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.
There seems to be a trend on YouTube where people
hardcorehardcoded subtitles for the whole videoIt’s fucking infuriating
Fucking hardcore subtitles… and theyll be dead center over the video, and auto-transcribed wrong.
I think it helps avoid copyright though
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.
And they’re always AI generated and that fucking thing misinterprets EVERYTHING!
the moment when the uploader’s subtitle is worse than the youtube auto subtitles