Subtitles Should Not Be Optional

[@TheTomeeBear]

NOTE: The title is intentionally provocative - for reasons I outline in the video I can absolutely forgive most channels for not subtitling their videos. Even for bigger channels like Eddsworld, the cost of subtitling is often too high to justify it above other expenses. I'm very lucky that my workflow lends itself to subtitling, not every channel has that luxury. That being said there are companies who will subtitle your videos for you. I have no experience with those companies but Tom Scott wrote a handy guide in the description of this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5DCgI1pj9iCarssi=vnYKkYY-CNjY_Ctr. This was actually the video that convinced me to include captions on all my videos, and I highly reccomend it. If you're a larger channel who can afford an editor, maybe considering buying some subtitles on your next big video.

[@Robotbotters]

the reason ost people dont have them is because they are lazy

[@lancerdeltarune]

i'm not even going to watch this video, seeing the thumbnail though, i have to say that subtitles SHOULD be optional. having at the text at the bottom of the screen as someone who is not hearing impaired is HIGHLY distracting.

[@polocatfan]

​@@lancerdeltaruneableism 💀

[@lancerdeltarune]

@@polocatfan it's ableism to be able to get your ass up and press the CC button?

[@kilpatoo8634]

The wording is being misunderstood here. It's not that subtitles themselves should be mandatory. It's that the OPTION of subtitles should be mandatory. The video is saying that videos should always have the option of subtitles, not that subtitles should always be visible And not be removable. But of course "the option of [cc] should not be optional" is significantly less likely to be effective clickbait, so *shrugs*.

[@P.K.theOrdinaryCommenter]

KZbin used to have “Community Captions” feature where people can help write subtitles to the video. But of course, KZbin just has to discontinue it in 2020 because of so-called abuse and under-utilization. Now we have only auto-generated captions, which sometimes can't caption all words despite the loudness of the video. I feel sorry for those who have hearing-impaired issues.

[@BatzieKun666]

And they Ernst on videos that are different language

[@canwereach100millionsuscri9]

I agree that they shouldn't have gotten rid of that feature but community captions abuse was very much a real problem I never used the feature so I don't know if there was any way to moderate it but it happened a lot, mostly with translating video titles (that was something you could do at one point) to make it say whatever you wanted

[@elmocola]

As someone with adhd it sometimes gets hard to watch a video without captions. They’re genuinely helpful for so many people and we just need to give it more credit. This video was great! I love that someone else finally gets to talk about subtitles. They’re way more significant than people think.

[@TheR3ALPhobos]

As someone who also has ADHD I can confirm this is indeed the case

[@amazingspiderlad]

Personally as someone with ADHD I find it more difficult to watch something WITH subtitles. I find it distracting because I just end up looking at that instead of the visuals, if I wanted to read I would just read a book.

[@elfboy-productionzz6815]

I’m the same

[@LacieAnimations]

Oh boohoo, you can’t watch a video that doesn’t have captions. Either learn to suck it up, or find something else to watch that does. It really isn’t that hard.

[@elmocola]

@@LacieAnimations everyone’s different. Captions help a lot of people, especially disabled people. You can’t just tell someone to “suck it up”. I do “suck it up”. It doesn’t change the fact that captions are helpful and should be the norm. Disabled people exist, dude. Reading the things I watch helps me focus more. If that doesn’t apply to you, then it doesn’t. But it helps me and many others.

[@zutlk]

as someone who is deaf, those subtitles are very important for me. if subtitles don’t exist/invented, the videos that I watching would become very hard to understand everything happens in the videos. same goes to the movies or tv shows. i easily to get bored and overwhelmed if they doesn’t add the subtitles. and i’ll struggling throughout the internet videos without subtitles, but i am grateful that subtitles was here. the subtitles was meaningful to me, so i think it shouldn’t to be ignored. Glad to see you try to encouraging others the creators to add the captions into their videos by talk about the subtitles!

[@fufutu6782]

Yeah but in english the subtitle are really good. But in other language it's really mediocre. If someone say "cheese" it will result in a "computer".

