc., all need such. But are often left out of the calls for accessibility.

Since so much of our media is digital, it’s really easy to provide an alternate audio track, the same way you can usually pick between languages or stereo vs Dolby. But it’s never done. If you have any issue with reading subtitles, you’re a non-entity.

Whenever you advocate for subtitles, please also advocate for dubbing. They’re two sides of the same coin. Everyone deserves accessibility.

a very sexy thing:

when the subtitles tells you the name of the song that’s playing