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51 points

I am rubbing my nipples in anticipation of the FLOOD of pissed off teenagers who don’t know how to human without sharing their dances now.

…can someone explain the point of overlaying closed captions over the center of the video, but one word at a time fast paced?

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39 points

I’m on the spectrum. I can process reading way, WAY faster than I can process someone just audibly speaking to me. That shit’s actually helpful. I admit, it doesn’t need to be in the center of the video though.

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It also shouldn’t be one word at a time imo

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9 points

I guess, but as someone who’se functionally deaf, I’ll just always be grateful for subtitles.

Beats 80% of other content.

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27 points

Actually captions like that can help you read faster. I’ve seen speed reading training things like that.

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1 point

Ok, but how is it helpful for the general population?

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16 points

They’re not the target audience.

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2 points

So you can doom scroll faster… duh!

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9 points

I don’t understand it either but it’s a product of how people consume the videos in their upright depression rectangles in public places with no volume I’d imagine.

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Yeah, removing the headphone jack and jacking up the price for Bluetooth headphones will do that…

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6 points

Or why the video is of minecraft gameplay that’s entirely unrelated to the voice over and captions?

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5 points

Because it wouldn’t be a video if it just had audio

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2 points

I think that’s to keep you occupied to force you to listen to the shitty voiceover that you’d normally skip. Or I guess the opposite?

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The one word at a time thing is a way to demand more of your attention. It’s just a side path of the old advertising stick where words would ‘pop’ in weird ways. See this video for an example.

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OK boomer.

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