[@Davian2073]

​@@fufutu6782Especially if the language of the video is Japanese, it will never translate correctly, because Google Translate doesn't know Japanese

[@Tiagodp30]

As a Brazilian who can understand english, i don't need subtitles, but i appreciate when videos have it, when the community subtitles was available to make i was making subtitles for these videos, it was a shame that youtube get rid of this feature, but it helps a lot theses auto subtitles for people who speak other languages, its nice to hear that you care.

[@name6953]

I miss that feature 😥i used to make subtitles back in 2019 to make lyrics for peoples songs

[@nautilusfilms2010]

Being someone who may or may not be on the spectrum, captions/subtitles help ME focus on videos better than others that don’t have them or only have the KZbin generated ones. I love your videos not only because you put captions on, but because of what your content is about and how you show it. I can tell so much time, effort, energy, and care goes into these videos and that’s what I love about this channel. Thank you TommeeBear, hope you had a happy new years. :3

[@connor8703]

curb-cut effect in action!

[@Defektyd]

In the immortal words of Tom Scott: "BUY SOME DAMN SUBTITLES!"

[@WabeWilbson]

Thank you so much for this, my sister watches KZbin a lot and is hard of hearing, and I see her looking at inaccurate captions a lot and it’s saddening- I know it can take a lot of time to add them but I really do agree that it’s worth it, and it makes me happy to see somebody speak out about it

[@kittymelody-9]

Mine does too! It’s sad that Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing people don’t get treated like they should. I feel bad for them. 0:52

[@SoupEarthOfficial]

I very recently hired someone to caption my videos, it saves me so much time and he has done at the very least 50 in the past few days, best thing ever!

[@biggestalienhominidfan2787]

This went from the people behind EW helping to a lot of their audience to engage, understand and fully enjoy the series to a lesson about how features with the purpose to help the disable end up helping everyone. This was an amazing essay and from my own words/testimony I can say one of the very main reasons the vast majority of the content I watch being a Mexican and native spanish speaker is thanks to the english subtitles. Been surfing the web since age 4 and while learning to read and write english has been an easy task because of that I am not in conditions or trained enough to fully master the understanding verbally, and the only way I can do so it's by reading along. It has unconsciously helped me to become better at it and it's the tool that has made me truly understand the content I like to watch, so I am thankful for it and for you speaking up on it

[@M0d_O]

I speak English good, but my first language is Italian and so whenever a video has Italian subtitles it really helps me, thank you for making a video on the subject.

[@Nativah._.]

I'm a user who typically uses subtitles on videos because I have an auditory processing issue so having something to read while hearing the speaking is going on makes everything a lot easier and im glad that you and shows like eddsworld and a lot of my other favorite youtubers put the effort into making good closed captioning for people who need them. I'm always thankful for it and even if it should be more commonplace I still wont ever take them for granted. Thank you and thank every channel putting in effort to make good subtitles for their videos for helping people who need them. You're doing the world a good service

[@Eternity485]

I completely agree that subtitles should be put on as many videos as possible especially if they are non frequent scripted videos where you mainly just have to make minor adjustments. I had also never heard of community captions but now that I have they sound like a great ( I'll be it risky ) idea for creators and it's sad that they were discontinued. I am not disabled but I love putting subtitles on for many a reason and this video just helps prove the point in a great way that we need subtitles on more videos.

[@chaus1ku]

Agreed

[@Lulu-hp1re]

KZbin removing community captions instead of just fixing the problem with misuse is one of the worst things they did.

[@Wilker_uwu]

their justification for removing it was complete bullshit from the start.

[@Paddylol]

In 2020 (or so), KZbin removed Community Subtitles from the platform. Personally, I never used Community Subtitles for their exact purpose, as I was one of the people who made subtitles for Alan Becker’s videos (which have no dialogue) after he reacted to people’s comedic captioning of his animations. Although KZbin _did_ add Subtitler as a permission role, most creators forget to use it, the only one I know of being Jacknjellify, creators of BFDI.

[@TheInkTank]

Solid video. Most of the videos on our channel are very long, unscripted ones, so they fall into the difficulties of having accurate captions. But with our selection of scripted content, perhaps it's worth the extra effort.

[@shromblo]

thank you so, SO much for talking about this! I have such a struggle with hearing what people are saying because for me it usually sounds muffled sometimes, which is why I always have captions on when its available. Hopefully bigger channels listen to your advice and start doing actual captions.

