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.
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.)
There seems to be a trend on YouTube where people
hardcorehardcoded subtitles for the whole videoIt’s fucking infuriating
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
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.
Fucking hardcore subtitles… and theyll be dead center over the video, and auto-transcribed wrong.
I think it helps avoid copyright though
And a moving highlight like it’s goddam karaoke. Absolute nightmare.
Or, even worse, the video shows them one word at a time.
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.)
i am too old to understand “hardcore” as a verb in that sentence. what?
typo’d “hardcoded”