YouTube’s captions are often garbled, because, unless YouTubers themselves intervene and manually type out the correct words, they’re auto-generated, the best efforts of a closed-captioning algorithm the company has been tweaking for years. In this bizarre and silent version of YouTube, people don’t ask you to “subscribe and turn on notifications.” They ask you to “subscribe and turn on other patients.” It’s dark.įor people who are deaf or hard of hearing, making sense of videos online can be deeply frustrating, even if the video is captioned, which is now the norm (if not the law) on most platforms. In a recent random sample, the common phrase “You’re on your own” was captioned “You won you’re wrong.” “Ethan has to leave” came out “ether nice to leave.” “Met” became “wet”-and “wedding,” somehow, “lady”-until finally the videos collapsed into unintelligibility. If you rely on YouTube’s captions, good luck. This story is part of a series on how we watch stuff-from the emotional tug of Facebook video series to the delight of Netflix randomness.
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