[@Ghs6]

nice username

[@MaherandIbrahimsAvengers]

It's not everyday that you see someone praising a KZbin feature lol For my recent 2 videos I did discover how easy it truly was to plug in my script into the subtitle box like you showed before this video came out, after watching it I might go and do that for my videos from 2023-2021 (a lot of my videos pre 2021 where either unscripted or pure garbage) thanks for convincing me dude! Update: All my videos from 2021-now have subtitles, thanks TomeeBear for convincing me!

[@aboxyguy]

i love keeping subtitles on for vids, auto generated or not. apart from how helpful it is when im doing something like eating or cant have my volume too high, it genuinely helps when i mishear words and theyre are a quick way for me to catch what they said without rewinding and hearing again

[@harasen_haras5]

I may not be someone who uses subtitles often, but I straight up find the process of writing subtitles fun. Back when community captions were a thing, I could watch videos I enjoyed many times and get more out of them by taking on the task of translating them into my native language. It's not a very widely spoken language, and most native speakers old enough for KZbin also speak English, so it wasn't certain they'd be used, but seeing something in your native language that's usually in a different one has a charm to it when translated well.

[@NeurozombieX]

I agree fully, captions are really important not just for the viewer but the creator. I use subtitles since i mishear a ton of things so whenever subtitles aren't accurate or not an option i usually click off the video and it can get really annoying at times.

[@kittymelody-9]

I have a hard-of-hearing sister. Subtitles are EXTREMELY helpful for her. I agree with EVERYTHING you have said in this video.

[@kittyvlekkie]

As someone with a hearing disability, which used to be pretty medium-severe but has now gotten better, i still use auto or if lucky, written caption. They make my life easier

[@kumoric]

The great thing about the ability for viewers to submit different-language subtitles, is that it probably would have helped me significantly improve my translation skills, as a language learner.

[@Iluvpotatoes-v-]

Subtitles are a really useful thing for me ! Though I don’t usually use them, a lot of the time I’ll zone out while watching videos or I’ll find myself struggling to keep up with what they’re saying, it can stress me out a ton I can’t thank u enough for providing accurate subtitles that rly help me enjoy your videos just that much more ❤️

[@DoubleTapStudios]

i find that this video is important and i will be adding subtitles to past and future videos

[@TheTomeeBear]

Best of luck with it!

[@thecluckster3908]

When I see a video with great subtitles I always appreciate it

[@UniverseGamerLumi]

PREACH brother, whenever I see a content creator has taken the time to implement subtitles that are at least like 80% accurate, I immediately get a huge amount of respect for them. I don't have any hearing problems nor am I neurodivergent but I have a bit of trouble paying attention to videos sometimes and I like having the captions on.

[@riverscuomo7140]

I appreciate you making the title and thumbnail incendiary so that more people would click it and actually listen to the reasoning that you put in place.

[@Candy_Eddhead]

TOMEEE BEAR POSTED!! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAAY!! And thank you for taking the time to make videos

[@joshuacarre06]

I remember KZbin used to have community captions so it is unfortunate that the feature is no longer around

[@knifekisser]

i have such a hard time watching videos and staying focused on said video, so much so that it causes me to zone out and have to CONTINUOUSLY rewind and rewind until i eventually get frustrated and leave it. subtitles are so so helpful for me and many others like me, and much appreciated too. thank you to everyone, and you, for adding subtitles. if you dont already, please consider it!

[@GDRhythmic]

I've been adding subtitles to my videos recently (although none are released yet) becuase I came to the realization that... Well pretty much exactly what this video is about. Thank you for talking about these sorts of things :3

[@_stardustcolors]

i have auditory processing disorder which makes it difficult to understand what people are saying regardless of how good my hearing is (especially in noisy environments or when someone has a strong accent), so captions are pretty important for me, but i find they're also useful when i'm watching a video while eating at the same time since, obviously, sounds that are literally coming from inside your head (eg chewing sounds when you're snacking or something) are a lot louder than sounds that aren't literally coming from inside your head

[@Okeana_Aster]

Yeah as a french person, the subtitles on video helped a lot, and they still do, even if I speak english pretty fluently now.

