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- lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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- lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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Whatever this image is meant to be aside. As someone who relies heavily on captions, anyone who uses this shitty, engagement baiting form of “captioning” can go step on an entire bucket of legos.
Yeah I’ve noticed these karaoke captions (as I’ve been calling them) are extremely distracting and make it harder to actually read, especially when the subject speaks especially fast. I figure there’s a reason regular captions don’t fuckin do that and wish folks would stop making shit like this up and calling it an accessibility feature!
My biggest gripe is it’s largely automated and therefore prone to interpretation errors. It’s lazy and makes me want to correct them but then I have to wonder if it’s just engagement bait. I concluded that even if it’s not bait I still don’t want to add value to a channel with such poor proofreading or editing.
Cant you still turn normal captions on?
Did I suggest that was an issue, that I couldn’t? Yes, I could have nearly 50% of the screen taken up by two sets of captions, one functional and one annoyingly used to try grabbing attention. That certainly is an option. Better than the EA tier “what, you guys don’t have karaoke?” though I guess.
You don’t like karaoke?
That is done for timing, doesn’t do a couple words at a time and doesn’t flash on and then off of the screen immediately in most cases. What am I going to talk in time with whatever content creator? It’s purely done so people can see as much of what’s being said as possible in brief moments they scroll past/hover over the video while it autoplays without audio and to drive engagement. Not for accessibility or readability.
He doesn’t usually have the highlighting so it’s probably some sort of social experiment. He’s written a book on the algorithm.
Yeah, a social experiment to see if his views and click throughs increase. Leading to increased engagement.