[@RingoNoodle]

omg like the reason i love youtubers like the tomee bear and eddsworld is bc they provide SUBTITLES, not only for those who have the awesoem ability (like myself :3) to watch with captions, but also because people with hearing disabilities are able to enjoy watching the show while being able to undrstand the dialogue and context. thank you

[@jan_harald]

the worst thing youtube did, was stomp all over community captions and make it really hard for people to contribute captions for random videos

[@jan_harald]

nowdays it'd actually be rather easy to monitor the foreign subtitles, because y'know...google translate exists...they could simply provide automatic translation to the creator's primary language, to allow proofreading, it would make it so much simpler for the creator to check, as long as they know to not be very nitpicky about the autotranslation quality, and are aware that the auto-translation can mess up perfectly good translations...but you WILL see stuff like whether the inserted bit is a joke, or if it's an actual context filling clue, such as mentioning something is a pun or word-play or refers to something well known in that culture (even full on translation teams struggle with puns and word-play, tom scott actually covered that in a video I think), etc, and hey, if the subtitles sound roughly right, can simply accept them, and people can switch to youtube's auto-captioning if it's bad >;P

[@baka_reeboo]

I actually learned English because of watching Eddsworld with subtitles! Now I am almost fluent with it and still questionning about how it even happend...

[@ITR]

Happy to say I've added subs to a bunch of my videos over the last year, as well as translating them on a few of my vids too.

[@PinkiMiki]

Your video helped me realize how important it could be to caption videos!!! I’m a small animation channel!! I’m always animating and working on projects that USUALLY aren’t script oriented BUT from now on I would like to caption all of my videos accordingly whenever I decide to upload new content!!!

[@TheTomeeBear]

Best of luck with it!

[@tw-game5761]

Thank you for the video and thank you very much for the subtitles, I really need subtitles all the time

[@SF-RANCO]

I was one of those who first watched the video on the Eddsworld channel with subtitles in Spanish and then saw the Fandub made by the community and I appreciate that detail that there are almost always subtitles

[@ARandomCoolGuy98]

You know it's a good year when tomee bear return Happy new year dude :D

[@stuff31]

To quote Tom Scott, "Buy some damn subtitles!" As for me, I try to subtitle my videos where I can. It's not that hard for me, I just feed the script for my video into KZbin's caption system and it cuts it up automatically. It's not perfect but all the words will be correct unless you go off-script at some point, and it's easy to change the script if you do do that. It obviously only works on scripted content but it's literally free, takes very little time and produces decent results that can really help with accessibility. Subtitling is a good thing to do and you will get cookies if you do it.

[@A1t3raPG3D]

Absolutely, what i hear process differently in my head so it's nice that there's a closed caption so i can understand what is being said.

[@jan_harald]

captions are just the simplest thing you can do with the biggest acessibility bump there's also stuff such as descriptive audio, and different audio tracks, that youtube supports, descriptive audio is mostly for blind, or poorly-sighted people, describing everything such as "tom and bom are walking in a park, it is a sunny spring day, tom is wearing a red hoodie, bom is wearing a t-shirt and shorts" and such, and yes you can have actual audio dubbing to other languages also, lol

[@Ghs6]

I don't have any issues with hearing myself, however I still use captions because sometimes I have issues with speaking and it just helps me understand words better sometimes.

[@jan_harald]

it's such a shame that nobody knows you can do wild things with youtube's captioning system, if you use third-party tools, the tamest of which is doing like tom scott videos, color-coding subtitles to whoever's speaking, the wildest are some japanese music videos with text tracking signs in video, jumping all over the place, changing colors, changing font sizes, and all sorts of stuff...and of course they also have a second subtitle track that doesn't do any of that fancyness but is purely lyrics

[@theAxolotlKween]

I’m someone who is definitely more in that starting out point in KZbin and I do my best to subtitle all my videos. I grew up with a parent who’s hard of hearing and I have some issues with audio processing, so I’ve always taken subtitling fairly seriously. I kind of like some of the tedious typing stuff, but I didn’t know that you could edit auto-generated subtitles. This should help a lot, so thanks!

[@lindenbree9188]

Thank you for this. My hearing is fine, but I still prefer subtitles, ESPECIALLY for music when the lyrics are often delivered oddly or drowned out by instruments. Though like you said, the auto captioning is surprisingly good. I remember when it used to be a topic of mockery for how inaccurate it is, but in the past year or so it's improved so much I do wish, though, that we could set the default CC language for all videos. I like to have CC on, but then I'll go to a video that's spoken English, but the only CC is, say, Taiwanese. YT will play the Taiwanese captions since that's all there is, which to me is just distracting. So I turn it off. But then, this turns CC off for every video and I have to remember to re-enable it... until the next video with CC in some random language I can't read. Very annoying. Wish there was an "English or nothing" option. I also miss the community contributions system. Even something as simple as "The uploader must approve the captions before they go live" would have fixed a lot of the issues. I remember, I think it was JackSepticEye, disabled community contributions because fans kept putting random jokes in the captions or self-promotion instead of proper captions. I assume his complaints are part of what convinced KZbin to remove the whole system, unfortunately

[@strwberry_kittenz]

Lol i love how you literally relate EVERYTHING to eddsworld 😭😭

[@xXsillie_sil1nkusXx]

are you sure this video wasn't just an excuse to show us your fav youtubers?

[@djmurray6237]

I rely on captions to watch Japanese and Brazilian KZbinrs, like Cellbit who makes videos about puzzle games, and PDRSAN who makes commentary about japanese youtubers. PDRSAN is actually multilingual and makes subtitles for his own videos in English, and youtubers translating their own videos is really something impressive!

[@SometimesRPG13579]

Watched the video and completely agree with it. Subtitles are really needed nowadays.

[@ponyorunicornorhorse]

Day 1 of asking to talk about Eddsworld nighted doors au and botsworld that are on Tumblr Glad u talked about this, I've already had subtitles on, whether it's wrong or right, a friend of mine who wasn't good at English only got into eddsworld because of the subtitles and now she's improving her English a lot❤

[@OrangePizzaGames]

Auto-captioning will never get puns correct

[@m_s_7_6]

Cool video man

[@rozzzarukon]

to add to the cut curb effect for adding subtitles: it improves reading speed and sentence comprehension!!!! subtitles help everyone!!

[@canalfernandospeededitbras9334]

I'm Brazilian, and the language of Brazil is Brazilian Portuguese, I watch Eddsworld sometimes with a fan dubbing in Portuguese so I can understand, but when there's an eddisode without any Brazilian dubbing, like an old or new eddisode, I watch it with subtitles in Portuguese, --- there are three types of subtitles in Portuguese, - subtitled in normal Portuguese, - subtitled in Brazilian Portuguese from Brazil, - and subtitled in European Portuguese from Portugal --- I not only understand English, I also understand Spanish

[@obsidian_oki]

I always loved how smg4 basicly made a second goofy story in the captions along side there videos sad that they stopped, tho

[@McLeod72012]

As someone who is hard of hearing and has ADHD, Subtitles are important to me, even though I don’t really need them. Sometimes I lose focus on videos, or don’t understand what a sentence is saying, and captions help me figure out what it’s saying.

[@gogothomasandcars8778]

This aged like milk (Proof News)

[@Treeanne88]

When I was just learning English. Watching KZbin videos by jaiden animations or the odd1sout with closed captions helped me learn it and then learn the English language. Heck I don't think I would know something major about myself if I didn't knew english

[@Cluesvlogging12345]

I use subtitles in areas where it would be rude to have your volume up. I would use headphones, however Bluetooth headphones aren’t very good yet and one of those adapters for my phone would look weird. So yes I use subtitles 👍

[@tanukipoptart]

After I watched this video, I went and added subtitles to my videos (the ones that were more reasonable to have them at least, I make animations/map parts so most of my videos are just music)

[@Cloxer]

This feature was the one thing that could've helped a lot of people get into a special kind of media in KZbin videos that usually was restricted to one language unless someone made their own version of the video with subtitles, of the features that google or youtube have killed this one is the most beneficial for everyone along with a few updates to improve the system Companies in general need to stop using the excuse 'Few people use it' when it just means there is an audience or group of people there that can easily expand, it aggravates me because I was doing my part in contributing to a variety of videos that few of them introduced new fans to a pair of series that I like and this was also a pretty nice way to practice translating in the spot, there's something always nice to get from this which again with a few updates the system could've been the closest to being perfect but getting rid of it to let ai take care of it is just quite harmful to go back having some limitations. Killing this feature is one of KZbin/Google major screw-ups that they shouldn't have done in the first place

[@ninjafoxko_fox-devil_4964]

I usually use subtitles to watch the vid without headphones

[@Anonymous-mf2go]

10:25 I have issues really listening to videos sometimes. Captions help. I remember there was a video on Markiplier's channel arguing about the subtitles someone added. Some jokes about goofing around, shipping etc Somebody saying that the subtitles are meant to firmly be the audio and nothing more and the other arguing that its not a big deal.

[@wannonisgay]

I briefly learnt Norwegian for an upcoming holiday as well as doing french in school. It got to a point when having, albeit base level, knowledge of two languages on top of English made it hard for me to decipher what people were saying, especially considering I have autism and tend to briefly zone out of conversations and miss context. Subtitles really helped with my brain registering certain words. For those wondering, I can say some very basic sentences in Norwegian and I have forgotten basically all of the grammar and I completely forgot most French over last summer and I'm taking my exam next year

[@tzarg]

something that really irritates me is when people not only don't add subtitles but also directly put things WHERE THE SUBTITLES GO so you have to get up and pause the video and you have to shuffle everything around, why can't THEY just figure out "hey, maybe we shouldn't put key parts of the video directly in the place which subtitles go!" (I can give minecraft youtubers the exception though, but stuff like YIAY is so irritating in that regard) edit: other things I want to say are that youtube's auto-generated captions are good enough to the point where they catch up words that I COULDN'T! it's definitely improved a lot over the years, but I still think youtubers should add real subtitles to their videos anyway

[@TheTomeeBear]

This is something I'd thought about but decided to cut in the end. Film KZbinrs sometimes put film credits where the subtitles should go, and while I appreciate what they're trying to do, it can be frustrating when you actually do want subtitles.

[@Yami_Soryu]

I watch everything with Subtitles if I can, I don't even remotely need it (apart from subs and stuff), I just like using it; idk how to describe it or why I do it

[@Wilker_uwu]

imo the gold standard for caption editing comes from channels like Moon Channel for using any tools available for moving the captions to the appropriate place on the screen to make it easier to see the content without obstruction, Tom Scott for coloring captions and moving to the context to make it much easier to tell apart the sources of audio, and GMTK for designing most of the visual content to simply not interfere with the default position of the captions on screen. the approaches are many, so there's little-to-no excuse to not providing them unless the video is both completely mute and specifically lacking the justification to include them in the sense that they won't provide anything useful (but where has that ever been the case?) personally, it was a big part for myself learning english, and it still helps me today when i have the issue of just having my brain not register a phrase and having to rewatch things again. written words always makes it easier whenever that happens.

[@DaNintendude]

I've been wanting to put subtitles on my videos, starting with my most recent one. But when I tried, the system seemed very very clunky. I think I've gotta go back and give it another shot, but I just remember being confused and wondering how I could start a workflow that isn't super tedious.

[@DustierScarab]

I miss the community subtitles. One time I was re watching wtfuture and I turned on the Serbian subtitles for fun (I'm Serbian I speak the language) And there were some hilarious Easter eggs in the vid. And I haven't seen subtitles available for the beyond episodes 😢

[@airconditionedstudios1011]

you know what, I'm gonna add subtitles to my videos while I'm in this indefinent inbetween state, where I'm ready to start animating again, but all my equipment is broken

[@L0v3buggg]

honestly i just turn on subtitles because i think its nice not seeing it say [applause] when someone is suffering and dying in pain

[@Ukelectricalani]

what I find weird I watch better with subtitles but have perfect hearing and bad vision

[@EldritchWitch]

One example of the community subtitle thing being very helpful is some of Alan Becker's 'Animation vs' videos There's no dialogue in the videos, as the characters are stick figures but the captions for the videos, for the implied dialogue and actions are very funny and descriptive! Miss them...

[@madyleighcos]

I have inattentive adhd and an auditory processing disorder. I typically don’t need closed captions with KZbin videos, but whenever I do it can be extremely helpful. I tend to use CC/subtitles more with watching adult shows/movies on Netflix or another streaming service because it’s hard for me to understand what people are saying when most of the time the dialogue seems too quiet, people are talking too fast for me to understand right away, or I have a hard time understanding people with accents. This might be why I prefer watching kids shows lol

[@LoraLoibu]

DBZ Abridged has *both* fully-accurate and fun subtitles, each in their own seperate sections (English/Canadian English), which I think is pretty cool

[@Play-Ghost-Trick]

Honestly, Closed captions / Subtitles are underrated.

[@the_internet_pirate]

I am from Mexico and I'm very good at writing and reading English but sometimes I can't understand some words that people say. My point is that I appreciate when the KZbinrs put subtitles on their videos so deaf people and people who speak another languages can use it.

[@catysnow]

I actually feel like adding subtitles will block off some of the bottom part of the video.Who knows?What if some important frames in the video were blocked out by the subtitles after editing.Subtitles also need time,I don't think I'm ready for that now.

[@Monol4t3]

I know the snapcube editors do a really good job subtitling they add Speaker: then what they would say. Because of multiple voices I think it's really good.

[@Tails_and_Luigi101]

Subtitles are very good if your volume is low and you wanna understand what they’re saying

[@CatPCgaming]

I've had subtitles on both on youtube and on tv for most of my life since my mom was hard of hearing. Nowadays I like to have subtitles on since sometimes it's hard to make out what words characters say. I've also watched subbed anime before despite never getting super into anime, dubbed is almost always worse than the original japanese and while sometimes it's good it's usually still not as good as the original.

[@limeeeee]

dude you're speaking the language of facts!!!! love from russia🙌🙌

[@ГеоргийТусин]

Привееет!

[@limeeeee]

@@ГеоргийТусин привет-привет))

[@DiamondKittyCat]

Grian is a good example of good captions.

[@Professionaldumbbass]

The only reason I don’t is because I don’t have a computer so I physically can’t

[@magentialice]

we used to have community captions so other people could add captions to videos it was one of the best accessibility features to exist anywhere and you tube nixxed it because ???

[@Mackery]

my problem is i have 4 people speaking at the same time, its hard to understand for even me to write subtitles

[@RhysH45]

Babe wake up tomeebear uploaded

[@ricsiplays]

i probably gana explore the subbtitles on edd sword in my native language becase of this video becase i didnt think there is a subtitle for my language

[@multitoonvids]

4:50 secs in and I SEE VOLTAIRE!!! And now for a super long explained dialoge on this dude in a cartoon from the 2000's. Did you know that Voltaire wrote a song for the Cartoon Series "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy." (Or "Grim and Evil" before) The song Voltaire wrote for the episode "Little Rock of Horrors" was called Brains and the song was about 5 mins long which was most of the episode. There is a pretty interesting story to the song's creation with Maxwell Atoms (The creator of Billy and Mandy) and Voltaire but I'm not gonna explain that since I don't have much time on my hands. However, for the Special "Billy and Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure", Voltaire wrote another song for the intro of the special called "Land of the Dead." Voltaire in this case is a major part of many of Maxwell Atoms' Projects at times. In-fact, he was gonna write some music for another cartoon for Maxwell but the show never happened. And as the Toonitor, I was hooked to his other songs and thinking everytime about Billy and Mandy with most songs like "When your Evil" and The Skeleton Dance." Now I wonder why Tomee Bear added this to the video?

[@TheTomeeBear]

Eyyy, that's him! Truth be told I recently started watching his gothic homemaking series (after only knowing him through Billy & Mandy) and used the clip because it was an example of speech recognition being good but not perfect (getting the phrase Café Del l'Enfer wrong)

[@multitoonvids]

@@TheTomeeBear Yep, It's great that one thing can apply to another topic. It's something that often happens around many. I gotta say, I might watch the Gothic Homemaking series in my sparetime. Also Happy New Year!! =D

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

you're not wrong

[@DaRelzBoi]

as someone who wants to do scripited videos, this video helped out a bunched

[@Phobosz]

i kinda saw that popular youtubers such as markiplier used to have cc in the past but just not anymore

[@fandomshit]

10:44 What’s this clip from?

[@TheTomeeBear]

Crash Zoom - Orcs & Dorks

[@TheForestor]

Like actually, I don't put on subtitles much but when I do. It is mostly just to understand what the person said in the video. It gets annoying when I put captions and then it is just automated Vietnamese or different languages.

[@the_cube]

4:52 The Lair Of Voltaire referenced. RRRRAAHHHHHH.